Alsalam alykum everybody. Everytime I make wudu I start differently , so let’s just say the last time I made wudu I stared with washing my hands and this time I started wudu with rinsing my mouth, do you know what I mean? Will my wudu and pray be valid or do I have to make wudu in order and the same everytime? What is the right way to make wudu for women? Thanks❤️

I assume most Muslim parents fearing Zina completely shutdown any discussions or curiosities their kids might rise about it so intimacy was viewed as this unacceptable thing assuming that "they'll learn when they're married "

But how does someone "knows" about it if both parties of the marriage most likely had 0 knowledge what are they doing or what is considered a healthy relationship from a toxic one

So is this really something no one should talk about until marriage?

Assalamualaikum guys! Today was a family gathering today and my cousins were having a question on inappropriate and vulgar topics. I distanced myself away for a bit but then came back to give them advice according to Islam but by one of my female cousins was accused of being a second rate Mulla and giving dawah even though I myself am not a good Muslim even though my intentions were genuine. I tried my best to not sugarcoat what I was saying which might have lead to this response. Later down the cousins accused me of being a boring person now. Obviously you have to be kind and compassionate towards your cousins but these people won't bring me towards my deen but instead against it. Do I have to force myself to talk to them or can I distance myself but still be kind to them? To give some context I've known them for 7 years and grew up with them for a good portion of my life. They still think of me as the person I was in the past even though I completely changed these past few months Alhamdullilah. I would greatly appreciate your advice. Jazakhalla!

Salaam Alaykum.

I just completed my umrah trip and spent some time in Medina and Jeddah. The trip to the holy sites was great, but I’m absolutely astonished by the arrogance and ignorance of the Saudi nationals/workers in many areas. I experienced more side eye rudeness and witnessed more racism in my time in Saudi than all my life here in the states.

It was even worse how they treated poor SEA travelers Subhanallah. What is the reason for this arrogance tone and blatant racism? I’m Afghan and my wife is Bosnian, so many people didn’t really know how to interact with us, but it’s clear they treated us better than the poor Pakistanis or Asian travelers.

All I see on this subreddit is Jeddah being like some type of modern city or airport but the reality is it’s all faux. I witnessed more blatant racism and classism in Saudi than all my life in the states lmfao.

I’m not sure if it’s due to the lack of historical and cultural richness of Saudi’s who just now came to money and can’t act right, or there is some type of inherent racism? I’ve never encountered this type of behavior from more historically rich cultures Arab from nations like Iraq, Syria, etc. Could it be due to classism developed by poor Arabs suddenly coming into an influx of wealth (~50 years)?

I’m not some type of Saudi hater, I follow the scholars from there, and was excited to be going to the land of tawheed to immediately encountering airport staff who wouldn’t even give me a response to my Salaam. Also what is up with the no beard only mustache having population of your men? Medina was blessed to have many people of the sunnah but the other cities were severely lacking in manhood.

TL/DR - Astonished by the lack of Arab Akhlaq and class. The arrogance I encountered was unbelievable and has made me rethink a lot about the country considering in the past I would defend it (since I followed the scholars there) and assumed people were racist or jealous. But the reality is, online perception is correct about Jeddah airport and Saudi Nationals. If it wasn’t for me being Afghan and looking unique and my white wife, I’m afraid I’d have been targeted with even more rudeness.

Hazrat Jundub bin Abdullah bin Sufyan (raa) relates that the Holy Prophet (saw) said:

"A person who does some good work in order to boast, Allah the Most High will expose his faults and a person whose motive in doing some good deed is to show it, Allah the Most High will treat him as a hypocrite."

(Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, Riyadh us saleheen number 1619)

Asalamu’Alaikum brothers and sisters, I have always been someone that overthinks and that gets a lot thought which most I cannot control. I have started praying around June because I felt as I’m straying a lot from my believes, and that I’m falling into the same horrible sin over and over again, it went good for the first months as I have been getting closer and closer to god, and lowering the amount of times I commit that bad sin. Until recently when problems in life started to crumble, and depression and bad feelings started to appear that I started to go back to that sin for pleasure, I notice that I started doing it a lot again, and as bad as before I decided to start praying, I am still trying to keep my Salah, but I feel it feels so contradictory that on the same day I’m praying and later that night I return to that sin for pleasure. I feel guilty, and I feel really lost, I have been praying God to ease my struggles, and I feel like prayers aren’t being accepted, I feel that I’m a bad Muslim and due to returning to that sin several times after repenting that god is angry toward me. I feel anxiety and tightness in the chest thinking about it. What pushed me truly to write this and seek help is that I feel that during my prayers recently I get horrible thoughts questioning my very own deen! I keep telling myself this thoughts are only the devil but I’m afraid that it’s mine, or that it’s doing something to me or that god is angry toward me and is leaving me.

