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Your first steps in Islam
One step at a time, in the order they usually come up. Open a step, read it, then come back and mark it done — the path grows as you go.
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STAGE 1
Why am I here?
The question underneath every other question.
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The purpose of life
Answer this and a lot of Islam stops looking arbitrary.
No Design
The universe runs on numbers tuned far too finely to be an accident.
Why Islam?
The reasons — then the objections people push back with.
STAGE 2
Is it true?
A claim this large should come with evidence you can check.
The Quran
Where it came from, and how it was preserved word for word.
Science & Islam
Things the Quran described a thousand years before anyone could check.
Prophet Muhammed ﷺ
A man nobody had ever called a liar — until he said what people did not want to hear.
STAGE 3
The questions people ask
Taken on with what the sources say.
Jesus in Islam
Muslims love Isa (as) too. What we hold, and where it meets what you were taught.
Women's rights
The claims people make, each one against what the sources actually say.
The hijab
What it is, and what it is not.
STAGE 4
The Shahada
One sentence, said with belief. Both roads meet here.
MILESTONE
The testimony of faith
Nothing to book, nobody whose permission you need.
STAGE 5
Your first prayers
Wudu, then salah. Everything else can wait a little.
Learn about Islam
The beliefs and the five pillars, laid out as a primer.
How to make wudu
Learn this before salah — salah needs it. Ten minutes at a sink.
How to pray
The positions, the words, and what to do when you lose count.
STAGE 6
Building the habit
The rest of the first year, in the order it tends to come up.
Dhikr & dua
Duas sorted by when you would reach for them.
How to fast
Dawn to sunset — and the route for the days you genuinely cannot.
How to give zakat
Who owes it and how it is worked out. Most new Muslims do not owe it yet.
Bare ground for now. Every step you finish plants a tree here.
Nothing here is a deadline. If a step takes a fortnight, it takes a fortnight.