A New Muslim's Diary

The boot is the foundation of my faith. When my faith is well founded with a good boot size, only then can I get up and start walking. After I made this analogy, I discovered a quote in the Qur'an, "Have you not considered how Allah presents an example, [making] a good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches [high] in the sky?" Simple coincidental occurrence? But to me, it means a whole lot more.

"How did you know it was the right time for you to convert?" After all, I was reading, listening, believing completely and changing my outlook on life, but I still didn't know what the 'right' time was. My friend said, "There isn't a right time, Sister. Knowledge will always come to you along the way. You just have to know that your heart is there."

Why is it evil to want to know the reasons why the Church teachings go a certain way? And if it is evil, why can't you give me an answer so I won't be led down evil? Why do you say I am not ready? When will I be?

After talking to the people I have encountered with so far, I began to ask myself, ultimately, do the questions I am asking really matter? After all, it is unlike me to care so much about the trivial 'technicalities' of my Faith, but I kind of mind more that my faith should be able to help ME grow with God.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And...

Fed up with the analogies trying to explain the concept of the Trinity, I decided to compile my own list of quotes from the Bible to sieve out whether or not Jesus ever mentioned that He is equal to, or part of God. The result? Even he rejects it.