I’m a convert to Islam AMA

[Candyapplesandhearts]

All in the title really.

feel free to ask. I know this has been done before but irl people always seem fascinated but too afraid to ask yet have LOTS of questions

i’ll answer a few in advance: I’m white british
I’ve been Muslim 12 years. Since my early 20s
i didn’t convert for a man (Christians and Jews wouldn’t need to anyway)

hope this can be a place to ask a question you’ve wanted to ask IRL but maybe felt too shy or was worried someone would take it the wrong way

Yet it’s ok to say it about Jews right????? Thanks for making my point for me. Enough now.

What has anyone said remotely negative about Jews?

talk about a straw man! Can’t counter my actual point so inventing another fictional one. Ludicrous and embarrassing (for you not me)

please point to a single one of my comments that’s been removed by Mn or even said anything vaguely negative about Jews or the Jewish religion?

I’ve not managed to read the deleted posts but I’ve been emailed about them and I’m presuming they were racist enough to be removed. Unless you’re suggesting they were removed because of some misunderstanding?

It was your post that was removed!

you said some pretty vile things about Muslims? Then patronisingly called me ‘hun’. Then shared some historically inaccurate information.

i didn’t report it but im assuming someone else did, whereas none of mine have been removed? Thus proving no one has said anything remotely negative about Jews (at least on this thread)

Here you are again saying horrible things about Muslims to prove 'a point' that its wrong if someone says similar about Jewish people. Can you really not see your hypocrisy?

@Candyapplesandhearts but all of those protests are absolutely minute in comparison to the ones against Israel.

But they happened and they do happen all across the world. I just gave you a few examples but there are scores more

Honestly logic has left the chat with that poster

thanks for the thread OP
I commend your patience

Thank you!

it’s very a challenge given some the comments, but i think those comments prove that some people are just very anti Muslim and aren’t very interested in changing their minds on the matter, that old us v them thing yet again

Did the angel its self say it was Gabriel?

my understanding is that Muhammad didn’t know the name of the angel. He asked someone and they assumed its was Gabriel. The angel didn’t state its name so how can you determine what its intentions were or that it wasn’t a demon? Angels are said to state their name when they appear before someone (Old Testament)

i think you might be mistaken, there’s definite references that name Gabriel both in the Quran and in the hadith, and then there’s also how gabriel is referred to when he’s not mentioned by name

Hello 👋I hope it is ok to 'resurrect' this thread with a couple of questions? It's been an interesting read, thank you :) I only recently found out that there are two Eids (belated Eid Mubarak - is that a thing?!). I know of Ramadan, and you mentioned Hajj. What is Hajj please? Are there any other 'festivals' or religiously significant dates throughout the year?

Also, given you follow the lunar calendar, is your birthday celebrated according to the lunar or the secular solar calendar? I assume you have different month names for the lunar months (?) - are all the months the same length, or can they vary?

I'm an (ultra) orthodox Jew, and find the similarities (and differences!) very interesting.

There are so many similarities. Not only in faith but many practices too!

Someone else will come along and explain in more detail but in short, Hajj is pilgrimage to Mecca. Muslims can visit Mecca at any point but it’s only during the month of Dhu al-Hijjah that it counts as pilgrimage that all Muslims should do at least once in their lives. It’s quite demanding physically as there are various rituals involved including recreating the steps taken by Hajar after she and Ismail were left in the desert by Abraham.

The end of Hajj is celebrated with the sacrifice of a lamb - again, in honour of Abraham’s almost sacrifice of Ismail (but I understand Jews believe it was Isaac who Abraham was going to offer?) - and then Eid!

As our months are also lunar, the date changes every year, in that it moves forward by approx 10 days. But it also means that months are either 29 or 30 days as it depends on the sighting of the moon, which is why often we don’t know its Eid until the day before! I think Judaism is similar but has an extra 13th month every few years so that the holidays stay roughly the same time of year?

No one I know celebrates birthdays according to the Islamic calendar though I suspect there are people who do.

Thank you for detailed response! How is jj pronounced please? is it like a guttural kh (like in loch), or something else?

Yes, we say it was Yitzchok, not Yishmael. Judaism was originally similar, with moon sightings determining the month length, but it was fixed as a calculated calendar in 350 CE roughly. It's a lunisolar calendar, so that's why we have the extra month every few years, and the year length varies as well.

I celebrate both birthdays 😅the more cake the better... Could be awesome to celebrate the Islamic birthday date as well as the secular because you could have two birthdays literally at opposite ends of the year ...!

Were you part of a different religion before or did you have no faith?

Umrah too, that’s also a pilgrimage but this answer covers everything

there is some debate as to whether Muslims should even celebrate birthdays in the first instance too

It’s just like the English J maybe a dj sound but it’s pretty comparable to the English J

Thanks for your responses 🙏

@Candyapplesandhearts thank you for this thread ❤️