dear Muslims, how did you become Muslims?

Question

tell me your story and what was your religion before Islam?
and what do you like about being a Muslim?
for me luckily i am Muslim by birth
i love every thing about islam specially being free that i am not a slave for any one but Allah and i am broud to be his slave

Ex-Muslims you do not know any thind about Islam so stop fighting ut if you do not want it

Ex-Muslims you do not know any thing about Islam so stop fighting it if you do not want it

Answer 1

Since my reversion to Islam from Christianity on 1st Ramadhan 2001, I have not been in contact with my mother's side of the family...this was not through my own choice, rather I was cut-off, disowned, whatever you want to call it as a result of one individual from the family poisoning the rest of the family against me and against the religion I had chosen - ISLAM..... let me explain.....

I met the man, who is now my husband when I was a non-practising Christian ( I didn't go to church and stuff)....as we got to know eachother, I began to learn more from him about his religion -Islam. As time progressed I began to buy books to read so I could start to understand more about this religion, eventually this lead me to buy an English Translation Qur'an. I want to stress at this point, that in no way did my husband force any doctrine on me, he simply answered any questions I asked honestly and sincerely.
At this time, I began to have strong feelings towards Islam, many things began to come clear to me -Alhamdulillah - and it was after reading Surah al Ikhlas (112) that I realised Islam was the truth, I had never felt so strongly about religion or God before until I read this Surah.
After discovering that I was inclining towards Islam, I began to make some changes in my life, for example I cut out pork products. My mum and stepdad thought I was stupid for doing this....at this point I hadn't told them of my interest in Islam....so when they asked me why I wasn't eating pork, I said I was doing it out of respect for my husband (although remember I was not married to him at the time).
As time went on, my mum and stepdad began to make things difficult for me - they didn't want me to see my 'boyfriend' as he was at that time for two reasons... one because he was an asylum seeker when we first met and second, because he was Muslim.
One day my stepdad caught me reading Qur'an in my room and he took hold of it violently and told me to get it and all my other books on Islam out of the house..... I guess they thought that if I couldn't learn, I couldn't become interested.....but they were too late - I had already seen the truth of Islam -Alhamdulillah.
As the 1st of Ramadhan 2001 approached, I had decided that I wanted to take my Shahadah, and before dawn on 1st Ramadhan I had decided I was going to make my Shahadah and take part in the fast.......I hadn't told my mum and stepdad any of this and I still had no idea how I was going to explain to them why I wasn't eating and drinking......but -Alhamdulillah- you will find out shortly how Allah made this easy for me.
I made ghusl as described in a book I had read. Then I stood near the window in my room where I could see the night sky....I had no idea at that time about the direction of the qibla, but I knew in my heart that Allah would hear me..... So on that Ramadhan dawn I humbled myself before Allah, I didn't know how to pray in the way we pray as Muslims today, but I simply stood and told Allah what was in my heart, I declared my Shahadah and I asked for help and guidance.
Later that day, I went to visit the man who is now my husband ('A'), but just as I arrived I received a call on my mobile phone... it was my mum and stepdad... they told me that at that very moment I had to choose between them or 'A'..... can you imagine being put in such a position....how can someone choose between family or the one they love!!......anyway, I said 'If you are going to force me to choose then I choose 'A', so they told me I had half an hour to collect my belongings and get out.......so that was how it all began for me....
I was free from the 1st of Ramadhan 2001 to practise my religion and to complete my first fast without obstacle or obstruction - Alhamdulillah - and I was now also free to marry this Muslim man and begin my life as a Muslim
Once I had moved out and married my husband, things began to get difficult between me and my family, and I don't just mean at Christmas time.
When I would go to visit my family, they would deliberatly cook pork products and continuously interrogate me about my religion......they were convinced my husband forced me into the religion and nothing I said could convince them otherwise. They also made jokes and jibes about me turning up in hijab, but alhamdulillah, this only made me stronger and more determined.
Eventually though I began to feel less and less welcome when I went to visit them and my husband had given up visiting them along time before. I continued to visit because my mother had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and I hoped there would be some chance to patch things up.
After my mother had passed away, things were at their most difficult because my stepdad was free to poison the rest of the family against me....he phoned me and told me there was no point me attending the funeral because I wouldn't be welcomed. I was confused at the time about attending the funeral, because Islamically it wasn't correct and because I had been told that I wouldn't be welcome anyway.
So, I stayed away from the funeral and I later found out from a 'neutral' (for want of a better word) aunty that the family wanted nothing to do with me because I didn't go to the funeral, they didn't actually know I had been told by my stepdad not to bother because I wasn't welcome!!
So since that time, I have had no contact with the family, I have tried writing a few letters to my grandfather to try and explain things from my viewpoint, I have been told by my aunt that my grandfather has received my letters but he wants nothing to do with me.....after all this time and much deliberation, I have decided to write to all the members of the family to try and explain things from my side. They don't realise that I chose Islam for myself and that I have never been happier since. They have never made an effort to contact me, but I feel it is my duty and obligation as a Muslim to try and retie the ties of kinship and inform my family about Islam.

