crookedlyleftunknown:

aprilnofools:

thisnotworking:

deenoverdami:

I find I grow impatient with Muslims who question me and why I became Muslim myself. Not in the way that they’re interested in my story, but in the way that they want to see if I’m sincere about Islam.

Let me say this, no person would willingly put themselves through the torment of converting if they weren’t sincere about this religion.

Do you know what it’s like for your friends to turn their back on you?
Do you know what it’s like for your mother to say she has never been more disappointed in you in her lifetime?
Do you know what it’s like to be questioned if you did this for a person you like? (This one I find the most insulting)
Do you know what it’s like to wake up for suhoor, alone, celebrate eid, alone, make salat, alone?
Do you know what it’s like to walk into a mosque and feel different from everyone else?
Do you know what its like to sit through a religious service you don’t agree with to appease your parents?
Do you know what it’s like realizing that the only way you knew how to get married is suddenly unacceptable and you don’t really know how to meet someone, how to adjust yourself to the new way, or who you can marry because most parents don’t want someone from a different culture?
Do you know what it’s like explaining why you became Muslim to a friend and expecting them to desert you afterwards?
Do you know what it’s like to give up everything you know, to listen to an orphan who lived 1400 years ago?
Do you know what it’s like to question yourself on whether you really believe any of this at all, that maybe it was a mistake, that maybe all of this is for naught?
Do you know what it’s like to cry because you don’t know where you belong?

I do.

We said the shahada prepared to face scrutiny from our family and friends, but not from other Muslims.

On behalf of the reverts,
Do not second guess me, do not second guess us.

We said the shahada prepared to face scrutiny from our family and friends, but not from other Muslims.

This.

….brave

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Jul 10, 2015
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