Question on perceptions of non-Muslims

[Aliskander]

Thanks to Eesa for the video. Honestly listening to the Qur'an was something I started doing over a year ago just to hear Arabic properly, and when I found myself listening to it just because I liked it, I knew something was going on..

MaashAllah brother your already Muslim inshALlah as you believe in the heart! [according to one valid opinion] and you would formalise that belief by saying the shahdah!

Yeah I think this is true, I think there's a thing inside every human which draws them to it. I can't say I feel the same way regarding Buddhist or Christian beliefs... they're just normal beliefs to me. Islam is something else entirely, it lives within you I believe.

black hair dark skin?; your already half muslim!

Maybe helps our Scottish brother? I'm nearly blonde here.

Thanks for the great words, I wasn't wrong about the realness of the Muslims.

 

[Simple_Person]

Lots of people I know always say I have a mediterian or Arabic look about me:shade:

Brother you luuk laike one of them a-rabs. Bein' all them half black 'n stuff. :Emoji22:

 

[Scottish Celt]

,سلام عليكم يا أصدقائي

I'm interested in meeting Muslims and learning more about the deen. Thing is - I can say that here, but I'm unsure if I could say that in my community. I'm very much an Australian stereotype. I'm 21, working with boats, from rural New South Wales living now in the Capital. 100% Anglo boy. Not interested in giving a biography, but I know of only a few Muslims from University. They're some of the best people I know, but I think that even they would find it bizarre to hear me give this admission. I took up learning Arabic, originally for career prospects. I met these friends in class. I have hitherto been a carefree, fairly shallow-minded agnostic until I started learning more about the argument's for God's existence.

I have been reading the Qur'an (fil-lugha as-sawab, of course) and its just giving me more answers than I thought I'd ever see. I just think its true, and I've learned about how Muslims live this truth out.

The question basically is: certainly none of my family or friends would accept it (no kidding. One might call them 'very kaffir'.) But what would my local Muslim community in Australia, a minority group, feel about me, with my ridiculous country Australian accent and attire, approaching them in interest? Is there a way I should go about it (via my friends first, etc)? May I have to navigate through a bit of judging, in everyone's best guess? It may be something which I have to take up in private for a long time first before I approach any others.

I welcome particularly any stories about anyone else who maybe had this conundrum.

Thanks!

I was just spending this Saturday evening watching YT video's,i came across this,and actually thought about you,a fellow Australian converting to Islam.

 

[AbdurRahman.]

Maybe helps our Scottish brother? I'm nearly blonde here.

nah nah dont worry you will be 'helped' just as much; are you single???; marrying wont be a problem as i'm sure many sisters like blondes too! :Emoji51: