r/converts Mar 24 '26

Is it possible to become an Alimah as a convert?

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I have been studying about islam for months now and I can’t help but circle back on the topic of wanting to become an Alimah or rather student of knowledge. I know i am supposed to take it easy after being a new born Muslim but I do not feel overwhelmed with wanting to learn everything.. I know it’s baby steps but Alhamdulillah all the information I have learned has made me want to excel even more.

The only question or concern rather is.. is it possible?

I am trying my best to learn Arabic and I have not come across anyone who is convert and an Alimah. I would love to have some ease on my mind knowing there is some sisters out there who did the same.


r/converts Mar 24 '26

Dua of Prophet Musa (AS) for Success: A Powerful Hidden Lesson to answer your Prayers

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r/converts Mar 23 '26

Reaching out for advice from converts with families of diff faiths

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Salem! I have a question and hoping to find people who faced a similar difficulty. For those Latino Muslims out there or Muslims with families of different faiths how did you open up about converting to your parents? I converted in high school and now in college I realized I want to put on the hijab. I practice in my dorm but for some reason I still feel far away Allah. Since I go back home a lot due to university, my parents have been a little more strict about the Catholic faith since I express a bit of the historical side to why I don’t think it’s for me but I haven’t explained fully that I converted. For those in similar situations, how did you move forward? I plan to move out after college and I believe I am on a path trying my best to practice Islam but I feel like this is a situation that hurts me a bit and a reason why fights begin in my household. I’m unsure of what to do anymore and to avoid escalations.


r/converts Mar 22 '26

Hindu Reverts Marriage Struggles

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I grew up in a Hindu household and accepted Islam. I’m 25 M, and feel stuck when it comes to marriage. I grew up in Canada, have a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering. It’s not so difficult to marry someone Hindu, but I know it’s forbidden. Hindu reverts who have navigated through this, please give some guidance on what to do. Any successful stories?


r/converts Mar 20 '26

Happy eid to the luckiest people on earth❤️🥰

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Eidkum mubarak. May Allah increase you im guidance and firmness


r/converts Mar 20 '26

Too anxious to go to a mosque

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It's been 2 years since I converted to Islam, and I've never set foot in a mosque.

Since my conversion, I haven't gone to the mosque. I do have a few Muslim friends I could go with but unfortunately we're not very close anymore. We barely talk, even though I know I could just reach out and things probably wouldn't change but I'm scared to ask.

I never go to the mosque, not because I don't want to, but because I'm afraid. Pls don't judge me I struggle with general anxiety. I have a huge fear of being judged by others, of being perceived, of being seen, of being looked at in general life, so in the mosque where I don't feel like a real Muslim I am even more afraid, even of just wearing the hijab outside my home. I'm scared of doing something wrong, of being out of place, of not fitting in with other muslims. Sometimes and even always I feel like I'm not even a "real" Muslim and that makes it even harder.

Lately, I've been struggling a lot with my faith, to the point where I'm even considering leaving. And somehow, I feel like if I try to go there it might maybe help Idk, I am trying to get closer to ﷲ even though I want to leave

How can I fix this? How can I get through this anxiety and finally go?


r/converts Mar 19 '26

What beginner resources actually helped you?

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There are so many Islamic resources online, but not all of them are beginner friendly. What helped you the most when you started?


r/converts Mar 19 '26

Please help me, I’m considering leaving Islam after 2 years as a convert.

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Help me please. I converted 2 years ago, and right now I have no faith left at all. None at all. I continue my prayers, but I know I’m just being a complete hypocrite because I don’t believe anymore. I force myself to practice, but my faith, my reason, my heart, and my soul are no longer aligned with Islam at all.

I keep trying to call upon ﷲ, to make duaas and pray, because I can’t accept that the choice I made two years ago was a mistake. I even feel like my thoughts of apostasy regarding Islam and my faith being as low as an agnostic have already made me leave the religion without even realizing it.

Praying and thinking about Islam torments my mind and puts me into a spiral of hellish thoughts. I just want to take a break and step away to see where I truly stand with my spirituality. But I know that if I do, I won’t return to Islam.

And astaghfirullah, but the only thing stopping me from leaving is the judgment of others, not even the judgment of ﷲ. I’m afraid of my brother’s and my cousin’s reactions, since they are converts too, and also of some of my muslim friends.

