Salam alaykum to this sub! Yesterday I posted the question about witnessing shahada here. Thank you for all your responses, may Allah reward you. I was overthinking everything but today I finally just went for it! Alhumdulilah! I went out to a mosque and although I’m pretty uncomfortable with hugs and excitement it was nice.
My journey’s been a rocky one. I reverted to Islam with very little knowledge and an extreme amount of optimism when I was in high school. I loved the ideas of Islam but looking back I’m not sure if I ever fully internalized it or appreciated some of the challenges that would be coming. To cut the story short, I developed quite a severe eating disorder in my young adulthood as well as a multitude of physical problems. I spent the next few years in and out of hospitals, experiencing bouts of homelessness, constantly either starving myself or stuffing myself. The most tragic thing of all was I lost my iman. Slowly piece by piece I went away from the deen until I started to doubt and abandon nearly everything. I never thought I’d be lead back. And I really can’t say how I was. But it’s happened. On this beautiful Friday in pouring rain, I’ve truly fallen in love for the first time in my life, with Islam. And somehow Allah has blessed me with a new start in life and a new start on deen.
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