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Ramadan Kareem - laian - 11-11-2004


Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatu


MashaAllah this is a wonderful site! [Image: biggrin.gif] I just recently found this site and I have been reading the topics and I think everyone here is so nice and friendly, and it's a great atmosphere here alhamdulillah.


I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone and to know how was your Ramadan this year. I am sort of a new muslimah, I'm 3.5 years old [Image: tongue.gif] . I've seen a lot of new muslims on this site and it is so inspiring and makes me so happy to read about people finding Islam!


So Ramadan is almost over, subhanAllah! This is the first year that I have tried to read the entire Qur'an during Ramadan, and alhamdulillah it has been such a blessing! Is anyone else having such a wonderful Ramadan?


I'm looking forward to joining the discussions on this site inshaAllah, I'm happy to find such a nice place for talking about Islam [Image: biggrin.gif]


wasalam [Image: wub.gif]



Ramadan Kareem - Anyabwile - 11-11-2004


Assalamu alaikum


I'm one of those new Muslims you mentioned and yes i'm having a good first Ramadan. Officially took my Shahada during it, and the fasting has bought me much closer to Allah (Subhanahu wa ta'ala). I'm still learning taking it all in but yes this forum is great, hope you enjoy it here.


Assalamu alaikum



Ramadan Kareem - Muslimah - 11-11-2004


Bismillah


as salam alykom sister laian


Mash a Allah another new Muslimah, Mash a Allah most welcome to our family sister. Alhamdulelah that u are already feeling comfortable in our company. May Allah bring us all closer to Him.


Yes Ramadan went so fast time was racing, I felt time is running like water between my fingers. May Allah accept.


we are so much looking forward for your contribution on the board [Image: biggrin.gif]



Ramadan Kareem - NaSra - 11-12-2004


Walaykuma salam warah matulahi wabarakatu




Quote:I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone and to know how was your Ramadan this year. I am sort of a new muslimah, I'm 3.5 years old [Image: tongue.gif].

Welcome Sister [Image: biggrin.gif], You are Still a baby! Ramadan has been wonderful for me. Last ramadan I was making so much dua for many things, and this ramadan all of my wishes came true (well not ALL of them) but most of them that is, and I am so ever grateful for that. I have never imagined myself to be where I am this ramadan ALHAMDULILAH!


If you don't mind me asking Sister, Can you tell us how you came to Islam?


Your Sister In Islam


-Intuition-



Ramadan Kareem - Muslimah - 11-12-2004


Bismillah


as salam alykom


I echo Intution's words lian, but can I add something Intuition, even if your wishes didnt all came true, all of your dua is accepted but moreover Allah Rewards u for the act of making dua because dua itself is a worship.


When a person makes dua he is between three situations either Allah Grants the person what he/she asked for, not to grant the person the request but instead takes away an evil off the person, or delay the reward of the dua till the Day After. U know what? when we are in the Day After, just for realizing the reward of our delayed dua, we would wish that all of our dua's were delayed. Make dua brothers and sisters as much as possible. Talk to Allah. Make dua for youselves, then parents, family members and all Muslims.


<b>"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. You are our Maula (Patron, Supporter and Protector, etc.) and give us victory over the disbelieving people."
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Ramadan Kareem - umm Zachariah - 11-12-2004


Assalamu aleikum sister laian,


Welcome! So nice to meet a new sister. Some of you are popping up just flowers, masha'Allah, the mercy of Allah, SWT is so great.


I hope you will enjoy the forum and share your thoughts and questions and answers with us.


Ramadan just running away too fast, where did it go? But insha'Allah I had a beautiful one, this years in a way more emotional than before. Alhamdulillah.


Talk to you soon insha'Allah


Wasalam



Ramadan Kareem - laian - 11-12-2004


Assalamu alaikum,


Thank you Anyabwile, Muslimah and Intuition for your nice welcomes! Anyabwile, congrats on your shahada, alhamdulillah, how special that you took shahada in Ramadan!


Intuition thanks for your comments [Image: happy.gif] I know I'm still a baby in Islam but sobhanAllah I feel like I've been a muslim my whole life, and alhamdulillah I've had the opportunity to learn a lot about Islam -- I even dropped out of school for a year to study it and practice it more! alhamdulillah.


I would be glad to tell the story of how I came to Islam. I was raised in a mormon family, but stopped believing in high school and especially when I went to college and began studying it more closely and found all of the lies. For awhile I had no religion, but I wasn't too concerned about it.


Then I found a friend online who told me several small facts about the practical aspects of Islam, such as a woman's rights in marriage, and the fact there is no sabbath, and how the charity is given, among others. A lot of these things were so wonderful compared to how mormons do things, so I was totally intrigued and I researched Islam online, but I felt I couldn't trust most of the things I found online until I had a better basic understanding, and also I really wanted to visit a masjid.


I attend school in a fairly small town, but alhamdulillah there is a masjid here, it is the only one within about 50 miles or more I think, and alhamdulillah it was right here right down the street. I wanted to call the masjid but I was so nervous about calling because I understood that men and women are separated and I was shy to talk to any men, and also I had never been in the situation where I knew nothing about the culture of people and I wasn't sure what to say, but alhamdulillah I just decided to do it and a very nice brother answered the phone and I told him I just wanted to learn about Islam and I wondered if there was a place I could go, and he gave me a phone number for a sister in the area and I was so glad that I could talk to a woman. So I called her and told her the same thing and she was so happy to work around my schedule and do whatever I wanted.


