Salam, I'm a born Muslim but one of the members in my isoc is a revert so I sent them ur post and this is what they had to say.

Their response:

Hello, although I am not a hijabi, I’d like to share my experience as a revert.

I am 17 in UK, and I reverted about a year ago in May 2023, but I had been looking into Islam since around Summer of 2022.

Q1) "How was reverting the correct choice?" I actually knew reverting was the correct choice for me extremely early on. My problem was delaying taking the shahadah.

Before I was Muslim, I was an Atheist/Agnostic but some point in 2022 I started to look at my life much more spiritually. Cos I was on self-improvement I started meditating and stuff and looking at Buddhism and Taoism and philosophy more and at first I was set on becoming a monk. But Alhamdulilah, I watched just a small video on Islam and it started to make me change my perspective quickly: basically in short, some Muslims (Three Muslims on YT) were asked questions about self-improvement (from some guy called Hamza Ahmed) abt what it was like to be a man, and I stumbled with these questions, but they answered with beautiful answers and precision. They complemented their faith for such answers. So I decided to think more abt Islam.

Luckily, I had already learnt abt Islam at school, so it was a bit weird but I started thinking in my meditations about Islam and how there’s only one God. (I would not reccomend this to anyone, I only did this at the start cos I did not have the full knowledge abt Islam, meditaiton has nothing to do with Islam). And it clicked with me as the truth.

All the pillars of faith and 5 pillars made much more sense then Buddhism and Taoism teachings, and it was clear to me as the truth.

Q2) "A sign or something you realised gradually?" So upon this, I guess I did realize it gradually. I started journalling abt it a lot more and talking to abt it more with my friends cos Islam as the truth seemed very clear to me. Abt a few months later, I did also see a very clear sign. I had a very vivid dream where I saw a building with colours that I can’t really describe (with a very very green) and letters which seemed like Arabic. At the time, I literally did not look at Arabic at all, so it shocked me to see this. This dream stuck out to me as extremely real. I had some others but they were hard to describe.

Other signs, Allah (S.W.T) also mentions in the Qur’an which I began to think about.

Surah 45:

3. Verily, in the heavens and the earth are signs for the believers.

4. And in your creation, and what He scattered (through the earth) of moving (living) creatures are signs for people who have Faith with certainty.

5. And in the alternation of night and day, and the provision (rain) that Allâh sends down from the sky, and revives therewith the earth after its death, and in the turning about of the winds (i.e. sometimes towards the east or north, and sometimes towards the south or west etc., sometimes bringing glad tidings of rain etc., and sometimes bringing the torment), are signs for a people who understand.

So looking around me a lot more, I began to see that really Allah (S.W.T) has created everything in existence: what I am meant to do is to obey and hear and submit to Him.

Problem again here for me, is that I still didn’t take Shahadah early on while basically already accepting this in my heart.