Thank you for asking! I’m going back to school, I’m still working on the book, and I just submitted the first 3 chapters to the US Copyright office. So it’s “going,” mashaAllah.

I’m new at this blogging thing, so I wasn’t sure what I would need to do to “update.” But I would be more than happy to add you as a friend if you happen to be on Facebook, or the Muslim social networking site YOU R A CREATOR. If you happen to look me up and have trouble, please narrow your search by location: Bronx, NY.

When I complete the work, some time next year, inshaAllah, I will need all the help I can get in getting the word out, since I will be a relatively unknown new author. I would be more than happy to place you among the first of those getting an autographed copy! All the praise is due to Allah (subhana wa t’ala) for anything I say that is right. Anything I say that is wrong is from myself.

Allahu Akbar

How is everything going? You haven’t updated in a while. How’s the book writing going? Need any help or anything?

Whatever you did brother before reverting is wiped clean.In my personal opinion you don`t have to explain anyone why you did or what you did in the past or now.This is between you and Allahtaala. Allahtaala is roufurraheem..May Allahtaala guide us all to the straight path.

salaam.

I dont think i would be surprised if the poster is a non Muslim peeved at Br. Douglass’ reversion to Islam.

And if it is a Muslim then…looks like they are rather ignorant about their own religion, Allah u Alam.

As you can probably tell, that doesn’t happen very often.

Brother Amad taught me to be thick-skinned in this rough-and-tumble world of blogging. But I simply did not know what to say to someone who I assume is my brother, telling me I am so indecent as to not be welcome within the fold of Islam…”his” religion. I’m sorry. I thought it was the Deen of Allah (subhana wa t’ala).

I also thought that people revert, rather than convert to Islam, so may Allah (swt) forgive me for the haram of suspicion. I was thinking what you were thinking.

While I definitely committed a crime, it did not involve the theft of anything–and even the government admitted that there was no victim. Yet, I have to admit, for a minute there Brother Ibrahim had me second-guessing my own human decency. Is making up an assumed name so disgusting that I cannot ask my Creator for forgiveness, devote the rest of my life to His service, and read Qur’an and offer salat five times a day every day while serving the sentence for my crime?

As a child growing up, I knew nothing about the Hellfire and always believed that the absolute worst thing that could ever happen to someone was to go to prison. Once I went to prison– even at a minimum-security camp with no cells, bars or fences–I learned that there is no punishment worse than Hellfire, and that paying my debt to society, so I could turn my life around and turn to Allah (swt), is the best thing that could have ever happened to me.

Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameeen.

In your religion?! Akhi, this deen is not yours alone.

Religion is for Allah! (Addeenu lillah)

Just because we are Muslim does not mean we own it!

It is not a club where we allow whoever we want in and keep those who we don’t want out.

Besides, according to whose standards do we decide if a person is “decent” enough for us to accept him? Maybe according to someone else’s standards you might not be “decent” enough for them!

If being suspicious wasn’t Haraam in islam, I would have thought that you are a non-muslim trying to cause problems and fitna between the Muslims, because no “decent” Muslim would ever make such a statement.