So we agreed to meet at the masjid and she brought an american sister with her, and the three of us sat in the masjid and just talked, and now I don't even remember what we talked about but I felt very comfortable there. I took the other sister's phone number, and they invited me to attend a weekly class they hold for the new converts at the sister's home, so I went for a couple of weeks, but I was busy in school and I just decided I needed some time to think over what I had learned so far. They gave me a copy of the Qur'an, and then I didn't talk to them for several months, but I was really so preoccupied with Islam and I was thinking about it all the time. Alhamdulillah my heart became so soft and everything I learned about Islam became easy. One day I was in my room with my roommate and her friend and they were talking about religion. They happened to ask me about my religion, and for some reason I just said, "I'm a muslim." And my roommate was shocked, she said I had never told her, and I guess they didn't really believe me because of course I didn't dress like a muslim or do anything like that, so I got out my Qur'an and showed them and then they believed me and they were totally shocked. Not bad shocked, but more like they were impressed. This all happened before September 11th, and alhamdulillah that it did or I don't think it would have gone as well.


After that, I knew I should take shahada but I was still apprehensive because I lived on campus in basically a public place with guys around all the time and loud music and whatnot, and I didn't feel I could truly be a muslim by living in this place. But I finally decided I should do it anyway and Allah would put me in the right place, so finally in June of 2001 I took shahada, and alhamdulillah that very same week the american sister I had first met said she had room in her apartment for me to stay with her if I needed. May Allah bless her heart, she has become one of the best friends I have.


I stayed with her for quite awhile, but then she moved to Kuwait which was closer to where her husband works and then I had to move to a different town, not too far away, about 30 miles, but still far enough to make it difficult to keep contact with my muslim friends. The town I moved to had literally no muslims, and most people there didn't even know what Islam was. The life there distracted me and I wasn't able to practice my religion as well as I wanted, and I finally decided I needed help to get in a better place, so I told myself to focus on Allah and ask His guidance. I started reading the Qur'an every day, with the plan that I would finish the entire Qur'an straight through and then make istikharah about what I should do.


But Allah didn't want to wait for me to finish the Qur'an. About 3 weeks after I started reading the Qur'an I got a phone call out of the blue, the caller ID had a strange number and I had no idea who it was until I said hello and I heard the familiar "salam alaikum!" of my friend who had moved away! I was so thrilled to talk to her since I hadn't talked to her for a very long time since she left. But then it got even better -- she was here visiting!! SobhanAllah, I left everything I was doing to spend all my free time to visit her while she was here, and during that time my deen grew so strong because I was spending so much time in an Islamic atmosphere. Alhamdulillah, Allah answered my prayers in such a beautiful way!


While she was here, she told me about how she decided to come to visit. It was summer time, and most of the people in Kuwait were going away for the summer. She had had some trouble getting her residency and whatever else she needed in order to be able to get a flight to the US, so instead her friend had offered to take her to Lebanon for the summer. She said that sounded very nice, but she also had wanted to come back to see all her friends, so she wasn't sure what she should do, since it was unlikely she could get a plane ticket in time to come for the summer. She was almost going to go to Lebanon, but at the last minute all her paperwork went through and she found a flight and she said she actually purchased the ticket the night before she left and didn't even have the ticket in her hand until she was on her way to the airport. She could only get 3 weeks to visit, which she was sad she couldn't have more, but she said she just felt that she needed to come here to visit.


SobhanAllah, I told her I knew why she needed to come here -- for me! Allah answered my prayer with her, sobhanAllah. After I spent all that time visiting with her I felt a burning in my heart that I loved Allah so much and I didn't want to go back to the empty life that had no Islam. So even after she left I kept going to our other friend's house who she had stayed with and I kept myself there as much as I could, and about a week after she had left I began wearing hijab alhamdulillah, and that's an entirely different story about my adventures with hijab and the people at school and at work! [Image: tongue.gif] But alhamdulillah, there were no major problems and everything went fine, and now I can't imagine myself going out without my hijab, and I can't imagine myself in a life where I'm not surrounded with muslims to help support me in my deen... this is so important, and alhamdulillah Allah is making the way easy for me.


Well that was a very long story, sorry for that! But to me I still feel how beautiful it was to come to Islam and how beautiful Allah has made my life with Islam.


SobhanAllah... Allah kareem, Allah kareem


Alhamdulillah, Allahu Akbar!


If you made it this far, then thanks for reading [Image: tongue.gif]


assalamu alaikum [Image: wub.gif]



Ramadan Kareem - laian - 11-12-2004


Assalamu alaikum,


JazakAllah khair umm Zachariah for your nice welcome! You posted it while I was typing my huge novel of a story [Image: tongue.gif]



Ramadan Kareem - Muslimah - 11-12-2004


Bismillah


as salam alykom Laian you r thanking me for reading I thank u for typing Mash a Allah. Sobhan Allah I love to read about how Allah S&T Supports at the correct time when we really need to be supported. May Allah bless us and u more and more sister. again welcome to the board. [Image: smile.gif]


BTW we have a sisters only room would like me to give u access we like to see u there [Image: ph34r.gif]



Ramadan Kareem - laian - 11-13-2004


Assalamu alaikum Muslimah,


Thank you very much for the offer, I would love to have access to the sisters only room so I can discuss with all the wonderful sisters on this site inshaAllah [Image: smile.gif]


JazakAllah khair