Next step you need to transform your mindset away from 'sectarianism', it's very hard to do, given you were born within sectarian society.

Exactly, it's been more than difficult to stop having that kind of mindset. It's going to take a lot of work on my part. I always think of people as "them" instead of "us", this causes obvious problems.

I guess what I am trying to say is if you or anyone else is still having a hard time accepting what other Quranist believe than how can you complain about being shunned. Another words if you are not able to convince other Quranist that what they are doing is wrong than how can you convince a Sunni. Often Quranist (myself included) tend to be zealous and we want others to have a deep knowledge of the Quran. But deep knowledge of the Quran is not necessary for salvation

Oh I know what you mean, it was stupid on my part to say it too early. But because I was very excited, I just wanted to tell the world. After I got shut down by two people I just stop saying it. This had happen months ago when I was very new to this concept. But I was shocked by the reactions because I wasn't trying to impose anything on them, but now I could see what you mean. I really have to shape up my views.

Sometimes people call me a feminist, though I really just think I'm vouching for basic civil rights for both sexes.

I'm the same, all I want is to have the same rights as men and men should have the same rights as I. Equality is all it is.

Thank you all for the warm welcome.

Ever since I accepted the Quran as the only source to gain knowledge of Islam, I felt like there is a absence of god in my life as well as shaytan... don't get me wrong I feel like Allah is still there with me but not as much as before. The same I get with the shaytan, I just don't feel the presence anymore (thank god). I don't know how to describe it. I'm honestly scared tbh
Should I be worried? It's not a bad feeling, it just feels eerie and I miss the feeling in a weird way.

Does this make sense?

Salaam alaikum

I was born a Muslim, but I don't consider myself one until I had hit the age of 11, that's when I found Allah and had strive to please him. By the age of twelve I went to an Islamic school, and they taught many hadiths, and even at the age of 12 I could see the faults in them but I accepted it anyway, hoping to become a better Muslim. It's funny cause I was encouraged and discouraged to read the Quran. I was trained to know that quran is only for Scholars and to stop wasting my time, and I always blindly followed the sheikhs. I notice since then I became more judgmental and domineering.

I left that school when I went to high school, and I'm ashamed to say I dropped Allah from my life since. Three years later, I saw a lecture about the day of judgment and I had this horrible fear within me, and I started to cry throughout it all, and begged Allah to help me. I was on my A-game after that, I prayed on time, I was nicer, I tried to stop listening to music, I was everything that I wanted to be, and I was happy.

This all changed when I was listening to my favourite sheikh, Khalid Yasin, and he was talking about how to beat your wife... I, being the hardcore feminist that I am, was of course shocked by this, so I listened to him and I was extremely angry. So then I researched and came up on a Quran translation that states that you should beat your wife if they act up ( I found later this was twisted and wrong translations of the verse). This got me to research everything in Islam and the more information I got the more sad I was. I was at my lowest point, I went to sleep crying for days. I thought that Allah made me as a tool for men; that I wasn't as loved by Allah. I was seriously thinking of leaving Islam and becoming agnostic, subhanallah.

Every time I questioned something I was basically shut down. So this encouraged me to leave Islam; though I prayed for Allah to guide me. Then I stumbled upon people who said that hadith were fabrication and nonsense, I read it and they had some valid points, then I read the side of people that believe in hadiths; their argument was weak. So then I realized that every issue I had with Islam all came from the hadiths. I... was relieved but I still thought hadiths were effective. Then I was hit with a distant memory of my sister mentioning Muslims called quranists. I searched them and I was pleased to find things that honestly made sense, a large number of hadiths never made sense to me at all. I studied this for a few weeks but then I started to become afraid. What if I was going down the wrong path? Was I accepting this cause it pleases me? I was in doubt for days.

I was always told that the Quran was complete, but you need hadiths because it gives more info. ... what? That would be contradictory, then wouldn't the Quran be incomplete? Then I found that the prayer is explained in the Quran, wudu is explained, Zakat and Hajj were explained. The Quran is complete. What is the use of hadith to be honest? Then I came to the conclusion that God's words trumps everything, and if I followed hadiths I would be following man. After this acceptance, I felt darkness has been removed from my life.

Tbh how does cutting my nails or walking or sleeping like Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) help me get to closer to Allah. What is the relevance of knowing a Shaytan is pissing in my mouth when I yawn. I don't understand.

When I told people about my new found discovery I was greeted by hostility and rudeness, and even since then a friend has told me that I should just leave Islam if I was doing this. How quick of you to say I'm not a Muslim and going to hell, I guess this is the way it is.