Please help me.

Ibn al-Qayyim said, “Duʿāʾ is one of the most beneficial remedies. It is the enemy of calamity; it repels it, cures it, prevents its occurrence, and alleviates it or reduces it if it befalls [one]. It is the weapon of the believer.”

[Ibn al-Qayyim, al-Dā’ wa-al-dawā’ (Mecca: Dār ʿĀlam al-Fawāʾid, 1429 AH), 11]

I can’t wait for the day of judgement to come, I know it will be a very terrifying day, but the people who wronged me in this life, I would like to get my revenge on them and see Allah punish them.

I also find judgement day to be interesting and I want to see how it would be like, even though it would be very terrifying.

Assalamualaykum Wa Rahmatullah.

I am writing here because i have no one to talk to about this nor i can, around me

Recently since the past 6 months I fell into the sin of listening to music and songs. And since then i have been on and off from music and listened and binged for 9 to 16 days a month. And it's this month i began to accept what i was doing and threw off the guilt that was killing me inside. Now i want to leave this sin but i can't. When i leave it off, i just crave it and end up doing it without any remorse while listening thinking it is my last time i am listening to this and i would surely leave. I am constantly trying to prove myself strong by doing it all myself. i missed my prayers due to this, left quran, and everything is not according to how i envisioned my life to be.

i know i only can leave this only if i begin hating the artists and not apreciating anything they do even the goood things but i see myself as unfair to people as this develops into my character slowly, i have experienced that before and i don't want myself go back to myself being hateful around people that were taking me away from Allah slowly. though it is all me that have gone distant from Allah....

I literally cannot think of anything as i have my exams 2 months exactly after. The music issue has been up bundled with my ADHD which makes me procrastinate even more and listen more.... I feel like i am going throigh a mental crisis along with my inability to leave off sins....

My brother took his life a few months ago and ever since I've not found peace in my heart. I feel so much conflict and distrust. I keep blaming myself, my father, my other brother....I don't know what to think or who to trust.

Most of all, I don't know why Allah allowed this. I don't know why Allah put my brother through impossible tests in his life. I don't want to go into detail on here, but he's not known a single moment of peace in his entire life. There was never a good outcome to his life. There was never a solution. There was just pain and suffering of every dimension.

Why? Why did he have to go through these trials if it didn't even bring him closer to Islam? What was the point?

I'm trying my best to trust Allah but I don't know why I'm doing that anymore. I know Allah knows best. I truly think Allah ended his suffering. That much I know. But why did he have to suffer in the first place?

Please don't judge me for these thoughts. I believe in Allah, and Islam has saved my life many times. So please know I'm coming from a place of desperation. All I used to care about was my relationship to Allah, and I'm feeling like I lost that as soon as my brother died. I want to come back but I feel so hurt. All I ever prayed for was my brother's well being...

There are people in your life you are taught to care for through thick and thin almost blindly. Many of the decisions in my life thus far were made with this individuals happiness in mind. I wish I could prove that my interests are the last of my priorities. We went from experiencing happiness in a sad world to experiencing sadness in a happy world if that makes sense. I literally try to offer this person the world but none of it makes a difference. It’s not they refuse to see any of it through but they mentally can’t. EVERY conversation we have always starts well but ends on a sour note. I hate seeing them like this. Today we had one of those conversations. The feeling that nothing you say or do can change a thing hurts.

I have a friend who likes to where a niqab in a video game and he's a man and hes Muslim, is this ok to do or would it be considered imitating women (please give sources). He doesn't take it seriously because he says its a game

Assalamualaikum brothers and sisters! This post is just a little rant or vent or maybe a physiological thing but it is lately bothering me alot. So when I was 6 years old I dreamt alot which alot of young children do. As years went on 7.. 8... 9 years old my dreaming frequency continued. Now I am almost 20 years old and the thing is... I remember most of my dreams and sometimes I confuse my past with my dreams. I forget which one is a real dream and which one was the real past life memory. In 2020 or maybe in 2019 I started dreaming about a vivid dreams and I saw a school which was not in a pretty area and when I saw it I was like what kinda school is that (in the dream) but fast forwarding to 2023 ta-da I saw that exact same school in another city I moved to. It was exactly the same one and I got goosebumps because I remembered that even the area looked same. In 2022 maybe I dreamt about Holy kaba and saw my mother there and in 2024 my mother went for umrah for the first time. In 2020 I saw our Prophet Muhammad ( S.A.W) and I Alhumdulliah survived COVID-19 that year as well. In 2024 these dreams coming true increased... Multiple times... My friend got the same number I saw in dream(estimated) and I saw my numbers not changing. There are many other incidents and dreams I remember so much vividly that I think I just saw them yesterday... Even if they were dreamt years ago. Should I see a physiologist? I am afraid of my dreams now... I am afraid something might come true. (I recently dreamt that my aunt took everything from our house leaving it barren and gues what today... My mom told me that your dream is about to cOme true) I am kinda scared.

