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I was raised in split households, one Christian and one Jewish, and figuring out where I belong has always been a struggle.

I am LGBT, I'm not comfortable stating where I fall in that acronym, but I have been doing research and there are so many different opinions and many of them are backed by different scripture. Is it even possible for me to be Muslim with who I am?

People always say that God doesn't make mistakes but also of God makes you a certain way you can't act or be how you are cause he made made you that as a test and if you decide to be yourself (whether bi, gay, trans, etc) youre actually disappointing God, and you're going to be punished for having the audacity to be as you were made?

There is so much beauty in Islam and I love the beauty, but I feel so stunted and confused and I feel like I'll never belong somewhere because of these things.

Jumah Mubarak to my brother and sisters,

How can we tell the difference of when Allah SWT has blocked a way for us in something or whether we should persist until it happens?

Context -

Say for example I’m asking Allah SWT in my duas to help me find an investor for a business I want to start but nothing has happened yet. ie every window has been closed so far

Is there a point where we see this as it was not meant for you or do we continue to look for open windows and opportunities?

I’m torn between the two as it’s my dream to open my own business and has been so for many years. Im always envisioning how it will look and how it can help my community, while also pondering on whether this is what Allah SWT has planned for me or not.

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by Asma bint Shameem

You’ve been making Duaa to Allaah Subhaanahu wa Ta’aala for a long time. You’re begging. You’re crying. You’re asking Him. But there is no response.

And you wonder “why”?

Why is it that your Duaa is not answered? Is Allaah not listening to you?

Well, sometimes it may SEEM like Allaah didn’t accept our duaa although in reality He DID.

Thats because the RESPONSE to the duaa may take different forms:

1. Allaah will respond and give you exactly what you made the duaa for

2. He will turn away some evil or harm from you because of the duaa, or

3. He will save it for you for the Day of Resurrection when you will need it the most.

🍃 The Prophet sal Allaahu Alayhi wa sallam said:

“There is no Muslim who calls upon Allaah with words in which there is no sin or severing of family ties but Allaah will give him one of three things: either He will answer his prayer soon, or He will store it up for him in the Hereafter, or He will remove something bad from him that is equivalent to what he is asking for.”

They said, “Then we should make a great amount of du’aa’.”

He said, “Allaah is greater.” (at-Tirmidhi -saheeh by al-Albaani)

Our Deen encourages us to make a LOT of duaa, and we shouldn’t be hasty in seeking a response.

That’s because duaa is a most beautiful act of Ibaadah and is so beloved to Allaah Subhaan Allaah.

So we MUST ALWAYS make duaa and NEVER give up.

But the Shaytaan does not want us to make duaa and have it accepted. So he whispers in our head and puts doubts in our minds about Allaah Subhaanahu wa Ta’aala and makes us lose hope.

However, we can NEVER lose hope or despair.

Remember, NO ONE despairs of Allaah except those that are astray.

🍃 Allaah says:

[Ibraheem] said: "And who despairs of the Mercy of his Lord except those who are astray?" (Surah al-Hijr:56)

So have GOOD HOPES with Allaah and know that Allaah WILL respond to our duaas sooner or later.

If He’s not responding ’now’, He will respond ‘later’.

🍃 The Prophet sal Allaahu Alayhi wa sallam said:

“The duaa of any one of you will be answered so long as he is not impatient and says, I made duaa but it was not answered.” (al-Bukhaari and Muslim)

🍃 Ibn al-Jawzi said about duaa not being answered right away:

“I think part of the test is when a believer supplicates and receives no response, and he repeats the du’aa’ for a long time and sees no sign of a response. He should realize that this is a TEST and needs PATIENCE.

1️⃣What a person experiences of waswaas when the response is delayed is a sickness which needs medicine, I have experienced this myself.

A calamity befell me and I supplicated and did not see any response, and Iblees started to lay his traps.

Sometimes he said : The generosity (of Allaah) is abundant and He is not miserly, so why is there a delay?

I said to him: Be gone, O cursed one, for I have no need of anyone to argue my case and I do not want you as a supporter!

Then I told myself: Beware of going along with his whispers, for if there was no other reason for the delay except that Allaah is testing you to see whether you will fight the enemy, that is sufficient wisdom.

