Maybe you just said the shahada and you’re now Muslim, fully and completely — and also completely unsure what to actually do tomorrow morning. Maybe you grew up Muslim and are coming back to practice after years of distance, and you feel like a beginner in your own religion, which comes with its own quiet embarrassment nobody warned you about. Either way, the internet has handed you a thousand fragmented answers, half of them contradicting the other half, and none of them acknowledging that you’re a whole person with a job, a family, and a life that isn’t pausing while you figure this out.

The First Ninety Days is the book that actually sits with you through that stretch — not a theology textbook, not a list of rules, but a steady, sequenced guide to the first three months, built around one simple idea: you don’t need to become a finished, fully-practicing Muslim by Friday. You need a plan for this week, and then the next one.

This is Book Two in the Ihsan Editions Islamic Lifestyle Guides collection — 60 pages, fully illustrated, and written with equal care for brand-new converts and for born-Muslims finding their way back.

What’s actually inside

12 chapters, sequenced roughly across a real ninety-day arc — from what matters in week one to what a fourth month might look like:

Day One — what actually matters this week (hint: far less than you think), and what you can genuinely set aside for later
The Five, Simplified — learning salah without shame, broken into pieces small enough to actually start
Wudu, Explained Plainly — the full step-by-step sequence, what breaks it, and what to do when water isn’t available
The Words You’ll Hear Everywhere — a practical phrasebook for the Arabic phrases that show up in every Muslim conversation, so you’re never lost in a room again
Reading the Quran When You Can’t Read Arabic Yet — three parallel tracks (meaning, recitation, script) so you can start today without waiting to be fluent
Telling Your Family and Friends — pacing the conversation on your own terms, for converts and for those returning to practice, including what to do if it doesn’t go well
Finding Community Without Losing Yourself — navigating mosque culture shock, and keeping the friendships that matter to you
Your Changing Daily Life — food, dress, and old habits handled gradually and without guilt, because Islamic law itself was revealed in stages
Relationships, Dating, and Family Expectations — a direct, compassionate look at dating, marriage to a non-Muslim spouse, and family pressure around marriage
The Questions Nobody Wants to Ask Out Loud — doubt, grief for your old life, feeling like a fraud, and whether your motivations were “pure enough” to count
Building a Sustainable Practice — avoiding the all-or-nothing burnout pattern that derails so many new and returning Muslims by month three
Ninety Days Later — what comes next: structured learning, finding a mentor, and giving back to someone a few weeks behind you

Plus 6 appendices designed to be lived in, not just skimmed:

A 90-day progress tracker — a gentle map, not a scoreboard, across all twelve weeks
A fuller Arabic phrasebook — eighteen essential phrases with meaning and exact usage
A consolidated FAQ covering the practical questions that come up constantly and rarely get a straight answer
An illustrated, step-by-step prayer walkthrough — a full table covering every position and recitation of a two-rak’ah prayer
A short surah starter pack — what to learn first and why, without a page of transliteration standing in for a real reciter’s audio
A glossary of every Arabic term used in the book

Written to actually be believed, not just read

Every claim is tied to something real — Quranic verses cited by surah and ayah, hadith cited by collection, so nothing here is just a stranger’s opinion dressed up as certainty. And where something is genuinely hard — doubt, grief, family rejection, feeling like you’re not doing enough — this book doesn’t rush past it to get to the encouraging part.

A taste, from Chapter One:

“Whatever you did or didn’t do before this point, whatever mistakes, whatever version of yourself existed last month or last year, none of it is a debt you’re now working to pay off. You’re starting genuinely clean.”

And from the final chapter:

“The version of your practice at day ninety should look meaningfully different from day one, but it shouldn’t look finished — and it never fully will, for anyone, at any stage of a sincere religious life.”

Who this is for

Anyone who has recently taken the shahada and needs a real starting sequence, not just a reading list
Muslims returning to practice after years away, who feel like a beginner and don’t know who’s safe to ask
Anyone who’s tried to “do it all at once” before and burned out by month two
Parents, spouses, and friends who want to understand what someone they love is actually going through
Anyone who’s Googled the same basic question five times because they were too embarrassed to ask a person

It was not written to replace a mentor, a local imam, or a new-Muslim support program — it actively encourages you to find one, and tells you exactly why that relationship matters more than any book, including this one.

What you’re getting

A fully illustrated 60-page e-book, delivered as a Word document (.docx) — read it on your phone at 2am or print it and write in the margins
23 custom illustrations, including five made specifically for this book, in the warm gold-and-ink style shared across the Ihsan Editions collection
A working table of contents with accurate page numbers
A full illustrated prayer walkthrough table you can prop open next to you while you practice
Instant download — no waiting, start tonight

Part of a larger collection

The First Ninety Days is one of six titles in the Islamic Lifestyle Guides series from Ihsan Editions — practical, illustrated e-books for living Islam with intention. The collection also includes guides on Ramadan, faith at work, halal personal finance, raising a family, and preparing for marriage, each one meant to be used, not just read once and shelved.

A closing thought

Islam is a lifelong project, not a ninety-day certification, and by the time you finish this book you almost certainly won’t have everything figured out — that’s exactly as it should be. Every practicing Muslim you’ll ever meet, however settled and confident they seem, is still walking the same open-ended road you’re just beginning.

Welcome, or welcome back. May the next ninety days be steadier than the last — and the ninety after that, steadier still.

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