Sallams, my name is Gwen, I’m 28 from the United States. My parents are reverts who converted when I was a toddler, so I consider myself basically born Muslim as it is all I have ever known. I would consider myself a practicing Muslim. Keep my obligations and Sunnah fasts and prayers on a weekly/daily basis. Keep a relationship with the Quran, etc. For the last few years, I have been teaching at an Islamic school and really am either home or at the Masjid. I come from a very small community and have never even had a potential until two months ago. He was introduced to my dad by a family friend. I have had one video call and two regular calls through my father’s phone. We seem to be very similar in terms of superficial things. Hobbies, interests, dispositions, etc. and though I was nervous on the first video call, the two subsequent calls I have felt pretty comfortable, considering I am not really a phone call person and do not have conversations with random men it seemed like a positive thing. The biggest “issue” I see is that I am someone who considers themselves simply Muslim. I try to follow the tenets of the religion and follow the Quran and the Sunnah to the best of my ability. He, on the other hand, is very much a Salafi and I am second-guessing whether this can even work. I have made istikhara since day one and one of the biggest reasons I have continued to move forward is that, exactly a week before my dad presented this potential, I have started reciting istighfar 1000 times a day. I had been scrolling on YouTube and kept seeing videos of how istighfar changed people’s life. Wanting a positive change in my left, I thought why not. When my dad introduced this man a week to the day later, it definitely felt in some ways like fate, but the difference is ideologies is what’s giving me pause. I feel like if I go through with it I might lose of part of myself religiously, despite seeming to really connect in other ways.

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