Share your funny convert stories

[JD19]

We all have done some funny stuff, unintentionally...

Heres my story:

I walked into the mosque to do Asr prayer. A brother appraoched me and asked me to pray alongside him. I stood on the left and he stood on the right. He started saying some pre-prayer things in Arabic. Once he finished there was silence and we stood there shoulder to shoulder. I was waiting for him to begin the prayer BUUUT since I was standing on the left, I was supposed to lead the prayer and he was waiting for me to begin. We both were standing there in silence for a good 2 minutes until another brother that I knew came up to us and told him I was a new Muslim so we then got someone to lead both of us....

Im gonna look back this moment and always laugh...

 

[island muslim]

Salaam Alaiykum bro JD19,


LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL hahahahahaaha ... thats funny bro!

 

[um muhammad al-mahdi]

mash'Allah!

:salam2:

very funny :ma:

About my past as a "new muslim" I don't remember anything in particular.
But if I think at the way I used to wear the hijaab,with lots of safety pin,being scared to loose it.....I feel very shy:shymuslima1:

....but it's funny now!

 

[Libinette]

Subhanallah, thanks for sharing, this was really funny, i just can imagine the scene!!!!

 

[hqudrat]

:salam2:
thanks for sharing this with us! this is really funny.



:tti_sister:

 

[qadra-sagal]

Asalamu aleykum

Subhanallaah this really make me laught jezakallah kheyr brother for sharing with us.

 

[wannabe_muttaqi]

:lol: i could picture it how funny it was

 

[Abdul Hasib]

wOw that's a funny story brother!

 

[kayleigh]

The first time I went to the mosque, I went with a girl I had just met - we were set up by the Muslim family that has sort of taken me in and have become my mentors. I lost track of how many rakats we had done, and I went to stand up when I was supposed to remain kneeling. She slapped my hand to keep me down and I was so embarrassed. When we were finished I turned around and all the older women were smiling at me and a few were laughing. I was so embarrassed.

There's nothing that funny, just a lot of awkward and embarrassing moments.

 

[jabba]

Same here nothing funny, just uncomfortable....the feeling of not knowing what I'm doing and no one helping me is not fun... I always copied the person next to me while in the mosque

 

[kayleigh]

^ Same. At first I just did what the person next to me was doing.

This is sort of more cultural than religious, but it's the most embarrassing Islam-related story I have to date:

I know an older Muslim woman who is like a second mother to me. I've been to her house for meals before and everyone is very casual. She invited me over for dinner one night, so I wore what I would normally wear. When I got there, it turned out to be a semi-formal dinner party and all the women were very dressed up. I was just wearing jeans and a sweatshirt and to top it all off, the only person who would speak to English to me wasn't anywhere near fluent, and the women who were fluent would barely say two words to me. I thought it was very rude, especially since the hostess only spoke Arabic and English and they wouldn't speak to her in English at all so she sat through the whole thing not being able to say a word! Overall it was quite a disaster.

 

[junaid hasan]

The first time I went to the mosque, I went with a girl I had just met - we were set up by the Muslim family that has sort of taken me in and have become my mentors. I lost track of how many rakats we had done, and I went to stand up when I was supposed to remain kneeling. She slapped my hand to keep me down and I was so embarrassed. When we were finished I turned around and all the older women were smiling at me and a few were laughing. I was so embarrassed.

There's nothing that funny, just a lot of awkward and embarrassing moments.

sister this kind of situation is available to see by the young boys in the mosque.(some time also some older person who are thinking about world during their prayer).specially during ramadan prayer because its long and people forget how many rakaat is allready past.

 

[mymohsin]

Salam Brothers/Sisiters,
JD19 ur thing is really somthing make me smile. Jazak Allah for sharing this and giving us a

Allah Hafiz.

 

[kayleigh]

sister this kind of situation is available to see by the young boys in the mosque.(some time also some older person who are thinking about world during their prayer).specially during ramadan prayer because its long and people forget how many rakaat is allready past.

I was really nervous too and it was the first time I had prayed around anyone else and it was just after I had converted and started praying. I knew when I was supposed to stay down but I was so nervous and was focussed on following what the other girl was doing because I didn't know if I was praying the right way in the first place.

 

[wanaziz]

:muslim_child:

salam... my brothers and sisters

i love u all....
hope we can meet in jannah.. insyaallah...

 

[Sister_X]

We all have done some funny stuff, unintentionally...

Heres my story:

I walked into the mosque to do Asr prayer. A brother appraoched me and asked me to pray alongside him. I stood on the left and he stood on the right. He started saying some pre-prayer things in Arabic. Once he finished there was silence and we stood there shoulder to shoulder. I was waiting for him to begin the prayer BUUUT since I was standing on the left, I was supposed to lead the prayer and he was waiting for me to begin. We both were standing there in silence for a good 2 minutes until another brother that I knew came up to us and told him I was a new Muslim so we then got someone to lead both of us....

Im gonna look back this moment and always laugh...

lol, now that is really funny.

 

[q8penpals]

Assalam aliekum

You can chalk my funny story up to a cultural difference also...

Americans are known for their large circle of personal space...so, when my husband and I went for Umrah, it was my first time praying in a mosque.

It was before the prayer time, so I was sitting nicely in the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, readin the Qu'ran (in English). The call came and all the ladies started standing and lining up, so I followed suit.

The lady next to me scooted up close until we were touching shoulders...so I took a step to the right, then she scooted up again, so I stepped over again. She looked at me, shrugged, and didn't move.

It was only AFTER when I was telling my husband, "Geez, this crazy lady was LITERALLY touching me during the prayer - she wouldn't back OFF!" that my husband said, "Oh, yeah, you are supposed to be touching the person next to you when you pray in the mosque." I told him, "Gee, thanks a lot! I thought SHE was the crazy one, and she is probably telling stories about the crazy white lady she was standing next to!"

Lana

 

[Bawar]

q8penpals, jazakallah khair!
honestly, i couldn't stop laughing

 

[UmmOf3]

Salaam aleikum

Not mine, but my husbands...

The first time he prayed in Jamaat, at the end, they all went "Salaam aleikum warahmatullah..." and he turned to the guy next to him, saying "Wa aleikum salaam" lol

 

[abdellah007]

salam

The first time I went to the mosque, I went with a girl I had just met - we were set up by the Muslim family that has sort of taken me in and have become my mentors. I lost track of how many rakats we had done, and I went to stand up when I was supposed to remain kneeling. She slapped my hand to keep me down and I was so embarrassed. When we were finished I turned around and all the older women were smiling at me and a few were laughing. I was so embarrassed.

There's nothing that funny, just a lot of awkward and embarrassing moments.

lol this may happen to anyone sister.