My soul (nafs) said: How could you explain the delay in the response of Allaah to your prayers for relief from this calamity?

I said: It is proven with evidence that Allaah, may He be glorified and exalted, is the Sovereign, and the Sovereign may withhold or give, so there is no point in objecting to Him.

2️⃣The wisdom behind that is proven in definitive evidence. I may think that something is good, but wisdom does not dictate it, but the reason for that may be hidden, just as a doctor may do things that appear outwardly to be harmful, intending some good purpose thereby. Perhaps this is something of that nature.

3️⃣There may be an interest to be served by delay, and haste may be harmful.

The Prophet Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam said:

“A person will be fine so long as he does not become impatient and says, ‘I prayed but I did not receive any answer.’”

4️⃣The response may be withheld because of some FAULT in you.

Perhaps there was something dubious in what you ate or your heart was heedless at the time when you said the du’aa’, or your punishment is being increased by means of your need being withheld, because of some sin from which you have not repented sincerely.

So look for some of these reasons, so that you might achieve your aim.”

Subhaan Allaah what a beautiful explanation of why duaa may not be answered right away.

So as Ibn Jawzi said, sometimes there may be reasons why Duaa may not be accepted.

For example;

• the person is not sincere to Allaah
• or he has haraam wealth
• or involved in sins
• or he is negligent of his obligations to Allaah like not being regular with the five daily prayers.
• or he has broken ties of kinship
• or he’s hasty or impatient in making duaa
• or it may even be a test of patience for the person.

-or Allaah loves to hear the person call out to Him and show his need for Him.

And Allaah knows best.

I want to hear from people who have learned to be grateful and have the best thoughts of Allah no matter what hardship Allah puts in their path or what He does with your duas. How do you achieve this, I hate some of my thoughts about Allah sometimes and want to rectify this. How to build hope and gratitude in the middle of pain

Could someone give me a brief message about important words and phrases in Islam? I've seen a lot of things said, but I don't really understand what they mean and I'm too nervous to really ask around until I found this subreddit.

This is the profile of someone who recently posted in this subreddit. They have uploaded a post for "converting to islam" while also going straight into people's dms. Their background is of uncensored breasts and have been active in subreddits such as "bangalore sluts" and "stretchmarktits" while also flirting within aforementioned subs.

Ascalamualkum everyone. Just want to share what I feel, cause I feel really down from the past few days. Idk what I want from this, just want to post it lol, will delete probably like always I post and feel like 2 hours later, I'm being un thankful.

I'm not complaining at all, just want to share my feelings.

Idk what it is but I really have like nostalgic feelings. I miss my old days, and just beings tears in my eyes to think about it. It's like my chest is heavy.

About 3-5 years ago, it's so dumb but I used to have a group chat. I made it on Instagram and got some random people to join. I was like 16ish, didn't know all the rulings of islam and talking to girls and all. I made it and it was like Corona virus time, online classes and all. So I would talk all day, joke, troll, that was like it gave me so much happiness. Like I would wake up for classes and be so excited to massage the group and see what everyone talked about while I was sleeping. I don't know anyone in real life from that group. Want want to tell the names but their were people from 🇿🇦🇨🇦🇮🇳🇵🇰🇸🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇫.

Everyone was like 16-20 ish lol.

It was so nice man. After I realized like 2 years later or a year and a half later that it's wrong to talk to females and all, I was like I gotta stop. So I left the group. But then i just couldn't leave, I got back, I left again, and someone added me back, and so on for some time. Eventually I was like I gotta just leave, i started on my prayers and was trying my best, fasting and all, giving dawah etc.. I eventually just left one day. The people kept adding me back but I keep leaving without messaging. Tbh it hurts. I texted my friends evtually like I dont want to talk, but I just felt so down, I would send like salam, how are you to them, would be so happy like they will reply. It's not even about girl or boy, it's just for all of them I felt so happy. Evtually i asked them all the girls like can you delete my chats, and they said sure. One of them would every now and then ask how are you, I'd just keep it simple and reply back. I would get the urge idk why to just ask how they are, I would send the message, 10 mins later check it and unsend it.

Idk why, I still remember stuff from the group. Things we talked about, the people, and even their @s.

