Fatwa: # 19002
Category: Misc. Fiqh
Country: United Kingdom
Date: 7th September 2010

Title

Unanswered

Question

As-salaamu alaykum,

I am 15 years old and born as an Iranian Twelver Shia. Both my parents are the same. After research I have decided that the Sunnis are cloest to the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW). I have never really been a practicing Muslim and have held Kufr throughout my short life, but when I did get interested in Islam, and after much research, I choose that I would like to practice Islam as a Hanafi Sunni, even though my culture and heritage is Twelver Shia.

Therefore, what I would like to ask is how I go about becoming a Sunni:

1) Do I need to say the Shahadah? Or any special kind of Prayer or Du'a?

2) If I must recite the Shahadah, can I say the Shahadah in private with Allah as my only witness?

3) After saying the Shahadah what must I do? I heard that new converts to Islam should perform Ghusl? Must I do that too?

5) And finally, after all that is done (or whatever else I should do), do I only need to adopt Sunni Aqeedah and Fiqh and implement them in my life?

Jazak'Allahu Khayran.

Answer

 

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