May Allah make things easy for us, may he guide us and our families to the straight path and make us all live and die in a state of Islam. Ameen

Answer 2

Good question. When did Peking become Beijing? When did Mao Tse Tung become Mao Zedong? Moslems in really old books are called Musselmen. For that matter when did Burma become Myanmar? Myanmar sounds like a beach resort. Who is the superhero in Islamic comics? When did American Indians and Blacks become Native and African Americans. Does that make me a Euro-American? Maybe I should just go back where I came from, but I don't think they will let me without a passport.

Answer 3

Subhan Allah!

Friends were my Inspiration (after so much time passing) but mainly, GOD open the doors for me and put me on the path towards Islam, which I eventually accepted! I did like a guy who was muslim, and at the time I was Christian (which being christian is totally accepted in the Quran as well as Jews) but not because of some guy......no guy has ever told me to "become muslim"not even that guy, and he still doesn't know that I am muslimah to this day! But hey some people are guided through from the opposites of genders?????? All ways are rewards from GOD
Being Muslimah I am proud to announce it because my faith has become way stronger, I am happier than ever, filled with Inner Peace and I am closer to GOD than ever and none has the right to be worshipped but GOD alone!!!!!!

AL HAMDULILLAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

i was born muslimin libya and all my family members from both sides (dad & mom) r muslims (thnx 2 Allah).all ppl in Libya (my country) r muslims.Libya is 100% muslim country.

i love evry thing about being muslim ,don't u?
where were u born? and where r u from?
P.S :I THINK 4Ever-@-Muslima's ANSWER SHOULD BE CHOSEN AS BEST ANSER OR THE 1 ABOVE HER (IN MY OPINION) CUZ I TRULY LOVED HER STORY.

another thing :1 of my contacts just turned muslim 2 days ago and she needs help in many things especially muslim women issue's. i'll tell her and send u her email cuz my english isn't very well that i can be a big help 2 her.
may Allah reward u.

Answer 5

I am an American revert to Islam. I had dated someone who was an American Muslim and began studying to learn more about his religion more out of respect than anything. Allah had another plan for me. Even though this person and I broke up, I continued to study and find my peace through Islam. Now, Alhamdulillah, I am coming upon my one-year anniversary of declaring shahada on August 29.

Before becoming Muslim, I was a member of the United Methodist church--a Sunday school teacher, even--and continued attending while studying Islam. Now I only attend masjid.

I love that through Islam, I have learned to trust in God's plan. I really, truly love God and love to worship Him through prayer.

Answer 6

I was also born a muslim, but I was going to church for some time(I was still young) untill one day, my mom woke me up in the middle of the night and started crying that people will blame her for me living Islam. well see my mother cry made me embrace Islam some more, and I haven't looked back since.

Answer 7

I was a Christan before I reverted to Islam. I've been Muslim for 10 months and was Christan for a month before I began to question that religion and left in search of something else. I went to Sunday school until 6 years old and then from 7-15 didn't go to church at all as my mother wasn't religous anymore. I went to Church at 15 for the summer and didn't enjoy it at all. I was agnostic my entire life and then at 19 became Christain on June 28th. I stayed Christain until Spetember 1st and then left because I didn't understand how women were the only people responsible for the fall from the Garden of Eden, and didn't understand how God could exist in three different forms. I read the first commandment and it says "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me". I began to wonder if I was doing something wrong by praying to Jesus(PBUH*) as God. I also couldn't understand how Adam(PBUH*) wasn't blamed for the fall and I didn't like how the Bible treats women saying that each woman is an "Eve" and that they are without souls and will burn in Hell and how the Bible doesn't give women rights especially rights to children. I didn't understand why God would need a "son". How could God need a "son" in order to accept people to Heaven? I figured that if God killed himself then who would run the Universe, Jinnah and the world? I also didn't like the idea of babies being born in "sin" because babies have no knowledge of God and can't be full of sin because children are innocent of sin until the reach a certain age. So I researched Islam and asked my Muslim brothers about Islam and finally took my Shadah in my bedroom on October 1st, 2006. I like everything about Islam. I started wearing hijab the day I got married on October 19th and plan Insha ALLAH start wearing the Abaya and Niqab sometime in September. Alhamdullilah I love being an American Muslim woman and will die a Muslim.

Answer 8

I could easily have been a Lutheran minister but gave up on claiming a faith although I have always believed in God. I later started searching again and a friend from Pakistan and I started talking about Islam. I explored it and reverted. I praise Allah.

Salam.

Answer 9

yhe same as you are born muslim by birth
lived for a good while in non muslims land which gave me greater apretiation for islam as a religion
live in jerusalem where you can from a lose distance watch tha contradictions of non muslims
you can see there how easy a person can be humiliated just becauase he says rabeyyeh allah(allah is my god) and how roads are blocked for those who going to pray in mosques
and how land is stolen under world eyes

Answer 10

I was born into a family with no religion. I studied various types of Christianity for many years but never felt comfortable with all I was hearing. When I discovered Islam I found that it matched the ideas I already had. I converted on May 4 in a beautiful mosque in Morocco, Alhamdulilah

Answer 11

i was also a bornmuslim but did not trully start to practise my religion until a little while back.
i love the freedom that islam gives women and that you can totally find peace and be at one with this simple religion


culture and tradition make it hard to follow but the true reolgion of islam is very easy and simple