salamu alaikum
hello brothers and sisters my name is john.
last night i did shahada.
this is a bit of background on me: last year i met a guy who is my best friend and basically a brother to me at school. he is a muslim and at the time i was agnostic. i became interested in islam after meeting him and i began to ask him lots of questions. the more questions i asked the more attracted/interested in islam i became. so i continued asking questions to other muslims as well and doing research on the internet. then once i read about all the scientific facts proven in the quran i had no doubt that islam is the true teachings of god. so it was probably 3 months ago that in my heart i accepted that allah was the only god and mohammed (PBUH) was gods final messenger.
so i asked for some advice off some of my fellow muslim friends whether they thought im ready to do shahada or not, and all of them were convinced that i was more than ready. so i went to his lecture which i sometimes go to where i talked with the shekh for about 30-40 mins then near the end of the lecture i did my shahada.
while i was waiting to do shahada i was really nervous and scared. then once i did my shahada everyone welcomed me and gave me cakes and chocolates which was very exciting. so after the lecture after talking with many people for hours i went home.
but today Im worried about whether what im feeling is normal. today i didnt really and still dont feel really much different to when i did shahada and i actually still have a bit of fear (i think because its something completely unknown to me), and quite emotionally drained.
also my family doesnt know ive done shahada but they know that ive become interested in islam but aren't very supportive of the idea and keep telling me stuff to scare me/or put me off.
so to my question, is how im feeling normal? and did anyone else have this type of experience? if so how did you deal with it.
any opinions and comments will be greatly appreciated. alhumdillah!
hello brothers and sisters my name is john.
last night i did shahada.
this is a bit of background on me: last year i met a guy who is my best friend and basically a brother to me at school. he is a muslim and at the time i was agnostic. i became interested in islam after meeting him and i began to ask him lots of questions. the more questions i asked the more attracted/interested in islam i became. so i continued asking questions to other muslims as well and doing research on the internet. then once i read about all the scientific facts proven in the quran i had no doubt that islam is the true teachings of god. so it was probably 3 months ago that in my heart i accepted that allah was the only god and mohammed (PBUH) was gods final messenger.
so i asked for some advice off some of my fellow muslim friends whether they thought im ready to do shahada or not, and all of them were convinced that i was more than ready. so i went to his lecture which i sometimes go to where i talked with the shekh for about 30-40 mins then near the end of the lecture i did my shahada.
while i was waiting to do shahada i was really nervous and scared. then once i did my shahada everyone welcomed me and gave me cakes and chocolates which was very exciting. so after the lecture after talking with many people for hours i went home.
but today Im worried about whether what im feeling is normal. today i didnt really and still dont feel really much different to when i did shahada and i actually still have a bit of fear (i think because its something completely unknown to me), and quite emotionally drained.
also my family doesnt know ive done shahada but they know that ive become interested in islam but aren't very supportive of the idea and keep telling me stuff to scare me/or put me off.
so to my question, is how im feeling normal? and did anyone else have this type of experience? if so how did you deal with it.
any opinions and comments will be greatly appreciated. alhumdillah!
