Baba Ali Care for Convert Interview (2 of 2)

Converts facing these issues

Dealing with Marriage: 1. Difficult to meet other potential Muslims because there is no Muslim family/friends to assist
2. Ethnic divisions
3. Virgin question
4. Lack of a responsible wali
5. Difficulties for sisters who have been married before and may have children
6. Having to cope with people constantly trying to marry you off to anyone who is looking to get married, despite their obvious lack of compatibility with you as a person
7. Not being aware of the cultural differences enough to know what are the warning signs to look out for in a prospective groom, many of whom deliberately target new Muslimahs knowing they have no Muslim family to support them prior to/during a marriage
8. Children from different Muslim fathers due to serial divorces and/or polygynous marriages

Dealing with Non-Muslims: 1. Working out how to tell your family the news of your conversion
2. Working out how to introduce your new beliefs and way of life into your relationship with them, such as halal food, hijab, alcohol, celebrations of non-Islamic festivals, etc.
3. Trying to show your family and friends that you havent joined an extremist cult, and that you wont grow out of it in time
4. Trying to show your family that Islam has made you a better person
5. Lack of resources to deal with fallout of converting (ex. What to do if legal action is taken by convert family)
6. Answering constant insult about Islam from family/friends
7. Dealing with non-monotheists (people of the book family members)

Full list is at

http://halfdate.com/2008/03/15/care-for-converts-drive/

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[mma4ever11208]

so is baba a sunni or a shiia?

[livinghalal]

sunni

[mzjwright]

Allah called us MUSLIMS EH...NOT SUNNI, NOT WAHABI, NOT SULAFI, NOT SUFI ETC ETC ETC

Allah Ta'Ala called us MUSLIMS...we should hold tight to that rope and unite as an Ummah...:D

[AidanQuinn786]

"verily this ummah of yours is ONE SINGLE ummah" quote from the quran

[manimgoindowndown]

This made me love you baba ali. I have always thought "wow the khutba is being given in urdu/arabic" as a second generation immigrant this troubles me as this isn't my first language. Imagine how converts feel. It's more reason I appreciate them and their imaan.

[tassaduq009]

Baba Ali was a great guy i don't care if he was sunni or shia.

[ahmadadznur]

We MUSLIM should be proud that they open there heart and back for were they belong in hand Of ALLAH but we are not allow to say anything that could hurt there feeling but we should hug and say Alham dulillah YOU are muslim

[ahsanrana69]

@mzjwright

So please explain the hadith; The muslim nation will be devided into 73 groups

Unfortunetly, this is the reality. We are devided into, shia, sunni, salafi etc etc...

[MatrixOfDynamism]

@AFRICA4AFRICANS Muslims regardless of color or race pray facing Makkah. Facing in the direction of the structure recreated by Abraham. It creates Unity, a realy practical form of unity that is.

[MatrixOfDynamism]

@AFRICA4AFRICANS @AFRICA4AFRICANS we are NOT. Its just that knowing the Original language of revelation (which is Hebrew for what was revealed to Moses, Aramaic for what was revealed to Jesus and; different for different nations when prophet was sent to them), helps us to understand things directly. As for translations they may retain some form of meaning but the original depth of meaning and word power is lost in the process. Just try translating poetry from one language to another.

[AFRICA4AFRICANS]

@IBMonaLuv ..in any arabs state you would be the maids slave