xSharingan01x
TraVeLer
I am a convert ( revert ) to Islam.
My family told me I could fly up to spend time with them,
but my older brother made it a condition I could not
practice Islam - must keep it a secret - while I was there.
I told him that this was pretty impossible, since we pray 5 times a day
and have special food requirements.
And so I have permanently been outcast from my family.
Lost all that support, potentially lost a fortune in inhertiance.
It was the hardest thing I have ever had to do.
It is NOT the ideal - Muhammad commanded us to keep family relations,
but in my own circumstance this just wasn't going to happen.
My dear sir - NOBODY STOLE ME !!!
My decision to embrace Islam was a long process of reading,
deep thought, research and lots of prayer.
I first read Qur'an briefly in high school - and I had a Muslim friend who was kind to me ( I regret I didn't talk with him more about it ).
It was not until recently, at the age of 29 - that I have fully embraced Islam.
This was not a shot-gun decision, it was slow and gradual.
I think the biggest influence in finally reverting was Khalid Yasin lectures.
His explanation & reasoning was just so convincing and in harmony with
what I believed ( I'd love to meet him and thank him ).
NOBODY STOLE ME.
"I made my bed and I will sleep in it".
It is a great regret that I have lost contact with my family,
but I WILL NOT LET GO OF ISLAM for $10,000,000.
I would die for what I believe.
Christians have the freedom to propogate their own faith,
they must wake up and smell the coffee that we will do the same.
We will not be stopped.
Shoaib
Massallah!!
How courages you're!
May Allah bless you out of his bounty.
p.s. Those Jehovas witnesses! I think I've been visited by them at least 10 or 15 times in my new place.
They are so nice and stuff, but I just tell them that I'm muslim, and my believe in god is manifest, so they shouldn't waste their time
Perhaps too harsh. Oh well.
Wylaikum,
shoaib