I am an Iranian-American, who had no knowledge of Islam up until 6 months ago. My family considers themselves Shi'as but do not practice at all and never spoke to me about religion. I met my husband and he taught me about Islam and the beliefs which made perfect sense to me and I accepted it. I then took my shahadah and began to wear the hijab while he taught me how to pray. I still haven't completely learned how to pray, we didn't pray for most of our marriage just sometimes. He was always advising me and correct me when I was doing wrong yet he did a lot of wrong himself. He abused me and then tried to control me. I fled from him twice this time, inshAllah it is permanent. I know that this is not Islam and that a true Muslim would not act the way he did. Now I am in a different state in the U.S. which I grew up in until I feel safe enough to go back to the area I was living. This place I am at now is very diabolic and all the people I grew up with are drinking, smoking, clubbing, etc. When I came here I took off my hijab imsad. I want to wear it again, and keep learning about Islam but I'm so depressed and weak from the abuse of my husband, it's left me so confused. I don't know any muslims, inshAllah I can meet some good sisters to help me to allow Allah to guide me to the straight path before I go back to the way I was.