How did you revert?

[amatul_rahmaan]

ma sha'allah you must be such a person to be convinced in two month

[Muhammad Abdullah]

mash'Allah tabarakullah this forum has so many people from non-Islamic households

[Muhammad Abdullah]

Wallahi Islam is the most beautiful gift one can ever receive. I cannot believe I have received it subhan'Allah!

[modest_muslima]

ma sha'allah you must be such a person to be convinced in two month

It's not me but it's the fact that Islam is the truth - it's as simple as that.
Islam is a gift from Allah and not everyone has been chosen.

I was speaking with a non-muslim friend the other day trying to explain the feeling you get from being Muslim, but it's nothing you can describe, it's just something you need to experience yourself - i'm sure people know what i'm talking about!

[UmmRashid]

Yes i knowwhat you mean

Before when I wasnt practising as much I knew I shold have been more, but i am ashamed to say a part of me didnt want this. Why? because sadly I saw practicing people as being boring and/or having boring lives (mind you my life was really boring anyhow!). I think this is a trick of the shaitan, to make people think that you cant be happy when you are practicing, i thought they were so serious etc. For me the first step was to wear hijab, it wasnt an easy decision to make and although i wanted to do it for te sake of allah, a part of me didnt want to do it. What I did was make dua that allah would 'remove' that part and make me want to wear it, alhumdulilah not long after that i did.

The point i am trying to make is that since wearing hijab and slowly practicing more I have never been happier. It was vastly different to how i thought it would be. Wearing hijab was one of, if not THE most positive thing I ever did,and ever since I started taking more steps towards Allah i have been so much happier and at peace. I know the words "happier and at peace" dont do the feeling justice, but its the most beautiful feeling in the world!

[mhussain]

sis ummRashid,
suppose u ask ur sister or wife to wear a hijab and she does but u feel that she doesnt want to....what should one do?

hussain

[UmmRashid]

Assalamu alaikum,

I'm no expert but what i would do firstly is to make dua to allah to put love in her heart for it, because of course nothing can happen without the will of Allah swt, so if we want something the first thing we should do is ask allah. Secondly we need to look at the reasons why she does not want to (i am of course assuming the feeling here is correct). Is it because it makes her feel strange? Is her iman weak? Is it a combination of the 2? Begin by socialising with practicing muslims, that way she can be surrounded by practicing muslims all or at least most of whom wear hijab, she will then not feel so strange. It would also be good for her to attend classes and gain knowledge to help her to strengthen her iman. Insha'allah all of this would enable her to develop a love for hijab.

[mhussain]

shukran ukhti

Hussain

[lailahaillallah]

i got into islam in a kinda strange way but i guess similar to some. i wrote this up here a long long time ago, but i'll put it up again, maybe someone will enjoy it.

i dont know if anyone has seen the movie "football factory' but i was tommy johnson. my life consisted of drinking, music, women, clubs, sports, any drugs i could get my hands on and occaisionally beating the crap out of someone. (us men dont find it hard to find reasons?)

basically, shortly after 9/11 i heard some rapper say something islam and allah, i think me and one of the brothers on here had a discussion about this before, so i wont go into it.. it was rap, crude/violent/etc like any other except the rapper is muslim. some might argue he's not but i'm not qualified to make takfir.

so anyway, the particular verse in this song was something like "the grim reaper, its all nature, and every word from allah is on paper." and i'm like "hmmmn... you know this guys right.. them muslims they've got that quran thing, right? i should check it out...particularly in view of the fact that a rogue group of them has been has just been the first people to ever sucessfully attack continental USA"......

so i found a translation of the quran online and i started reading, thinking i was only gonna read a chapter or two and i'd be over it. 6 hours later i look at my watch and realise i'm still reading. whoaaa this is intense stuff, pretty interesting. so i read and i read for about a year. every spare moment i had was spent reading about islam. reading what the scholars said, learning about islamic beliefs and islamic history and conversely, reading about what the kuffar say about islam, islamic beliefs and islamic history. shoot me for being a skeptic. that in itself delayed me reverting a long time. the kuffar really no how to twist stuff, falsify, over-exaggerate, lie, partially-quote etc aoodubillah

anyway, once i'd decided i'd found satisfactory answers to the troubling questions i had, about issues like slavery, various assasinations you find the sira, etc.. i realised a few other things. every problem i'd had in my life was a result of my lifestyle and actions. for example, bad breakups, fights, drug-overdose, etc. now if i'd been muslim and had been following the quran and sunnah, .... NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THOSE THINGS WOULD HAVE EVER TAKEN PLACE. all the things that hurt me so much (now only a tough man can admit that ) would have never happened. that in itself was a mind blowing revelation. but ohhh no, it was gonna be a double whammy..

