Asalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah, I've been Muslim for 15 years, and I want to extend my appreciation for discussing this topic. Culturally oriented communities, no matter how well intentioned, simply don't have the insight to address all you've discussed. Jazakallah khayr

Things I have noticed as a revert who took my shahada 17 years ago. First I will say these issues may only be seen in the US, but may be applicable elsewhere. Sometimes the distance is very far to your closest masjids. Just my trip to my nearest masjid is roughly 45 minutes drive. This is doable for me, but requires a significant investment. 2. Most jobs in the west absolutely hate to give you Fridays off or even time to go to Jummah. The level of support for reversion is vastly different in many locations. KZfaq has been a huge help in my education. When I took my shahada, the extent of my of my education was a Quran and 2 print outs one for Wudu and 1 for Salah. 3. The masjids, at least in my area, are under lock and key most of the time. This makes it fairly uninviting if I stop by to do a prayer if I am in the area and don't even have a way to do wudu outside of the dust method. There are many hurdles that push a revert to not attending jummah and maybe eventually falling into apostacy.

O believers! Whoever among you abandons their faith, Allah will replace them with others who love Him and are loved by Him. Quran 5:54

I've witnessed some of those: ● Breakup: The divorce one left Islam because they (openly admit) only converted for marriage in the first place. ● Rejector: The person who converted from reading Quran but then later read hadith so they left Islam. ● Seeker: The person who converted to Islam but left it for Zen Buddhism or Sikhsm etc. ● Trauma (a): The person who newly converted and was encouraged to married to someone, she did and he physically abused them so much using religious references (spiritual abuse) as excuse for bad behavior it traumatised her until she wants nothing to do with Islam. ● Trauma (b): The person who witnessed a community leader doing wrong things and felt let down etc, lack of justice, accountability & transparency etc

All converts can be the best ones to help other converts because The Companians were converts and they also could help each other at that time. Even there wasn't many of them. If a born muslim wants to help converts, that's great too.

I really like the shorter videos that hold the attention and topics that nobody else discussing. Born Muslims face similar set of problems, too, especially if they have evolved beyond their ethnic communities or the next generation that is susceptible to the same set of vulnerabilities.

Great gems jazkallah khair

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It's not a major issue. It's actually quite normal in even born muslim societies. Even the first muslims took years to establish the religion. It takes even born muslims years to establish their religion. In Islam as long as you believe in one God, declare Prophet Mohammad (S) as the last and final messenger and have the intention and genuine effort (within your capabilities) to obey Allah's orders even if they are little efforts then you have already passed the main hurdle. And converts usually have passed this hurdle day one. They just burn themselves out by hopping up on that new convert high and forcing changes upon them unnaturally instead of taking it slow. So then the burn out makes them take it slow but that doesn't mean they aren't muslims or be thought of as being in a problematic situation. Perfection is not what Islam asks nor encourages. Might as well call people going through school or college and not yet being able to take the final exam of the final year a major issue. It's natural, it's expected. It's normal. It doesn't go against Islamic law and the converts in question themselves still call themselves muslims.

This sounds marvellous, keep up the good work.

Social isolation is of course a huge factor for the high dropout rate. The key to overcoming it is time and patience. Those who dropout are generally individuals who weren’t Muslim very long and quickly became disappointed. But if you persevere eventually you become part of the community. Keep regularly going to the same Mosque or set of Mosques and slowly you will gain the confidence of the other regulars and leaders of the community. Make an effort to get close to the Imam. Buy him gifts. Again the key is to be active in the community, not a convert whose entire Islam is on the internet and restricted to social media. Enrol in the Madrassah and Hifz school, even if you feel awkward being surrounded by little kids. Get involved with Tablighi Jamaat and you will quickly become part of a very active and engaged community and establish more personal connections than you can handle.

Nick from Channel JannahVersity in New Muslim Crash Course Episode 4 about Sincerity talks about the elephants in the room such as "Did you marry a culture? Did you convert for a person? Did you convert to rebel against dad?" And so on, quite based.

I don’t doubt the high dropout rate. There are many factors some which you mentioned. It’s not a phenomenon limited to converts either. So many immigrants and refugees and their children also sort of “dropout” from Islam when they arrive in Europe. I was in Germany and walking through the Arab areas I was shocked to see so many young Arab men walking around with a beer bottle in their hand. It’s one thing to drink behind closed doors, but for Muslims to be so shameless that they openly drink indicates that they truly did come to the West to experience “freedom”. Of the different immigrant Muslim communities I have observed in Europe (Turks in Germany, North Africans in France, South Asians in UK) it has to be said that the South Asian Muslim community is the most conservative, religious, resistant to assimilation) especially true of the Gujarati Indian Muslim community in Leicester. If you go to places like Leicester, Dewsbury, Birmingham and East London you will see greater Islamic religiosity than even Saudi Arabia.

Where does this statistic come from?

The Statistic seem questionable. Also dedication to the faith determines the success of reverts. If they aren't resilient they'll stop learning about the faith and probably drop off. The successful reverts learn as deeply as possible about Islam and doesn't give up after conversion. The ones that fail are the ones that don't try or they give up. That's just what I think. It's not easy to be a Muslim in the west. Also wouldn't leaving 5 daily prayers cause a Muslim to become an apostate?

Encourage the new male muslims to go on 3 day jammats, , its good to make friends and learn deen and its fun as well.

Robert, people come into Islam wrong. The correct way is to not to tell the convert to cut things out of their life and ONLY add knowledge gathering and prayer little-by-little. People come into Islam wrong mainly because Muslim economic immigrants and students aren't equipped with basic Islamic knowledge, nor prepared to handle dawah related issues.

They really, really read the Quran and Hadith for the first time, and they jumped ship. Perfectly understandable.

Education has given people the chance to think for themselves, and see the conflictions between the truth and so called 'religious' writings. Eventually all people will have an education that will free them from the lies of religion. European education will destroy lsIam.

Why are some converts so relying on some sort of belonging and community support? Surely accepting Islam is accepting the belief regardless of who is there around ? Maybe these people are attracted by the 'idea' but want it like Christianity where you do not practice ? Maybe these people just want to belong to a group ? Maybe shaytan comes straight after them? Maybe Allah is testing them: "Do people think once they say, “We believe,” that they will be left without being put to the test?" - Surah Al-'Ankabut - 2. If their belief is unshakable, they will never leave.

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Oh ez. I'll answer u. When u obfuscate the truth n get gullible ppl to sign up for "time share", sooner or later they realise they've been duped

Have you even read your incoherent trilogy of hate.