What made you decide to leave sectarian Islam?
My story in short: Once a day i was praying in a mosque. Before the prayer, i was talking with someone. While talking, i asked him something like "do you know this hadith". He responded, or i heard him saying, "sorry, no i dont follow ahadith".
In my mind i was like, how can he follow Islam without following the ahadith. I kept silence, and we both went our own way. So when i was back at home, i started searching for "no-hadith" Islam, on the internet.
I saw Rashad Khalifa, and he had some really good points, like: following God alone, Quran alone etc. So that's when i started thinking about leaving sectarian Islam. I was a salafi, the most orthodox and extreme form of sectarian Islam.
After a while, i started noticing that also Rashad Khalifa didn't speak 100% the truth. So i started listening more to Edip Yuksel. Edip said that prayer was 3 times a day etc., and i also was thinking that it was 3 times a day, and not 5 times, like Rashad said etc.
But then as well Edip did say some things, that i don't agree on. And that's when i started searching on my own to the truth. I stopped following people, and so called teachers etc.
I started believing in Quranic Islam. And while reading the Quran more and more, i started reading about the Bible. So once, on a day, God showed me a person, who made me think, to start reading the Bible, and the Quran. So i started reading them both. While reading, i started seeing the big picture. And i now believe in both of them. I am still learning Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.
Everything made sense, the Catholics, the Sunnis, the Pharisees, etc.
I don't follow any groups anymore. And i don't follow a teacher. The Books are my teacher, and God alone can guide me. So yeah, i think that i am now on the right track. I still have to learn a lot, but at least God saved me from those sectarian groups, and teached me that it is important to learn on your own and keep praying for the truth.