Being a Muslim

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   Am addicted to read stories of reverts since years. So the sheikhs who help them enter into islam advice them to do so. It depends on the how the family is. Here Safiya mentions that her mother is strict. So its better for her, if she hides her religion for the time being and disclose it at an appropriate time. By then she shall get stronger in her faith. If the very day she lets her family know, she may be pressurised and her weak imaan may not be able toi defend her. That the reason why its advisable to let it know later. We require very very strong imaan to face such situations. As far as i know its not nowhere is it written that we need to seek permission of our family or hide it from them. But yes its advisable to be on a safe side for time being to hide it.  Am sorry that i used the word scholars - Its the  sheikh.
When we go though the stories of sahabas, just to cite a vey known example of  Hazrat Umar RA. 
According to a well known and authentic tradition when   Umar {ra} set out to kill the Holy Prophet, he met a certain person, who said, "Before you do anything else, you should know that your own sister and brother-in-law have embraced Islam" Hearing this, he directly went to the house of his sister. There he found his sister, Fatimah, and his brother-in-law, Said bin Zaid, learning the contents of a scroll from Khabbab bin Art. When Fatimah saw him coming she hid the scroll at once, but Hadrat Umar had heard the recital, so he began to interrogate them about it. Then he began to thrash his brother-in-law, and wounded his sister, who tried to protect him. At last both of them confessed, "We have become Muslims; you may do whatever you like." As Hadrat Umar was moved to see blood running down from her head, he said, "Show me the thing you were reading." The sister asked him to promise on oath that he would not tear it, and added, "You cannot touch it unless you have a bath." Accordingly, Hadrat Umar took his bath and when he began to read the scroll, which contained this Surah, he spontaneously spoke out, "What an excellent thing!" At this Hadrat Khabbab, who had hidden himself at the sound of his footsteps, came out of his hiding and said, "By God, I have high expectations that Allah will get great service from you to propagate the Message of His Prophet, for just yesterday I heard the Holy Prophet praying to Allah, 'My Lord, make Abul Hakam bin Hisham (Abu Jahl) or Umar bin Khattab a supporter of Islam. So O Umar, turn to Allah, turn to Allah." These words proved to be so persuasive that he at once accompanied Hadrat Khabbab and went to the Holy Prophet to embrace Islam. This happened a short time after the Migration to Habash. 
Now  without any furter explanation,  its understood as why and how did the sister of Umar RA hid not reveal her religion. Sis Safya, pls go thru this link too which shows how this companion of Prophet , behaved when was emotionally presurised by his mother. Hope it shall help you.
 http://www.islamicity.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7691& ;PN=1