i'd been raised as a catholic and attended church weekly till 16 etc (when i went down the wrong side of the tracks) and i'd always had a belief in god but had found too many contradictions in church doctrine, the gospels, the writings of paul etc. evey question i had about those contradictions and beliefs etc was answer by allah swt and the prophet. every single one. infact, when you spend a lot of time examining the quran and the hadith/sunnah... you can look back on the bible and see every little falsity in it. in one gospel jesus will say something that clearly fits in with islam, yet paul (who never met jesus) came along and abrogates it. for me at that time: ASTOUNDING!

when you combine these two things with the fact that i didnt have to completely eradicate my beliefs, only alter them and add to them, islam suddenly became a very attractive prospect. infact... i completely lost the ability to sleep at that point. i'd go literally about 72 hours between sleeping. i used to spend the sparetime at this point staring at the shahada on my computer screen dying to say it yet not being able to. i felt physically ill. one day after about 3weeks of this i gave in and just said it. allahu akbar 1000 tonnes lifted from my shoulders.

ramadan this year will be my 3rd i think. although it feels like my 4th considering i spent so long studying and believing in islam before i could actually say that most wonderous of sentences.

[umm_mohammed]

Assalamu alaikum

Jazak Allah for sharing bro.

By the way, good to see you on line again Especially on a different forum hehe How's Canberra treating you these days?

[lailahaillallah]

what... who are you? i dont know what you're talking about... :\ subhanallah (ie: thankyou, yeh they banned me whoops , canberra is treating me worse than a bowl of buttered chicken in lakemba)

[Muhammad Abdullah]

for a different way to tell the convert story... may Allah bless your islam

[MoslemHeart]

Alsalamo Alikom wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakato

Man ..it's wonderfull story ...no matter how long it is ...it's wonderfull

[amatul_rahmaan]

honestly you are scary and i was thinking "poor sister who will agree about marrying you" and then you said you are married

elhamdolelah you have changed and i'm hoping that you got ride of all bad habits BUT there's still one which you still have or maybe you have a little of it.

it's Argument. look at your threads and how you argue with other members and it's clear that you are proud of wining the argument or making poeple give up on arguing with you. try to let it go and in sha'allah your life will change more to the better.

remember the prophet said, i can garantee you a house in Jannah for whoever didn't argue even if he was right.

fe aman ellah

[AmeenahY]

Assalamu alaikum,

I loved your story. Subhan'Allah. Apart from the fighting bit, I found a lot I could relate to in my own reversion - maybe it was the Catholic upbringing, I don't know.

Sis amatul rahmaan, he does love to argue still. But at least he is arguing for Islam.

I think the thing about arguments on this forum is generally that they occur because people are so passionate about Islam and the way of truth. So in a way, they occur just because people want to be the best Muslim they can be. I don't think these arguments occur just for the sake of argument, 'though they sometimes lack a bit of wisdom. Allahu alem.

Anyway, alhumdullillah you are Muslim brother Musa. It was a great story masha Allah.

Wa alaikum salam,
Rachel

[WoeUntoThee]

honestly you are scary and i was thinking "poor sister who will agree about marrying you" and then you said you are married

elhamdolelah you have changed and i'm hoping that you got ride of all bad habits BUT there's still one which you still have or maybe you have a little of it.

it's Argument. look at your threads and how you argue with other members and it's clear that you are proud of wining the argument or making poeple give up on arguing with you. try to let it go and in sha'allah your life will change more to the better.

remember the prophet said, i can garantee you a house in Jannah for whoever didn't argue even if he was right.

fe aman ellah

Mashaallah sister! What a keen eye you have to pry out the faults of this brother and flaunt it in public so we can all learn.

Go get em tiger

[amatul_rahmaan]

Mashaallah sister! What a keen eye you have to pry out the faults of this brother and flaunt it in public so we can all learn.

Go get em tiger

i'm not sure what's the meaning behind your words but i know that i'm not happy with the word tiger and it's pretty weird to be called like that twice in one week and i doubt that you are the same person who said it before

brother Musa, it's ok. i got scared for the first few minutes but i got over it after that elhamdolelah.

anyway, even though what you said about the forum is right but trust me if you tried to avoid arguing you will be the winner with Allah.

welcome to islam brother

[WoeUntoThee]

i'm not sure what's the meaning behind your words but i know that i'm not happy with the word tiger and it's pretty weird to be called like that twice in one week and i doubt that you are the same person who said it before

I guess that makes u a tiger.

[amatul_rahmaan]

did you feel better after saying it again although i said i don't like it.

[MusaBanned]

Ok, thats enough, break it up!
We are united in Islam, lets keep it that way!
The shaytaan is even on this forum, trying to get us to argue about silly things like lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!
heheh, who got that one?