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Asalamu aleikum, I had just recently adopted Twelver Shi’ism about a week ago from being a practicing Sunni (Hanafi) Muslim. As of right now, I’m currently doubting myself on everything revolving the maintenance of my faith. My parents are Bangladeshi immigrants who are Traditional Hanafis and I frequently go to family gatherings with other Bengali Sunni Muslims who frequently congregate for Salat. I also had just recently graduated from University where I met a lot of great Sunni Muslims who I still interact with today and my Muslim friends are all Sunni. For some perspective about my family, my dad one time saw me praying in sadl position three years ago when I was studying the Maliki school of thought at the time and immediately confronted me after I prayed because “we are a Sunni family, not Shi’a”. Even though I simply corrected him in stating that I was praying in a valid position under one of the mainstream Sunni schools of thought. He still didn’t budge because he didn’t even know what I was talking about (he just blindly follows what other Bengali Hanafis do and he’s not even informed what a madhab even is lol) and so I went back to being Hanafi to avoid any strained relationship. My mom seems to not really care about Shi’as and she prefers unity over communal division. My sister is a “cultural Sunni” who’s agnostic but views Shi’ism as weird. My dad has always forced me to pray at our local Sunni mosque for every Isha and still does (doesn’t bother me anymore since I returned to Islam four years ago but this previous cultural coercion led to my nihilistic atheism phase in my teens). Due to my very Sunni-centric environment, I’m constantly forcefully doubting my Twelver beliefs just to fit back into my normal life. However, I know it’s theologically absurd to change my beliefs on this issue alone but I really do feel some of my Sunni peers will view me as “less Muslim” if I came out as Shi’a. It feels so “two-faced” whenever I’m praying in congregation with Sunnis when I’m intentionally praying alone (my marja is al-Sistani btw). I also love frequenting several mosques in my area for daily prayers and meeting fellow brothers to connect with. There’s only one Shi’a mosque near me that does active programs but doesn’t open up for daily Salah (the main aspect I really miss). The Shi’a mosque is also just packed with frequented Pakistani uncles that I don’t relate with but there are more younger people who show up for Majlis events. This might sound obscure but it honestly does feel like I converted to a different religion on the way I have to attend a certain mosque and hold dissident theological views from my Sunni counterparts.The mourning ritual is what I’m still getting used to and sometimes I just get the constant thoughts in my head, “this is not real Islam”. Despite all of this, my beliefs are still aligned with Twelver Shi’ism but man do I wish I never went down this rabbit hole of searching for deeper truth…

Salam 3aleykom Hi, I am new here. I am an ex-sunni before I move on to the topic I would like to say why i left sunni islam. I have always been a believer, I have never had a doubt about there being a God. I was never a religious person and my family is a very mixed and non religious one. Since I read the first few pages of the Quran, I knew these were not the words of a man, but someone divine and that Islam is the true religion. I also have been following world politics and am a deep thinker about issues, and this led me to connect almost every aspect in my life to what is true and false. It all is connected and makes perfect sense in politics, religion, science, art and culture. We have true and false. I came to realize politically that sunnis align themselves with the enemies of Islam. knowingly or not they are on the wrong side. And if you notice to what the zionists are targeting, it is mainly the Shiaa countries. Bahrain is not a threat as long as the KSA backed minority sunnis are in control. Iraq is gone. Yemen is almost gone. And the only reason they are after Syria now is because they want to stop the supply route to Hezbullah. So it makes sense that the target of the dajjal's system has to be the truth. Another reason i switched to Shiasm is because, I can compare today's corruption and lies, to history's and understand how it could have been the same way 1000 years ago. I guess sunni leadership has always been corrupt. today's sunni leadership are drunken homosexual pedophiles. They usurped the muslim nation's money and use it fund a fitna. They even demolished the obelisk pillar which represents satan in the hajj and erected a meaningless wall to throw pebbles at. now to the topic I wanted to talk about...... Can we pleaaaaaaaaase stop trying to convince the world "there is a God", "Islam is right", Shiasm is right, sunnis are wrong" I am tired of these useless debates. There is absolutely no point! Please understand only God and that person can change his mind, and you are wasting you breath and energy. If a person is sincerely asking then we could help him understand. But if someone is arguing, then he has no sincerity in understanding and is there just to fight you. As a person who recently and late in life has become religious, when I go online to learn more about Islam, almost every Sheikh I listen to talks about why Islam is right, or proofs that there is a God. I already believe in God, so all this convincing is pointless information for me. what I would like to learn is more about Islamic law for example, or how to battle anger and impatience. How to act in a society. I listen to Sheikh Ammar Nakshawani and other Sheikhs and I respect them to the upmost, but even they spend the majority of their lectures just trying to prove or convince us that Shiasm is the truth. As a person who already agrees 100% with that belief... Too much time in lectures are given to these topics and I am not learning anything. We need to stop trying to convince everyone and just start trying to learn how to be better muslims :) Thank you.