Just wanted to share and say thanks
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After much discussions/arguments I'm ecstatic! My wife is now a Muslim. yay yay yay yay
She totally rejects her Sunni heritage and follows the Quran alone; and now we can teach our kids to the best of our knowledge.
Much gratitude and thanks to all who make contributions to this cause not only on this site but all over. bravo bravo bravo
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Peace tightdhoti,
Praise be to ALLAH! sun
That is great news, brother! I can only imagine how happy you are. Can you share with us a sample of how the process went? What do you think really got to her?
May peace be with you both.
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Peace Eikonoklastes,
Can you share with us a sample of how the process went
The key was to have her question what she has been taught all her life. The problem is they (traditional muslims) always refer to so called scholars or Mullahs, and that you and I don't have the authority to question them. brickwall
One of the fundamental beliefs they have is that prophet Muhammad is the most beloved of all prophets. So I asked her if that was true, and the reply was a confident affirmative. I then showed her 2136 and 384. Her response was, "see, it purposely excludes prophet Muhammad's name from the list because he is "special" and more beloved." I then asked if no specific name was mentioned and God had instructed us in the Quran that no distinction shall be made between the prophets by humans, would she at least be open to discussions regarding the Sunni faith without invoking the need for scholars? Fairly confident that this was not in the Quran, she agreed; to which I then showed her 2285 and 4152. After the initial shock elektro she was at least willing to listen to what I had to say. jedi
You might wonder, didn't she ever read the above verses in the Quran? From a Pakistani and Indian perspective (don't know about others) let me introduce you to the biggest fraud ever in the name of religion (well, 2nd biggest as I believe what Bukhari and Muslim did was worse). Translation is called tharjooma in Urdu, and an opinion based explanation is called tafseer. What I told my wife is that this so called translation in Urdu she has been reading all her life is nothing but tafseer disguised as a translation. She thought that was impossible! Trickery of this grandeur was inconceivable!
As she is able to read Arabic and make sense of some words, I asked her to read the" tharjooma" of 242 in Urdu, which she did. This so called "translation" contained the following (paraphrasing here) ...for the unmarried adulterer and adulteress 100 lashes are prescribed and for the married adulterer and adulteress they shall be stoned to death...
I then used Corpus Quran and she followed each word in Arabic, and voila - could not find any of the added urdu words in the Arabic verse. I believe this was the last straw; she then knew what needed to be done...read an un-adulterated translation (if there is such a thing) of the Quran. I purchased the FM Quran by Layth as it is my favorite, and the process continues.
To top it off, I then showed her all the filth in the so called sahih hadiths, which was just icing on the cake so to speak.
Regards,
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nice and good for you.
i'll study your method and find the right time to apply.i'm currently doing this (shifting from sunni to muslim) alone.
my wife still sunni and not into truth seeking.
did talked to her.. and she just said that before you complete learning don't simply applying.
(something like a half-baked knowledge that may not be true thus dont jump in)
but i believe that this journey of mine will be long.. so i can't wait. don't know when it will end.i'm at first feel bad about this (leaving my wife with her believe) but now calm a bit since i learnt that
- we're responsible to ourselves
- it's Allah who guides
**please correct me where i made mistake. TQ