thank you all for the welcome!

That it can take time to come to understand the Quran and this is a learning process. So there is nothing to worry about if we get something wrong just as long as we are open to learning and moving on by Allah's swt leave. Hope this helps!

That's a great way to look at things. Thanks for the advice

Hi,

I stumbled upon this forum in my quest for true Islam. I come from a not so religious Muslim family but I've always been interested in religion. I started reading the Quran and hadith at the age of 9. I only read the nice hadiths at the time so I didn't really question them. As I grew up and went to university, I started reading more and I met people who challenged my beliefs. I was surprised to find out that non-Muslims knew more about the content of the hadiths than me & they used it to attack Islam. There were many hadiths from Bukhari and Muslim that I couldn't really defend so I turned for my Muslim friends & even scholars for help. I thought that maybe they could help me understand but when they didn't understand something, they just dismissed it and they warned me against rejecting any hadith because that was 'kufr'. I became an agnostic for a short while then I found out about Quran-only Islam. I read the Quran again away from preconceived ideas and it suddenly made more sense. That was 4 years ago... In the last few years, I have seen some of my friends turn into atheists because of the hadiths. I'm glad that didn't happen to me. I'm here to learn more about Islam...