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I think one of the main factors that affects converts (and others as well) is the difficulty of finding that way to adhere to deen in a way that compliments their personality.

No two people are the same. We even see that amongst the Sahabah, they were various types of personalities, and all of them were followers of the Prophet (saw) while maintaining their personalities and who they were as individuals. For example, Umar (RA) was naturally serious before Islam and he remained that way after. Abu Bakr (RA) was passive and gentle before Islam and remained that way afterwords…

We had: Sahabah who liked doing business Sahabah who renounced the world Sahabah who liked wearing nice clothes Sahabah who were serious Sahabah who were light-hearted Sahabah who liked travel Sahabah who liked remaining in Medina and the list goes on….

Islam didn’t come to strip away your personality, it came to give you guidelines on how to live within the boundaries of Allah so that you can make it to Paradise in the end!

Learn how to be you within Islam and don’t get the two confused. From amongst the greatest challenges of these days is identity crisis and lack of confidence with one’s personality. You’d be surprised on just how much these two factors cripple a person’s religion.

-Naguib Mahfouz

“I possess a heart whose nature is such that, though hearts may turn cold toward it, it may withdraw, yet never utter a single word that wounds.”