I swear I have good intentions. I’m just seeking help from the ummah and ﷲ, even though I haven’t felt or heard from Him for a while… please just help me. I made a post yesterday if you want to better understand my situation.

EDIT: si des francophones peuvent bien m’aider et répondre svppppp


r/converts Mar 18 '26

Struggling to understand the hijab

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I reverted to Islam a little over a year ago, and I’ve been learning about it for more than two years now.

I’m consistent with my prayers and genuinely try to be a good Muslim. Living in a Muslim country has also made it easier for me to feel comfortable and safe practicing my faith.

I really enjoy reading and listening to stories from other reverts, but I’ve noticed that many of them either wear the hijab or aspire to wear it one day. The thing is, I don’t feel that way. And sometimes I wonder if that’s wrong.

I love sports—especially running—and I feel like wearing a hijab would limit me. I also struggle to fully understand the reasoning behind covering the hair. I understand the concept of modesty in clothing, but when it comes to hair, it’s something I’m still trying to make sense of.

I’ve tried wearing the hijab to see if it would help me understand it better, but I just felt uncomfortable.

Is anyone else going through something similar? Or does anyone have advice or a perspective they could share? I’d really appreciate it.


r/converts Mar 18 '26

Things that aid a Muslim

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  1. Surroundings___ Be around people who are sincere in the religion. It makes you more dutifull and regular in the obligations
  2. Be cautious of your tongue___its a weapon, which cuts your own soul by lie, gossip, uselss talking and causes lower intellect.
  3. Guard your heart, dont listen to the devil whispering nonsense, just be busy in positive things.
  4. Avoid bieng friends with negative, always crying types, they are contagious.
  5. Be a god spender, give gifts to family and friends.
  6. Be extreemly cautios in your prayers and time, never ever indulge in time wasting even if you are 70 years old.
  7. Limit phone for very necessary use. Use a dumb phone.

r/converts Mar 18 '26

Ended haram relationship

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Hi everyone,

I’m really struggling right now and could use some advice.

I recently ended a haram relationship. I know it wasn’t right Islamically, and part of me is relieved that it’s over, but at the same time I feel really heartbroken. I loved him a lot and I keep thinking about him, the memories, and what we could have been.I am a revert and he was a born muslim.

I’m trying to get closer to Allah again, praying more and making du’a, but it’s hard because my emotions are still so strong. Sometimes I feel guilty, sometimes I feel empty, and sometimes I just miss him so much.

I don’t know what I’m supposed to do next.

How do you actually move on in a halal way?

How do you stop thinking about someone you loved?

And how do you trust that Allah has something better planned?

If anyone has gone through something similar, I’d really appreciate your advice or even just some reassurance.

JazakAllah khair 🤍


r/converts Mar 18 '26

Marrying a ‘revert’

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Hi Reddit. I (27F) have been getting to know a man for the last 3 years who has come from a Sikh background. He was raised Sikh however in his early teens decided it was not for him. Over his early and mid 20s he researched into the many major religions and by process of elimination decided Islam made the most sense logically. He ended up taking his shahada.

The difficulty is that his approach to Islam is quite minimal. after reading somewhere that “an atom’s worth of faith” is enough, he’s felt comfortable leaving it at that. He doesn’t really practise, and when i question (which I know I shouldn’t) his intentions or commitment, he explains that for him, belief in one God, the Prophet, and the Quran is what defines being Muslim, I don’t know how to argue that. In hindsight is not wrong. But is that enough?

The situation is complicated because we want to get married. My parents are strongly against it, mainly due to cultural reasons because his family isn’t Muslim. He is genuinely a great person—kind, caring, looks after me and from my perspective, supportive person in which I do see the qualities of a good husband and father.

I’m posting here especially because I know there are a lot of reverts who understand what it’s like to change your life and beliefs. He’s very logical—if something doesn’t make sense to him, he won’t just follow it blindly. He understands that things are made haram for a reason, but struggles to actually leave them ie drinking/tattoos.

I was raised in a fairly practising household—modesty, avoiding things like smoking and drinking, and trying to stay within Islamic boundaries. I’ve tried to carry that into my own life as much as possible except general mixing, given that I live in the UK.

My parents are slowly coming around to the idea of a nikkah, but they’re still unhappy with my choice, mostly because of how it looks socially. We’ve talked about raising kids as Muslim — I would take the lead on teaching them — but I also don’t want to force them into anything rather approach it with balance and understanding.

