I patiently waited through the entire Dawah script, just as soon as i was about to show the very different versions of the Quran, actual different words, they wanted to end the conversation.

I answered the Jesus is God question to them, said that the Kaaba is a sacred stone which the bible says not to have, and the fact Mohammed’s angel encounter is far different from the encounter with angels in the bible. Got about 5-8 minutes in talking myself

Then i sat there and listened to 45 minutes of the same things i always here Muslims say but the whole point of this post is

If there were different versions and words of the Quran, how would you feel?

An online survey drew in over 1000 respondents:

-Mostly children of immigrants. -Now seeking job in London, New York, Montreal or Dubai.

Assalamu’ Alaykum! I was wondering what people mean when you’ll be in your graves longer than in the world. I understand that after death you won’t go back to the dunya, but does this mean we will be like “stuck in our graves” consciously?

As in are we waiting to be sent to Jannah or (Astaghfruillah) Jannaham? I keep imagining just being stuck in my grave, but I keep imagining it’s like being buried alive. 😭 please help me to understand.

salam.

Man A: doesn't have any feelings, wants, needs, personality, but he fears allah. he only has Allah as his motivation for doing things. he exercises only and only because he wants to fit like prophet sallallah, he gives charity not to help others, but to only to please Allah by doing it. so to others he seems very caring and giving. but inside he couldn't care less about others. he only cares about Allah. he (literally) has no love of anything in him except for Allah.

Or

Man B: he practices islam just the same as the man A. but he has his emotions and personal wants. sometimes his emotions are opposing Islamic teachings, so he doesn't listen to them, and sometimes his emotions are in favor of Islamic teachings, and it just makes him more comfortable when doing them. yet the end goal is still Allah. he loves and fears allah just the same as Man A. his intentions of doing good deeds and not doing sins is still all for Allah. he just has personal emotions too.

so you could say the only difference between Man A and Man B is that Man A actively suppresses all his emotions, while Man B suppresses only the ones that call to haram. he doesn't suppress his emotions if they are calling twords halal.

which one is the good example for a Muslim to be?

Assalam o Alaikum Hope everyone's doing well

I'm just looking for a platform where i can teach quran ( virtually ) if u know such platform than do let me know about it

JazakAllaho Khaira ❤️

(Mods, please do not delete this. I am truly in need for help and not in any means trying to troll or disrespect anyone.)

Hello everyone!

This going to be a long read and I hope that you will read it all in order to help me clarify my doubts and correct me if I misunderstood some concepts here.

First of all, I am from an Islamic country. I was born Muslim and I am (still) a Muslim.

Before you begin reading, I want to clarify that I am NOT a troll or just someone trying to waste your time. I am a Muslim in doubt and in desperate search for answers. I am expecting serious answers from people who know much more than I do and who can backup their claims/arguments with valid and truthful sources. I really hope I can find answers and clarifications to the things I am going to list below because this is going to define the future of my beliefs and decide if I will remain a Muslim with a stronger faith than ever, or not.

Now, about the main topic of this post:

In the recent weeks, I started having doubts about Islam, my mind is getting filled with questions that I can't seem to find the answers to and wish to get answers to all of them. I always had doubts in my life but I always found answers to them because my doubts were kind of idiotic and not as "big". This post is going to have titles/sections about each question with its source from the Quran, my view about it and what is bothering me.

First Point: How Did Satan (Iblis) Refuse to Prostrate to Adam while He Was in Heaven?

From the Quran (Surat Al Hijr):

So the angels prostrated all together—

but not Iblîs, who refused to prostrate with the others.

Allah asked, “O Iblîs! What is the matter with you that you did not join others in prostration?”

He replied, “It is not for me to prostrate to a human You created from sounding clay moulded from black mud.”

Allah commanded, “Then get out of Paradise, for you are truly cursed.

And surely upon you is condemnation until the Day of Judgment.”

According to Islam, Heaven is a place where hearts are full of purity, blessings and happiness with no hate and no negativity whatsoever. And from the verse above, Satan refused to prostrate when Allah (SWT) ordered him to. Where did this hate and arrogance come from if Heaven is pure? Iblis considered himself superior to Adam and that is something that should not be possible in Heaven.

Second Point: How Did Satan Whisper to Adam in Heaven?

We all know that Satan whispered to Adam in Heaven and here is the source from the Quran (Surat Al-A'Raf):

˹Allah said,˺ “O Adam! Live with your wife in Paradise and eat from wherever you please, but do not approach this tree, or else you will be wrongdoers.”

