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Easy aye?


In the name of Allah,
Most Gracious, Most Merciful,
Praise be to Allah,
the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds,
and Peace and Prayer be upon the Final Prophet and Messenger. Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Quran

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So, I'm back to my old format of writing. 

Anyway, I thought of this a while ago and the reason for my talking about this is because it seems that this issue is quite redundant now that it has been appearing on my news feed quite recently.

I actually feel slightly unsettled with what I saw regarding what people think of us reverts, saying that we are so much better Muslims in general, simply because of the fact that, again I stress, in general, we acquire Islam the hard way.

In general, it may seem to be case but actually, a lot of us manage to become a Muslim easily, some without any obstruction at all.

So you see it is quite inaccurate to say that because I have seen even born Muslims have a hard time being a Muslim, and we can see this happening quite at large in the Western countries.

We should appreciate Islam because of the fact that Allah has chosen us among billions to become Muslims, be it through the hard way or the easy way.

Which is why I guess, again, we need to remind ourselves of this verse,

49:13
O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.
{Al-Hujurat, 49 : 13}

Allah did not say the ones that are the best among us are reverts who acquired Islam the hard way, but He only say that the best among us are the most righteous. We are only judged by the level of our imaan and not by the way we acquire that imaan.

Perhaps for some, to acquire Islam is hard but eventually their imaan may also degrade as they go on because Allah does not exempt reverts from trials and tribulations like desires etc.

So Allah also tells us in surah Al-An'am, verse 54,

6:54
And when those come to you who believe in Our verses, say, "Peace be upon you. Your Lord has decreed upon Himself mercy: that any of you who does wrong out of ignorance and then repents after that and corrects himself - indeed, He is Forgiving and Merciful."
{Al-An'am, 6 : 54}

InshaAllah, if we truly desire to be better Muslims, Allah will help us, but only if we want to. Allah is always with us, but are we ever with Him?


Salam alaykum and peace out.




"Sometimes we can't just say "Allah has a better plan for us." 
We have to believe He does."

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