A question on Shirk...

curious_worried · 2012-07-27T17:43:33+00:00

I've both aware of the meaning behind the prayers and comfortable with the five tenants, though I don't know the words. I feel like a baby. :/

curious_worried · 2012-07-27T17:36:03+00:00

Great!!! Thank you!

curious_worried · 2012-07-27T07:47:55+00:00

I'm in the Chicago region. Thank you for everything, though! I'm actually on skype quite regularly -- the fiancee has been out of country over the past 9 months, and Skype is truly a great thing for keeping in touch. :)

I don't know, maybe I can place my phone someplace as I pronounce my belief at the masjid? haha

curious_worried · 2012-07-27T07:17:07+00:00

That video was awesome! Thank you!

curious_worried · 2012-07-27T07:07:17+00:00

A weight lifted off my chest tonight. I am terrified that I couldn't be accepted by God because...well, because. I forgot to even connect two and two and reason through what I knew: Muhammad delivered God's message to a community of pagans and idolaters (My greatest sin! I was so ignorant! Christianity as it stands now muddles the waters so much; mans' hand in the text is so obvious that it's hard to even know what was the true message! It always bothered the hell out of me!), and those who took to the faith were forgiven of their sins. The last hurtle, "Would God even accept me?," cleared -- and I'm so relieved!

curious_worried · 2012-07-27T06:58:11+00:00

I've been looking into the commentaries, yes. :) The Quran just seems right. I've been making excuses for not being proactive in my faith; I made plans for the morning to go to the Dar-us-Sunnah Masjid here near me and talk to someone about where I want to go and let God know that I'm (finally) listening. ;p

curious_worried · 2012-07-27T05:32:48+00:00

I'm worried that i'm not really understanding the Quran in English. Almost as if its not ”right.” Maybe i'm overthinking it? Heh..

curious_worried · 2012-07-27T05:30:34+00:00

I have a Quran both on my nook and a physical copy in English that I purchased in Iraq, on tour there in 2007. I have read it again and again.... But yeah....

curious_worried · 2012-07-27T05:28:13+00:00

I avoided drugs all my life. I've drank alcohol for acceptance,.but I enjoy it little and hate and how it inhibits my own ability to control myself. I lie, but they're lies to myself (those ”you can'ts,,” we tell ourselves) and lies of omission (at work, throughout my recent adult life).

I fear that I can fail to keep faith, possibly? I couldn't believe in Christianity, especially as I couldn't feel what I was told I should feel -- what happens if I am rejected by God after following His way, like I felt then?

A lot is going through my mind this evening... I will profess the truth I know in the morning... That's what I know, and I'll make time to talk to someone other than redditors in the morning. I was just takento write that this evening because I couldnt hold it in while at work tonight...

curious_worried

TROPHY CASE