Am I just stupid? I feel so dumb and stupid to be crying over that. Idk why I think about it. I just miss it. It makes me feel.so weird to think like right now those people are involved in their lives, doing something totally diffrent, and how everyone has their own lives. It's not just that group. But fir me that group was too big of a deal. I feel so dumb. Like they probably dont even remember, or think about me, why would they. But why am I. Like I can't remove the thoughts.

Ah man. I look at the sky and feel so sad. I miss one of the people in the group, who passed away. It's so wierd like I live in America and I think about it, one of the people, she is from 🇿🇦, it's so wierd like shes all the way on the other side of the planet. She has her life, everyone's life so different, everyone is doing their own thing.

Just what I feel. But not complaining, cause I left it for the sake of Allah.

i feel like every muslim man i’ve come across wants kids, but personally it’s not something i see myself wanting. i don’t have a motherly instinct and i am a very low energy person. it makes me worried id be either single forever or have to give into something i don’t really want. and i think all kids deserve parents that wanted them. i’m not asking to be told that mh opinion will change blah blah. just wanted to see if any men want a childless home.

Assalamalaikum friends…

I am about two years into my journey as a Muslim hijabi, and I have found that it’s time for me to get out of my comfort zone and begin my attempt at making clothing. There are so many inspiring women (and men) behind modest clothing brands and I am feeling empowered to take that step and try making some things for myself, and hopefully others inshallah.

I am open to any advice, support, or resources that any of you have to share!

I’m nervous!!!

Assalaam Alaikum ! I am a convert I converted 8 months ago and have been with my Muslim husband for more than 1 year. My family is very unhappy with me being a Muslim especially my mom and all she can think of is I’m only converting to Islam because of him and that he has “brainwashed” me . I’m very close with her and with my family and I’m around them everyday even though me and my husband live together. we live in a very small town and I want to start wearing a hijab but if my mother sees me with it she will literally throw me out of her life she’s so embarrassed by me being a Muslim and sometimes I lose my faith because of the thoughts that I don’t want to loser her because of this

I just want some advice if someone have been through the same thing about nearly losing your family members because of Islam.? I just feel like I will never get to be myself unless I lose them. Does anyone been through the same thing and work it out with your family I already tried to explain to my mother what Islam is but she has always had the wrong thoughts about it

My husband (24M) and I (27F) got Islamically married over 1 year ago. I had just reverted to Islam a month before we married, but we were dating for a year prior. So in total, we have been a couple for 2 years.

I am due to have my baby in 2 weeks... Yesterday I caught my husband texting another woman. He was sexually unfaithful before but swore not to repeat this. So to find out that he was messaging another woman was devastating.

He doesn't want to attend counseling, talk to his parents or speak to an Imam. His only two options were for him to remain 'unhappy' or to divorce. I can't raise a child in a family where one side doesn't want to be there. He will eventually cheat again, if that is the case.

So that leaves divorce. I don't want to but this is what he has been leading up to. He feels like his dignity is gone since the first infidelity and that I am the problem. He is choosing to look at all the negatives and not see the progress or positives.

Has anyone been through this before? I feel so alone and frightened.

I’m gonna be really blunt here so I hope I don’t offend anyone, this is just my experience. I’m considering reverting to Islam from Christianity and I also have religious ocd. For months I’ve been doing research and have come to the conclusion that yes, Christianity has been corrupted and that Islam looks the most legit. However, I’m struggling with some of the concepts and it’s made me very depressed the past months. I just feel so disconnected from God and it’s making me wonder if it’s the same god as when I was Christian. As a Christian I never prayed to Jesus anyway, just God.

When I was a Christian I teetered on believing in universalism, the belief that everyone at some point goes to heaven—some just get there sooner than others. If people go to hell, it’s sort of like a purification process and once it’s done they become “good” and go to heaven. In Islam, it seems like there’s no chance for redemption if you don’t believe and you just go to hell. If you’re non Muslim but Christian or Jewish and believed in God’s oneness then it seems like you could make it to Jannah, but this all depends on God’s mercy. It’s honestly made me very stressed and sad for the decent people I know that might not be believers, but try to do the right thing. I know they will be rewarded in this life for their good deeds, but then what is the point if they will just suffer later on?

