Assalamu'aleikom!

First of all I would like to thank you and commend you for this wonderful service that you are providing. May Allah subhanawataala reward you for your efforts. I am indeed a Muslim, a very new Muslim. I took the shahada, Alhamdulilah, on August 2006.

As far as a Masjid in my area... I am an American living overseas with my wife, I used to serve US Navy, but my term finished and I opted not to re-enlist.

Inshallah, my wife will do the same soon. The nearest Masjid is a two hour train ride away from where we live. I make every effort to get there as often as I can, which at the moment is very difficult. I am grateful my wife and I are going to move back to the US where there is a Masjid within 20 minutes from where we will be!

My wife is not yet ready to become a Muslim, she believes in the oneness of Allah subhanawataala, however, she finds difficulty when it comes to the prophets. In her own words, she says, "I follow the ten commandments, isn't that enough?" I know my wife is coming around, slowly, and inshallah, Allah subhanawataala will open her heart as he has done for me. She is actually looking forward to going to the US too, she said she would like to speak directly to the Imam, and wants to take lessons. She does not go to the Masjid here where we are now because it is so far away.

As far as the question, what was it that made me make my decision, this is a long answer that I will simplify the best I can... my family raised me with good morals and taught me about the God and angels as far as their understanding was. We prayed at night but never went to church. When I was 10 my parents and I converted and became Mormons, where I was taught that God was God, Jesus (Isa, alaihi salaam) was a God, and that when all the prophets died, they became Gods, and when I died, if I was righteous I could become a God and have my own planet and that there were many Gods, many "earths" and many other things that I really didn't believe in my heart, but as a kid, had to accept them because you know, as a kid, your parents are never wrong.

Long story short, as I got older, I stopped attending church and explored other churches, but was confused because there were so many, yet they all claimed to follow the Bible, so I just read the Bible and tried to find understanding myself.

2 years ago my wife found out she was pregnant, and 7 months later, we had a miscarriage... a little girl. I didn't know what to do at this point in my life.... to baptize her of not, bury her or not... so many questions... to me she was a person, but to many, she was not because she hadn't been born yet. I was lost saddened because I had given up my search to find God before reaching the truth. He had never left me, but it was me...

I decided to search all religions until I found an answer... my search was shocking... who wrote the Bible... Hindu's even believe in one God, but feel they need the idols as mediators... every -ism I searched... but not Islam. In my mind I already knew Islam was a violent religion that I wanted no part of, until I was watching the TV and some Shaykh was on, I don't know who, defending Islam. I was intrigued by what he said, and went to Dr. Google to see if what he was saying was true... and after some time, many days reading about Islam online, and watching online videos, I ordered a Qu'ran from Amazon.com... I began to read, and didn't even make it through Sura Al Baqarah before I began shedding tears... I cannot tell you how many times I cried in my reading of the Qu'ran... all of my research was already placed into the Qu'ran, it was confirming what I already knew to be true... Sura Al Israa Ayat 81 "And Say: "The truth has now arrived, and Falsehood perished; for Falsehood is (by it's nature) bound to perish".

Long story short, I didn't even make it through the entire Qu'ran before I was feeling guilty that I was not praying 5 times a day... I felt, how ungrateful I have been to the one who created me. And after many, many months, I knew it was time to make everything formal, and I traveled to Tokyo to take the shahada. I met one Muslim brother there that I keep in contact with.

The thing that attracked me most to Islam besides the truth, was the oneness of Allah subhanawataala, and I think the most important thing for me to understand is the qualities and attributes of him. I don't want to attribute things to him falsely from my former Mormon stand-point without any right to do so. I think this is called Tawheed? The oneness of Allah subhanawataala... but I am not sure if there is a name for knowing his qualities... nit his names, but what he has revealed about himself. For example, we know that he has a location... outside of this creation... above the heavens and the earth.

Also, I would like to know more about the prophets for my wife's sake, and mine too. I explain to my wife a little, but it is my opinion I refer to her as to the need for prophets.

I am not sure who to trust when it comes to Tafsir... I know that the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam, gave tafsir in the Hadith, but I don't know if this is condenssed into a book? or if there is condensed hadith? Maybe I am talking crazy? Hahaha...

Anything you think would be beneficial to me.

Wasallam-