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[QUOTE]Originally posted by newcomer: [QB] Hi caterpillar! Alhamdu lillah, it looks as if you have been having some good experiences with Islam and Muslims and seeing the positive side of the religion, and I thank Allah that your husband has been able to help you to see this! :) That is a real challenge these days with so much negative press about Islam about. Along with the other new Muslims I would like to encourage you on the path that you seem to be treading on. Btw. I am a British Muslimah and I said my shahadah several years ago now. I am so happy that you are interested in becoming a Muslim, but I was reading one of your other posts and saw that it is not so long since you decided that you wanted to become a Catholic, and I would like to encourage you to take a bit more time before you make the final decision and not rush into it. When you say your shahadah (testify that there is no other god except Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger) to become a Muslim your intention has to be that this will be a commitment for life. If you read around you will find that there are some very strong disincentives to leaving Islam! When you become a Muslim it means that you are agreeing to submit to Allah and what He revealed to us in the Qur’an and what His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) taught us. This doesn’t mean that you have to do everything all at once; it can be a gradual process…the Prophet took 23 years to teach his Companions the religion, and he was there to help them. ;) You have plenty of time to learn about the religion and improve your practice of it. Although I said my shahadah quite a while ago now, I am still learning and trying to include new things into my practice! As the others said, you don’t have to know Arabic straight away, its encouraged for all Muslims to learn it, but the one thing that you will have to do is to gradually learn how to say your prayers in Arabic. The prayer is the most important thing that you should start to learn; as this is the main pillar of Islam…everything else can wait. :) And you don’t have to learn how to do it before you become a Muslim, but once you say your shahadah it will become obligatory on you. You can do that in stages…learn one part of what you are supposed to say and keep on repeating it in all the sections until you have memorised it, and then start learning another part, until you have gradually learnt enough to do one whole prayer without a prompt. If you don’t feel able to do all the prayers at once…and most of us don’t…you can also do that gradually. You are really lucky to have your husband to help you learn all this…its much easier with a live teacher, than through the internet! The main thing that you really do have to be convinced of before you say your shahadah is the implications of what saying that means. It’s natural to have the concerns that you have been having, but if you are convinced of what it means to be a Muslim, then you won’t worry about other people’s reaction to you, or what they say, because you will know that you did it for the right reasons. There is a lot written about this, but here are a few links that can help to explain this much better than I can. http://www.islamtomorrow.com/9points.asp http://www.sunnahonline.com/ilm/aqeedah/0005.htm http://muslimconverts.com/shahadah/converting.htm http://groups.msn.com/IslamicKnowledge/newmusliminformationcentre.msnw Please feel free to ask anything, and if we know the answers, we will be glad to share our knowledge, if not, we can hopefully point you in the direction of somewhere to find the answers. And may Allah be your guide! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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