The Timing of Reverts

[TheHumbleWun]

Salaam,

I was just thinking, when someone reverts to Islam, is there like a milli-second difference where they were atheists? At the point when they object their previous beliefs and at the transition point when they become Muslim.

 

[dianek]

Salaam,

I was just thinking, when someone reverts to Islam, is there like a milli-second difference where they were atheists? At the point when they object their previous beliefs and at the transition point when they become Muslim.

I don't think they are atheists as that would me they believe in NO God! I think it is that they are monotheistic without organized religion.

 

[TheHumbleWun]

I don't think they are atheists as that would me they believe in NO God! I think it is that they are monotheistic without organized religion.

Salaam,

I guess there is no specific word or vocabulary term for that concept.

 

[a_muslimah86]

Salaam,

I was just thinking, when someone reverts to Islam, is there like a milli-second difference where they were atheists? At the point when they object their previous beliefs and at the transition point when they become Muslim.

assalamo alaikum..

I'm going to try my best answering this..hopfully i'll make sense..and be correct in what I'm saying..

I don't think they would be atheist..

because remember?

everyone is born into monotheistic fitrah..and it is the environment that instills other beliefs in individuals..
and also no matter what a person is (i.e. jewish..buddhist..christian) in this life..
when the souls of all humans were created..Allah (swt) asked them..*am I not your Lord?*..and the souls answered *yes..we bear witness that You are* (it's verse 172 in surat Al-A'araaf the 7th chapter of the Qura'an)..

now the verse was to record that Allah (swt) made all soul bear witness to that..so they don't try to deny knowing anything about Him (swt) on Judgement Day..or say that their forefathers were the ones who made them go astray..and all that!

BUT..it would apply to reverts (as I think)..because technically the person..is only *re-acknowledging* or *re-instating* what his/her soul had witnessed to or pledged to acknowledge (basically..the shahada..La Ilaha Illa Allah..There's no God but Allah) when it was first created..

I don't know if I made sense..but it's hard to find the word for it like you said..you have to sort "explain it"..so I apologize if I caused confusion

wa alaikum assalam

 

[Rosheen]

I am a revert and have NEVER been aetheist. If you are reverting from a religion (like Catholicism like I did) and believed in one God already then how can even a milisecond of my life be aetheist???

 

[TheHumbleWun]

I am a revert and have NEVER been aetheist. If you are reverting from a religion (like Catholicism like I did) and believed in one God already then how can even a milisecond of my life be aetheist???

Salaam,

Two derivatives can be pointed:

1) If you believed in God, and always knew that He was without human attributions, and found about Islam, then I can see your point.

2) But, If you believed like most Christians that Jesus is God or a God with human attributions, then as SOON as you reject that God, there is milisecond difference, when you accept Islam and Allah swt as The Creator. I'm looking from the point of rejecting to accepting, for this 2nd perspective. Maybe I'm letting my little brain squeeze too deep into this. Jazakallah khair.

 

[dianek]

Salaam,

Two derivatives can be pointed:

1) If you believed in God, and always knew that He was without human attributions, and found about Islam, then I can see your point.

2) But, If you believed like most Christians that Jesus is God or a God with human attributions, then as SOON as you reject that God, there is milisecond difference, when you accept Islam. I'm looking from the point of rejecting to accepting, for this 2nd perspective. Maybe I'm letting my brain squeeze too deep into this. Jazakallah khair.

UMM.....I was Southern Baptist and never understood Jesus was God, I never inferred that in any sermons....there was GOD and there was Jesus his symbolic Son.......to me Jesus was never God......so there was never any rejecting "GOD" for me.