Brother Dominick,

I pray Allah keeps giving you patience and strength and guidance to your in-laws. Keep praying and remembering Allah, for He will never allow the believer’s good deeds to be lost.

Salam @ all

yes..discriminating people is not good – whether they are muslims or not..avoiding evil is ok – but to give muslims an evil attribute out of envy is not ok..do not forget – devil is arrogant. so do not die with that sin and give yourself and other muslims and non-muslim a chance for Islam.

Sister Dana, Assalamu Alaikum,
That is such a rude and ugly statement. Something in your heart makes you think and feel that way. According to Allah, Islam and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), all Muslims are equal. When you think this way, you are cheating yourself out of many blessings. EtaqAllah!

May Allah forgive all of our sins

“Our Lord! Punish us not if we forget or fall into error, our Lord! Lay not on us a burden like that which You did lay on those before us (Jews and Christians); our Lord! Put not on us a burden greater than we have strength to bear. Pardon us and grant us Forgiveness. Have mercy on us..”

May we muslims keep on reminding each other in doing good deeds n sabr

Aamiin Allahumma Aamiin.

It’s simply a logical assumption. How could/would someone change path without knowing about the path first? So as you can see it’s a logical assumption to make. It is assumed that when someone changes path (I don’t like the word convert or revert. it’s not a metamorphosis) that the person has studied the deen and done his/her homework in order to be sure of their decision, and as such knows at least the basics of the deen to go forward and learn the details as they go along just like the rest of us do. Nobody knows everything. We all learn as we go forward.

And it’s mainly out of curiosity that people want to know what led a person change path? Changing faith/belief is a heavy thing and big deal to do. So the mind gets curious as to what mind-blowing reason/event have caused such a big change of heart (yes the change is from Allah but Allah makes something/someone as the cause). So don’t get annoyed when people ask your story. On the contrary, maybe your story will inspire them to change for the better and improve their deen. Isn’t that a good thing? And perhaps you may be new but your deen/faith may be stronger and better than the “raised-muslim” sitting next to you whom you can help. So don’t assume they know/are better than you, and under the same token don’t assume you know/are better than them. Share and find out.

I avoid reconverts as much as I can- they act like the ummah owes them so much for their conversion. Big deal on being different- arent we all?