A Practical Companion to Belief, Prayer, and Everyday Life
By Dr Yusef Ali
You said the words. Now what? Now That You're Muslim is a companion for the first year — the year in which everything looks the same from the outside and everything is being rebuilt underneath. It explains what Muslims believe and why, walks you through the five pillars in enough detail to begin from these pages alone, and takes on the questions most introductions avoid: how to tell your family, what to do about the mortgage, how to handle the office party, what happens when you miss a week of prayers, and what to write down in case you die. Inside you'll find a prayer quick-reference with every phrase transliterated and translated, a plan for your first Ramadan, a worked zakah calculation, twenty tables, nine checklists, and a twelve-month roadmap you can write on. Mainstream, non-sectarian, and honest about difficulty, this is the first book in The New Muslim Library — a series written in one voice for one reader: the person who has recently entered Islam, or is returning to it, and wants to build a life on it. Written for converts, for those still deciding, and for the people who love them.