On top of that, wudu has really triggered my ocd. When I was younger I would spend hours redoing prayers because I stuttered or mispronounced something or just simply felt that it wasn’t good enough for God. I don’t want to fall into this pattern again. I also have IBS and usually have to redo or restart wudu or salat because I pass wind. This is very stressful and annoying because what’s supposed to take 7 mins then takes 30 and so on. Some people I’ve spoken to say it’s a test, but telling someone with ocd that their ocd is a test honestly just makes them feel even worse. I’ve also heard that farting invalidates your wudu/prayer and this stresses me out because why would something my body naturally does invalidate my prayer? I understand not praying on the toilet or having to redo wudu if you use the bathroom, but farts aren’t as easy to hold as holding your urge to pee/defecate.

I thought people were being superstitious when saying this because no one would ever give textual evidence until I saw a Hadith the other day where The Prophet (saw) said that God will not accept one’s prayer if he farts until he redoes wudu. For someone with both IBS and ocd this feels horrible. I cant control my gas despite medicine and etc. The ocd already makes me worried that I’m not good enough and that God won’t answer. I just don’t understand why a compassionate God would ignore my prayer if I accidentally passed wind. I learned yesterday too that I have to make wudu just to touch/read the Quran and of course if I pass wind I will have to stop reading and do wudu again. I understand needing discipline but I just feel like I have to jump through so many hoops just to do these simple things. I always hear people say Islam is simple and easy compared to Christianity and it doesn’t feel that way right now. If Islam isn’t the truth then I don’t know what is. But I don’t know how to carry on.

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I’m a revert of 4 years and married. My family is comprised of mostly practicing christians.

They don’t talk to me anymore and they don’t interact with me. My hijab pushes my mom away and when I do go to see them they awkwardly just group up distantly from me.

At first I didn’t care because I know that the people who aren’t guided don’t understand the sweetness of guidance. I constantly make dua that they revert and I know that it’ll take some time bc unlearning misinformation takes time.

But now it’s starting to hit me. My brother is the only one who treats me like I’m normal and the rest don’t.

Any advice?

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How to debate an agnostic scientist?

As salamu alaikum

Over the weekend I spent some time with friends of which one is a biologist in the field of early organisms and their evolution.

She is a lovely person and there’s no animosity between us and we both respect our opinions and enjoy reasoning with each other.

We came to the conversation of a creator which I argued using the infinite regress fallacy as well as the fine tuning of our existence.

This seemed to have struck a chord with her and her argument was based on arguing we have no hard evidence and as a scientist she can’t agree on a creator on the basis that ‘we just don’t know and we will never know’

Mostly she was alluding to the fact that my argument shouldn’t be truth if we don’t know. She also didn’t agree that infinity needs something to start it as there’s isn’t any proof of that and that we as humans have a tendency to have to find a beginning when from a quantum physics point of view it could very well be the case that infinite goes far beyond our human understanding and that beyond our realm maybe it doesn’t require a beginning.

Our conversation ended after 3 hours with the simple conclusion that she is agnostic.

Debating an atheist imo is very different to an agnostic and after our conversation I’ve also realised there are 2 types of agnostics.

1. Those who are agnostic with a somewhat inclination towards a creator

2. Agnostics who use the argument to make a case that we will never know and therefore there is no point in looking into it. Almost a nihilist approach.

I think that with all research and discovery, it requires both evidence (of which I do see) and then spiritual faith.

This could also be in her own research where if not for some faith in her scientific research she wouldn’t press further in trying to understand early bacterial life forms. She uses scientific data and evidence to further her understanding of her own research to find new answers but ultimately she has to have faith that the evidence before moves towards what she is looking to discover.

I don’t see any difference between this and the argument of a creator.

How would you approach this discussion with an agnostic who is resigned from looking into the existence of a creator?

I’m more looking for scientific and philosophical debate as opposed to Quranic verses. However I’m open to Quranic verses that could further the argument for a creator too

Alhamdullilah this has definitely pushed me towards improving my reasoning skills and ignited a new drive to seek further knowledge.

I’m a recent revert, but my family has always been very Islamophobic and I’m not allowed to wear the hijab around them (probably). Is there anything I can do to make up for this? Because I’ve been feeling “bald” without my hijab 😔

I’m not a revert btw 😭