Greetings to All
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@ Alio Greetings of Peace and welcome welcome welcome
I am new to this forum too! I have not introduced myself properly yet! OOps -X May as well do that now! I'm British, from a non-religious family background and I converted (reverted?!) to Islam in 2006 from "no religion". One day, shortly after converting, I made a "mini pilgrimage" to a Mosque in the City centre, and was shocked, angry and embarrassed that I was not "allowed" in! Because I am a woman, and there was "no room for women", because it was the Friday prayer which was giving "priority to Men", because Men "HAVE to pray in the mosque whereas women can pray at home...." Well.. I was standing outside the mosque crying, and a kind brother came up to me and wanted to help and gave me the phone number of a Sister who does Quran Study Circles and "mentors" the new converts. I went there and there were 5 women altogether. This is a Quran Study Circle with a dozen books and not a single Quran in sight! "because we mere mortals are too inferior to even dare to try to understand the Qur'an, we just keep it on the top shelf" So anyway, we were discussing why the prayer is so important and what the benefits of it are and really enthusing over the wonder and power of prayer. Then the prayer time came and 3 of them said "we are not praying today because of our monthlies"
So I went away with a lot more questions and All praise to Allah s.w.t that I came across the Submission and Free-minds sites and Islamicity's Qur'an Reader Search function. I really started to get some decent information, and found out how to double check the Qur'an for myself and was then able to study it in more depth, before the Hadith people were able to totally confuse me!
So thanks for listening and Greetings of Peace to everyone. May Allah be Glorified.
Peace,
Respectfully.welcome welcome to the forum and may The Exalted God The Most Merciful bless you and give you even more Strength and even more Patience to survive the Right Path. May The Exalted God The Most Powerful give you even more Knowledge and make you the best Muslimah.
Peace.