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| Kathy |
| 11/06/02 at 14:29:46 |
| [slm] Last night a woman became Muslim. I do not think we have had a shahadah in years that wasn't directly tied to marriage. We had it at the mosque, instead of at the dawah center. No one showed, except those involved in helping her thru the year. Today, we called around to ask why no one from the community came and they said "because it is a intensely religious experience between the person and Allah, we should not treat it as a party." Party- means cheesecake and cookies afterwards. Is this the norm at your masjids? |
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| dirt |
| 11/06/02 at 15:28:08 |
| [slm] Hmm, I think it's better for the community to show support for a new muslim. A muslim without a community is almost certain to falter. I think the best time to do it is on a Friday, after the Friday prayer. A lot of people are already there and many will stay to see such a beautiful moment. [wlm] |
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| Kashif |
| 11/07/02 at 05:20:05 |
| assalaamu alaikum Sounds like they just couldn't be bothered to come. I remember when i took a brother to take the shahadah to the masjid, one couple interrupted their own session with the imam to let the Imam see the brother immediately. And afterwards they congratulated him and everything, and as we walked out, the cleaners and the decorators outside the imam's office who had heard the whole shahadah process had the biggest grins on their faces, and were hugging and shaking him. I think that when a person takes the shahadah they should be relatively quickly introduced to the community so that they always have someone to turn to in the absence of their main point of reference. Kashif Wa Salaam |
| NS |
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| Kareema_Abdul-Khab |
| 11/07/02 at 15:41:45 |
| I remember some shahadahs(1 man and 1 women) at a mosque where they simply had the person say it after one of the prayers, then asked all the brothers or sisters to come up and hug and greet their new brother/sister in faith. Since there were like 30 women, 50 men, and the congratulations were very effusive and sincere and everyone hurried to greet their respective shahadahs, I thought this was a very nice initiation into the ummah of Islam and its the way I would have wanted to convert if I hadn't been born Muslim. The negative is that there really wasn't time/quiet for one-on-one relationships to begin to be built, but you can do that later :-) ;-) |
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| gift |
| 11/08/02 at 09:47:31 |
| [slm] like sister kareema and brother kashif, when i witnessed 2 ladies do their shahaadahs there were so many sisters queing up to shake their hands, the poor ladies were overwhelmed :'( (but in a nice way :-*) [wlm] |
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