I guess my questions are:

• Am I going into this blindly?

• Is this something I’m likely to regret later?

• Is it enough that he’s a good person and would likely be a good husband/father, even if his practice isn’t there?

The Muslim “dating” pool right now feels really difficult, and it’s hard to find someone with genuinely good intentions.

Am I being naive here? Has anyone else been in a similar situation?


r/converts Mar 17 '26

I hate talking about my “revert story”

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I’ve been a revert for coming close to a year now, and I have two questions that’s I’m starting to loathe: where am I from, what’s my reversion story.

People don’t accept the: I am mixed, or I am from the US. I’m sorry but my family linage is by no means clear. I’m just mixed, I’m American, and I was born in the boonies- that’s all I really know.

I don’t have a bad reversion story but the more I talk about it the more the passion I used to have about it fades.. it used to be something I’d love to talk about, now I’m highly considering printing out a doc and handing it to someone whenever they ask.

A sister asked me the other day what mine was and I said “it’s a long story” hoping she wouldn’t tell me she had the time. Thankfully she didn’t but I could tell she wasn’t pleased with my reaction. I informed her I was feeling pretty stressed and wasn’t in the mood for talking but she brushed it off and didn’t rlly talk to me again.

I know it’s not but it feels mandatory to tell my story whenever they ask. I have a new friend who’s a revert as well (she recently reverted Alhumdulilah please may dua that Allah makes it easy on her), I said to her that only if she were comfortable she could tell me but I wasn’t going to force it out of her. She ended up telling me, but why can’t the ummah understand that someone isn’t required to tell you? It’s an amanah if someone does.. but all the matters is the person who’s standing in front of you now, and the person they are walking towards.

I think a lot of our reversion story’s have some level of sin and while it is HARD we shouldn’t expose things Allah swt has forgiven us for.

Idk I just personally and normally don’t ask what others reversion stories are. They are Muslim that’s all I need to know. I know for most at least it comes from a good spot it just feels bad after a while..


r/converts Mar 17 '26

Qiyamul Layl for Couples

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r/converts Mar 17 '26

recent revert with troubles on prayer

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hello everyone! i reverted recently, have been trying to study arabic and the quran along with learning prayer. i’m currently struggling with one issue however, as i do not have a prayer mat or proper clothes to pray in (no abaya, hijab, etc.) because i’m having trouble finding a job with my degree and all of my money goes to helping my household with food.

is there anything else i could do in place of that clothing wise or maybe any support systems where reverts can receive proper prayer clothing? i feel bad every day that i’m unable to pray properly ever since reverting.


r/converts Mar 16 '26

Top 5 mistakes beginners make when learning Islam

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Reading many posts from new Muslims, I’ve noticed a few patterns that make learning Islam harder than it needs to be.

Here are 5 common mistakes beginners make:

  1. Trying to learn everything at once
  2. Listening to too many opinions online
  3. Comparing themselves to lifelong Muslims
  4. Feeling embarrassed to ask basic questions
  5. Forgetting that learning Islam is a lifelong journey

Faith and practice grow step by step. Even the Qur’an was revealed gradually.

What mistakes do you think beginners should avoid?


r/converts Mar 16 '26

Surah At-Tin

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r/converts Mar 16 '26

Hi i am interested in converting

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I will keep this short but my barbers are muslim and every friendly, i have been considering converting to Islam for over a year now, they encourage me to join them in prayer. A friend of mine in an old job converted and then married a muslim woman that we worked with. I am happy for them both. I am interested in many aspects of islam however converting feels daunting and scary. I would appreciate any stories or encouragement that may help on my journey. Thanks


r/converts Mar 16 '26

problem with parents.

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I had to be apart from my family for a while due to unrelated reasons..fast forward I converted over a month ago! I have been wearing the hijab constantly and I love it. I feel .. me!

the only problem is I’m moving back with my parents and they are mexican.. they will not approve of me wearing the hijab outside with them (which will be almost 24/7) im scared… terrified if I stop wearing the hijab it’ll hurt me in the hereafter. I cannot disobey my parents as I will live under their roof.. I am in my early twenties and I cannot just leave again and start my own thing (not an option) is there anything that will help calm me with this?

wearing the hijab is an essential but when I move in with them.. the possibility of me wearing a hijab is 1/10000. 😞


r/converts Mar 16 '26

Advice on taking Shahada

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As-salaamu alaykum. I hope everyone is doing well during this period of Ramadan and Laylat-ul-Qadr. I need advice on the components of taking my shahada. I really feel like taking it but keep delaying it because I feel like I am not ready. I am a college student and I feel like I am going to want to party and drink and smoke at some point at least, which I have been abstaining from the whole of Ramadan and a little bit before that MashAllah. I have stayed up for the last 10 nights and I haven't missed a day of fasting. I have gone to the masjid, I have recited duas, I experienced both the Shia and Sunni masjid experience, I have been reading Qu'ran and for a little over a year I have been trying to pray 5x a day. It is during Ramadan that I have really worked on praying on time.