Then Satan tempted them in order to expose what was hidden of their nakedness. He said, “Your Lord has forbidden this tree to you only to prevent you from becoming angels or immortals.”

And he swore to them, “I am truly your sincere advisor.”

So he brought about their fall through deception. And when they tasted of the tree, their nakedness was exposed to them, prompting them to cover themselves with leaves from Paradise. Then their Lord called out to them, “Did I not forbid you from that tree and ˹did I not˺ tell you that Satan is your sworn enemy?”

What is bothering me here and making me wonder so much is how was Satan able to "trick" Adam and his wife into eating the fruit if Adam and his wife were in Heaven while Satan got expelled from it? How did Satan communicate with them?

Third Point: Marrying Non-Muslims

In Surat Al-Baqarah it says:

Do not marry polytheistic women until they believe; for a believing slave-woman is better than a free polytheist, even though she may look pleasant to you. And do not marry your women to polytheistic men until they believe, for a believing slave-man is better than a free polytheist, even though he may look pleasant to you. They invite ˹you˺ to the Fire while Allah invites ˹you˺ to Paradise and forgiveness by His grace. He makes His revelations clear to the people so perhaps they will be mindful.

The order is clear here: Do NOT marry polytheistic women and men.

In Surat Al-Ma'idah it says:

Today all good, pure foods have been made lawful for you. Similarly, the food of the People of the Book is permissible for you and yours is permissible for them. And ˹permissible for you in marriage˺ are chaste believing women as well as chaste women of those given the Scripture before you—as long as you pay them their dowries in wedlock, neither fornicating nor taking them as mistresses. And whoever rejects the faith, all their good deeds will be void ˹in this life˺ and in the Hereafter they will be among the losers.

Here, it clearly says that Muslim men are allowed to marry chaste women (from the people of the book). Which means women that are not Muslim, but pure women from other religions (Christianity, Judaism).

So those people of the book, and more precisely those chaste women, are pure but still don't believe in Islam and the Quran which makes them non believers (Kafirun) even though Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) came with the message of Islam that is the true on only religion.

So Muslim men are allowed to marry those chaste women (even though they are not Muslim and they assign partners to Allah (SWT) which makes them polytheists or Mushrikun) according to the Ayah in Surat Al-Ma'idah, but Muslims were clearly ordered NOT to marry non believers and polytheists in Surat Al-Baqarah.

Fourth Point: Misunderstandings in Islam

Islam is a very clear religion with a clear book according to Surat Al-Ma'idah:

O People of the Book! Now Our Messenger has come to you, revealing much of what you have hidden of the Scriptures and disregarding much. There certainly has come to you from Allah a light and a clear Book

If Islam and the Quran are clear and can't be misunderstood, then why there are many branches (Sunni, Shia, Ibadi, Kharijite)? Why there are so many disagreements between Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims? Aren't Muslims supposed to be brothers and one Ummah. How are there different interpretations of Islam between these branches?

This is all I can recall at the moment. I hope I get serious answers with clear proof.

Thank you for reading!

I've noticed that 99% of the time when Muslims try to ask for help on how to deal with extremely abusive and toxic family members, the answer is always to "have sabr" or "it's haram to cut off your family members", never anything practical or helpful.

This justification is especially present when the abusers happen to be parents. One example is a story I heard about someone who was being molested by their own father, and then they went to a scholar, and they told them to be patient, and that being good to their father will take them to Jannah.

One thing I've also noticed is that people will weaponize certain hadiths, or ayahs of the Quran to justify the evil of some people. Stuff like this is just sickening.

All over the Quran Allah talks about how merciful and just He is. How anyone thinks He would send someone to hell forever just because they don't want contact with a family member who committed an unspeakable act of evil or abuse against them is beyond me.

Admittedly this kind of stuff gave me a bit of an eman crisis for a long time. It made me doubt as to whether Islam was here to make our lives easier, and how merciful Allah truly is.

But it's time we stop justifying abusers and call them out for the monsters they are. Scaring and intimidating people into being around monsters is not Islam. And to anyone who has tried to justify these abusers, you are just as guilty as them, and Allah will deal with you accordingly.

Business leaders spoke to senior Israeli officials and New York mayor during Columbia encampment, according to Washington Post

American business leaders and billionaires set up a Whatsapp group to shape public opinion on Israel's war in Gaza and urged New York City's mayor to use police to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University.

The contents of the Whatsapp group were reported by the Washington Post on Thursday.

The group was set up on 12 October, days after Hamas's surprise attack on southern Israel, to "change the narrative" on Israel, including by conveying "the atrocities committed by Hamas... to all Americans".

