Learn How to be You Within Islam

A lot of people go to extremes or fall off of deen completely because they try to change their natural personality and natural being— thinking that it is part of religiosity to eradicate it, rather than refine it and be who you are.

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 ﷺ 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 afterwards.

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 by just how much these two factors cripple a person’s religion.