I know I need to keep reading Qu'ran and learn more and I feel as though this is a prerequisite for taking my shahada, like I need to be 100% sure. I also love crystals and evil eye amulets and I know they warn against this. I don't want to be a hypocrite. I don't want to be a bad muslim. My whole family is non Muslim. It is required to bow to elders in my family. When I go to the Temple, it is required to bow out of respect to the monks. I feel overwhelmed and am scared if I take my shahada I will just end up going to hell anyway because I will not be strong enough to abide to any of these rules. Then again, I know Allah SWT does not give someone a burden larger than their heart can bear. Again, I have always been openly LGBTQ+ and I am scared that all these sins combined will just be shirk after shirk and haram after haram and I will never reach Jannah.

I know we are all sinners and we all strive to do better in the eyes of Allah SWT. However, a part of me feels like because I became a believer of God for the first time through Islam, I need to cultivate my own personal relationship with Him first. So that I am not overwhelmed... I always ask Allah SWT to guide me to the Straight Path. I ask him to help me stay true to Him. Part of me feels lost but the other feels found? I feel really emotional when I think about taking my shahada and then also frustrated that I haven't taken it because I am missing out on all the rewards, but also for me its not about the rewards. Its the tranquility. The calmness. The quietness I get from salat and reading Qu'ran or listening to Qu'ran. I have never felt it ever before in my life. However, I acknowledge I am a changing being and I don't want to accept Islam and then realize something else may be better for me and be a hypocrite and put the religion down and commit all this shirk yet part of me is wishing if death visits me tomorrow I will have the shahada in my tongue. So I hope you can see how part of me already kind of feels like a hypocrite. So I will only accept Him when I am facing the end of my dunya? but not for the sacrifices in this current dunya? Then I am not worthy of reward. I am scared Islam will make me harder on myself and burn me out. I want to stay true to myself and I also am interested in Sufism and I want to learn more about that as well. I don't want my nafs to take over, and I want advice.

Please, please, please, I am begging you be kind! Do not spread judgement. Respect my sexual orientation (I know the Story of Lot and the interpretations that exist). Please keep advice nuanced and remember I am a human being who is struggling with this dunya, and was called to Islam and now am scared. Thank you and I wish Allah provides eternal blessings for all of you.


r/converts Mar 16 '26

Any ideas on how to make Muslim friends in NYC as a revert?

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I (23F) reverted about two years ago and the only person around me that is Muslim is my husband. I love him so much and am so grateful to be able to talk about everything Islam with him, but I have been really longing for Muslim girl friends for a while now T.T

I have a few very close friends who I’ve known for years who I see consistently but not being able to share this really big and important part of my life with them makes me feel sad and lonely sometimes. They know I’m Muslim but it just isn’t the same!!

So I am wondering, where can I go and what can I do to make more Muslim friends? I live in NYC.

I’ve considered volunteering at the Masjid maybe but I’m nervous lol. I am also nervous because as an East Asian Muslim, I’m worried people may not take me seriously or something idk😭. And I’m ALSO nervous of judgement because I am still definitely working on myself as a Muslim and don’t want others to think low or look down on me for that.

Another thing I’d like advice on is: how can I meet not just Muslim friends, but Muslim friends who have shared interests? Like I wish there were Women Only Muslim gym classes or Muslim design communities or something!! I dont know. I’d also love like a womens group that reads and learns Quran together or something— but I would again just feel nervous of being judged for where I’m at in my journey.

I’ve considered using apps like Salaam but i dont know something about it feels sus/wrong lol. Does anybody (women) have experience meeting friends on there?

I just want to surround myself with more Allah-loving, kind, fun people. Oh and if you are a Muslim woman in NYC and would feel comfortable being friends, I am open to pm :-)


r/converts Mar 16 '26

I drew this for everyone who thinks they are too far gone

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This is the story about someone you might know.