Among the business leaders in the group were the CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, Dell CEO and founder Michael Dell, and Joshua Kushner, a financier and brother to Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The contents of the chat were supplied to the Washington Post by unnamed people with direct access to it.

Last month, members of the chat, including billionaire Len Blavatnik, held a Zoom call with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, at a time when a pro-Palestinian encampment was taking place at Columbia University in the city.

During the call, attendees spoke about making political donations to Adams, and about how the business leaders could urge Columbia's president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police on campus.

Some members of the chat offered to pay for private investigators to help police during the protests.

According to the Washington Post, a member of the group wrote on the chat that such an offer had been accepted by Adams. New York's police denied using private investigators to manage the protests.

On 1 May, dozens of students were arrested as New York police officers wearing riot gear entered the main campus and broke up the encampment.

Police used an armoured vehicle with a bridging mechanism to gain entry to Hamilton Hall building, which students had occupied and renamed Hind's Hall - after a five-year-old Palestinian girl who was trapped in a car in Gaza and was later found killed along with several of her relatives and two paramedics who tried to save her after they appear to have come under fire from Israeli tanks.

Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy said police entered Columbia University in response to "specific written requests" from the university.

“Any suggestion that other considerations were involved in the decision-making process is completely false,” he said.

“The insinuation that Jewish donors secretly plotted to influence government operations is an all too familiar antisemitic trope that the Washington Post should be ashamed to ask about, let alone normalise in print.”

'Win the war of public opinion' The Whatsapp group had over 100 members, and was titled "Israel Current Events".

It was set up by real estate tycoon Barry Sternlicht, who was not directly a member of the chat but participated through a staffer.

The staffer said in October that the group's mission was to help "win the war" of public opinion in the US, while Israel worked to "win the physical war".

Israel's war on Gaza has killed over 35,000 Palestinians, most of whom are women and children, and displaced the vast majority of people in the besieged enclave.

More than a dozen of the Whatsapp group's members were on Forbes's annual billionaire list, according to the Washington Post.

Earlier during the war, the group's members attended private meetings with former Israeli prime minister and now opposition figure Naftali Bennett, war cabinet member Benny Gantz, and Michael Herzog, Israel's ambassador to the US.

The group's members also worked with the Israeli government to screen an Israeli military-compiled film displaying Hamas's 7 October attack, which left around 1,200 Israelis killed.

In November, Sternlicht reportedly launched a $50m media campaign against Hamas, with the help of media and business magnates.

The chat was shut down this month by Sternlicht's staffer, who said the group's aims were moving beyond its initial objectives.

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Hi, I am a non-Muslim, white British woman. I would like to begin wearing a head covering/hijab out in public. I generally keep my skin covered in public, with the exception of hair and neck. I like to do this as I feel I live in a world where everyone is encouraged to show as much skin as possible, but I prefer a much more modest approach and I enjoy my individualism. I like to choose where and to whom I show my skin, with my preference being for my husband and family.

I have very long, thick hair with big curls and waves that I always wear tied back out of the way. I would like to discourage people from touching it without permission and paying me compliments about my hair. I know it may seem like I should be happy that people think my hair is beautiful, but mostly it makes me feel disheartened and bored because it's not like I put in any skill or effort to make it that way, and I prefer to be complimented on something I worked hard on to build skill in. I don't know if this makes sense. Maybe it's rude of me and I should be thankful, I don't know.

So, I would like to start wearing a hijab or hair covering. I would hate for it to be seen as cultural/religious appropriation, and I don't want to upset anyone. I very much admire and respect the Muslim religion and its followers. Please give me your honesty and advice 🧕❤️

What's worse is that I am an ex-addict to p*|nography, I know the way out of this is marriage but I am still in my senior year of college, and I can't marry now since marriage for a man requires that he is independent financially while I still am dependent on my parents. What to do?

My father is a cancer paitent. Recently he is feeling well.but he startes his bad mouthing, verbral abuse, toxic character again. He called me thief qhen I was in college, I wanted to get my formula sheet and there was money beside it and saying I wanted to steal because my college teacher said, " in this age they tend to steal money and take their gf out "But I don't have any haram relationship. When I was in class 7 we had physical fight. I had to uplift him by throat and he punched kicked me. Nowtelll me can I make dua for his death quick. Please reply

i already told her like a month ago and we have the intention of marriage and we're doing everything possible to make it halal her older brother and her mom know and my siblings and my mom know but just asking is it ok if I tell her I love her?