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I�d just like to say goodbye, and to offer you all my best wishes for the future.

Although I plead with you to be far more sensitive with people when abrogating your religion, for not only have I found myself ostracised from all my friends, but my family has now ejected me, and on the streets I am about to descend.

So please think carefully about what you hope to achieve, and remember that you have family helping, where I only have grief.

Hence I ask, is it fair that reverts have to take the brunt, while getting nothing back from those whom are more than willing to reap the benefit? 

I would just like to warn every revert to Islam about these people.

As I have briefly tried to explain above, I have been (up to now) living with my family whom through no fault of my own - despise everything about Islam.

For a start they despise my cleanliness, every time they sought to use the bathroom facilities within their house, and couldn�t (at the exact moment they wanted) because I was performing wudu, they would increase a little bit more in their annoyance, not toward Islam, but toward me, for denying them what they wanted, when they wanted it.

For them Islam is nought but a fallacy, hence my performing wudu is nought but an irritating hassle preventing them from getting on with their lives. I had already been in the position of having to abandon my Fajr Salah very early on within my Islamic practice, due to my parents been irritated by my waking them at �un-godly hours!�

The fact that I ceased to eat haram food, and stopped celebrating false rituals like christmas and easter, only increased the division between me and the rest of my family, and increased tensions within an already enclosed space - an hundred fold.

Now the stage has been reached where I am been thrown out, as toward the end of my stay there was not a single act I could do, that would not cause them to fester in their hatred for me. And what advice was constantly been drilled into me (by the Imam�s and alike)? Allah will not help you if you do not perform the statutes!

I regret having to raise this issue yet again, but I approached you (Muslim�s) professing to have knowledge that the energy forces and gravity were indeed One Force, Lord of the Alamin, hence I was able to correct the false ideology that there were many gods, as with those whom disbelieve (and hence help you propagate the religion).

Two and a third years later I still wait for the one simple request I made (for help) to be met, namely to speak with someone whom would be able to advise me on how to proceed, for everyone but Muslim�s disbelieved, and certainly the scientific community with their �evolutionary chance� long ago washed their hands of me.

So now in hindsight I look back and see what a fool I have let you make of me! 

For not only am I unemployed with no hope of a career, but now I am going to be homeless, and through the isolation the religion (you have preached) has forced me into, there is no one at all that I can fall back on.

The very fact that I am going to have to beg of a Christian charity for hostel accommodation  (until whatever will be - will be), just exposes the complete farce that is - the absence of any understanding on the part of �lifelong Muslim�s� for what reverts are going through, and hence any kind of meaningful assistance whatsoever.

I just don�t know why I ever bothered, you didn�t want to help, when I wanted to help you, so I certainly don�t expect anything of you, now I am left with nothing.

So this is a warning to all reverts � in this world these people do not really wish to help you; rather they will happily string you along while you continue to advance their own worldly goals, for as long as you accept their treatment, you will merely be justification for them not to change and just continue!!!!!!!    

Sent to, Saudi, UAE, Jordanian, Egyptian, Iranian, Malaysian, Libyan, & Syrian embassies here in the UK (and why not? you have left me with nothing at all to loose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Assalamu Alaikum!

responsibility,

Welcome to your new found faith Islam!

May Allah shower His blessings on you as He is the Creator and Sustainer of entire mankind.

I feel sorry for your troubled situation and pray to Allah that you face it with courage. I really feel the pain that many reverts to Islam go through. And may Allah make their life easy by His grace. But, with each such trial, they are also blessed by Allah's grace much more than those who have been Muslims all the life.

We can also see that Muslims, as a whole, are going through persecution and slaughter around the world. Look at Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya to name a few. I think, therefore, it would be unwise to compare as to who got more bruises.

The solution does not lie in dividing Muslims along the lines of "born" and "revert", it lies, rather, in taking entire ummah as a whole. As it appears to me, Muslim world is going through major transformations. Insha Allah it would get better in the future. Such transformations take time.

I beg forgiveness from you for any word or insensitive expression at this forum that might have hurt you in anyway. And wish that you continue to contribute your beautiful writings to this board by the grace of Allah.

May Allah bless us all with the wisdom of Islam.

Peace

Bismillah,

Responsibility, did you write this to the embassies, or are you quoting it because you feel similar to the author?

Let your faith in God, Allah, Our Protector keep you safe from all that may harm you. 

If you were given advice but no physical help, then you had bad advisers.  I have seen many sheikhs advise new reverts to Islam to take things easy on themselves and those around them.

Some people want to be complete esoterics and don't mind losing everything they have in this life, and are really happy because they know that they will be rewarded in heaven.  But if you are like most of us, you find it too difficult to change everything all at once and you needed help in knowing and following your new found faith and also how to not annoy your own family and possibly guide them.

For example, Your morning woodoo for fajr you could have taken a bowl of water to your room without anyone noticing because you would be very neat, and pray quietly so that they didn't hear you -- if they complained about the noise.  And you could have done the same during the busy parts of the day when they might need the bathroom.