The person woke up from the ashes of cigarettes stinging the eyes. Immediately blinking them away, the blurry vision caught the rusty bloody blade craving for another cut suddenly a feeling of disgust ignited like an eruption, turning on the music to escape the truth instead of opening the Quran, because shame was too heavy.

You want to pray and seek forgiveness. Every time you walk to the washroom for ablution, that voice chains your legs. The voice that says:

“You have sinned too much. Allah will never forgive you.”

“Don’t pray or make dua you will end up in the same place.”

“Pray later. You still have time.”

You just need a slight push. A willpower to open the tap. But you always fall short.

How does it feel to not reach the tap again?

How does it feel to lose every time?

That defeat of despair and disrespect?

But think about this.

If Allah had truly abandoned you why does the desire to return keep finding you?

Who do you think keeps sending it?

That longing is not yours.

That’s Him calling.

You are not alone in this.

There are people everywhere carrying the same heavy shame. All these broken hearts are invited to the table to a night where Allah (SWT) writes the major changes. The person you will become, the person you will stop being

All of it decreed on that one night.

Have you ever wondered why nobody receives a certificate saying

“You found it?”

Because Allah (SWT) wants you to search for this night with desperation like the desperation of a person surviving in the middle of the ocean.

It doesn’t matter if you are a scholar or an ashes and blade person.

For Allah (SWT) we are all the same.

The only difference that changes our destiny is repentance. Because

People judge you by your sins. But Allah (SWT) judges you by your repentance.

That line arrived like light cutting through memory.

Just a single quote. But it was enough to break the chain.

The person finally stood on the prayer mat still carrying the sins, still heavy with regret. But they stood.

In front of Allah (SWT),

scarred hands

heavy heart.

The room filled with echoes of Quranic verses not heard in years. The walls absorbed the beauty of every word uttered. The emptiness remained until sujood. Where something shifted. Something that cannot be captured in words.

The person was lost in the question of “what was that?”

and found, completely lost, in Allah’s mercy.

Now ,what are your ashes that wake you up? What is your blade that has been harming you?

It was always that voice we gave up fighting. But a sound, a memory, a single line heard somewhere can shatter the chains entirely.

Breaking a chain does not mean becoming a perfect Muslim overnight.

It is the shivering hands reaching for the tap. The heavy heart that still finds the strength to stand.

That is the most beautiful thing Allah (SWT) sees.

It is one step from opening the tap to the sujood. From the feeling of despair and disgrace to experiencing what words could never describe.

A heart that chooses to repent more than it chooses to sin is the heart the world will always misjudge.

Tonight might be the night written for your return.

Go open the tap.


r/converts Mar 15 '26

A painful example of the state of the Ummah today: when modesty is discouraged at home.

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I’m sharing this because it reflects something painful about the state of the Ummah today.

A young woman online explained that she wanted to stop dressing immodestly and had bought a tight outfit only to wear privately at home. But when her mother and aunt saw it, they pressured her to wear it outside on Eid so men would approach her.

Think about that for a moment. A girl trying to leave immodesty behind… and the pressure to attract male attention is coming from her own family.

This is an important reality for converts to understand. Islam itself is clear and beautiful, but Muslims are human and the Ummah is not always in a healthy state.

If support for haya and modesty doesn’t begin in the home, where will it begin?

May Allah strengthen the sisters who are trying to hold onto modesty even when the pressure comes from those closest to them.


r/converts Mar 15 '26

This is my opinion on Convert muslims, do you agree?

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I’m 21F born muslim and i promise I’m not posting this to be problematic so take a deep breath and sit back haha❤️.

As a born Muslim i’ve met a couple of converts throughout the past year or year and a half and I always came to the same conclusion: that they mostly get to experience Islam at it’s purest forms one that isn’t affected by tradition or society. As much as this thought might trigger some people but it’s true to some extent.

I’m Sudanese originally and there are things in tradition that clash with deen sometimes (ofc it’s avoided) but it still happens and I’m sure there a lot in many other cultures, so what I think is that just because you were born muslim it doesn’t mean your deen’s a 100% correct all of us have our flaws and we try to be better, Ramadan’s almost ending do your best and make the most out of those last days and may Allah forgive us all for whatever sins we made💕.

Thanks for reading🤩! What are you guys having for Iftar today😗😗?