Is it Halal for me to create a ring with the shape of an animal head as the stone (NO FACIAL FEATURES OR LIFE FEATURES) Or is this haram?

Salam a couple of hours ago me my mom and my younger sister 19f were called by paramedics and told that my younger sister 14f was found unconscious due to alcohol consumption. My mom called me she was crying and screaming as if she died which didn’t help and it honestly caused me irritation and stress but heck. Anyways they brought her in an ambulance I was home alone at that moment soo the ambulance came and she couldn’t walk on her own soo they helped her to her room and told me to let her sleep and she’d be fine tomorrow. When they left I had to quickly question her now I am her older brother and I have a very good relationship with my siblings she doesn’t lie to me when I ask as she previously told me that she vaped when I questioned her and I said I won’t tell mom but stop doing it and she did.

Now long story short I can’t tell if she’s lying to me or not my sister and my mom are just unfortunately not equipped with the brain to deal with such a situation soo I have to deal with it on my own and I told them to just give her space and let her sleep.

She’ll be awake tomorrow and my mom is gonna be annoying ab it but Allah alam. Anyways according to her she left her friend she was on a bus and 4 girls who seems around 5 years older than her came in took her out the bus got told why she talked smack to her little sister they took her on an empty park gave her death threats and forced her to chug vodka and then she was found by a random lady who called the ambulance.

Now when I found this out my anger was soo severe that I didn’t know what to do either way I am about to sleep right now and I’ll be going to the police station tomorrow to ask if they could help me find the idiots because for some reason taking justice into your own hands is illegal but at the same time what if she’s lying because I asked in different sub and I mentioned that we are Muslims but they all said she was lying even and that it was normal and that heck even Muhammad drank alcohol etc as expected of non Muslims soo I just wanted to ask here and get some advice

So, I’ve been looking for scary Jinn stories to read here, but I haven't had much luck. I’m not even sure what subreddits to check, so if anyone has recommendations or stories of their own, please share! For now, though, I’ll tell you about something that happened to my friend Huda that still makes me scratch my head. It’s something I think about pretty often, and I honestly don’t know what to make of it. I changed everyone's name but other than that the story is accurate.

My friend Huda has an aunt, Bibi Jaan, who was in her late 70s when this happened. Bibi Jaan was a frail, elderly woman who lived with her son and daughter-in-law in the same small town as Huda’s family. She didn’t know how to drive or speak/read English and often needed help with basic things. There were rumors in Huda’s family that Bibi Jaan had some kind of "experience" with Jinns when she was younger. She would have these random, drastic personality changes under stress, like when her husband passed away. At his funeral, multiple people witnessed her having what can only be described as a possession-like episode. She was chanting loudly, screaming at the “Jinns” to take her and bring her husband back, making all sorts of wild claims. The scariest part was how her voice changed during it, and she began singing strange, unrecognizable songs. At first, I thought it might have been some kind of mental breakdown brought on by the grief of losing her husband and raising a young child alone. But it’s hard to dismiss, especially since so many people who were there described it as "the strangest thing they’d ever seen". I don’t have a solid explanation for it, and I don’t know what to think. Maybe it was just the trauma and stress. Years later, I heard that Bibi Jaan went to Umrah and had a Ruqya done, which supposedly cleared her of any Jinns. But the story I want to share is much more recent.

A few months ago, around 5 AM, Huda’s cousin Laila and her family were woken up by loud banging on their door. It wasn’t normal knocking—it was someone repeatedly banging at the door, hard enough to wake up everyone in the house. Laila’s dad went to the door and looked through the peephole. To his shock, it was Bibi Jaan standing there. He opened the door and called his wife and Laila down to see what was going on. Everyone was confused and a little worried. Laila’s mom told Bibi Jaan to come in and sit down, asking her, "Is everything okay? How did you get here? Where’s your son?" But Bibi Jaan didn’t answer. She just stared at the room and at the people sitting around her, silent. After about 10–15 minutes, Laila’s mom went into the kitchen to get Bibi Jaan water and something to eat and Laila’s dad was in the bathroom getting ready for Fajr since it was almost time to pray.

While they were gone, Bibi Jaan suddenly looked at Laila and said, "I can’t stay here any longer. I have to go now." She got up and walked out the door. Laila followed her mom, calling after her, but by the time they got outside, there was no sign of Bibi Jaan. Her dad rushed outside and searched the street up and down, calling her name, but the old woman was nowhere to be found.

They were baffled. There was no way she could have just disappeared that fast. Bibi Jaan was old and frail—there was no way she could have run or hidden so quickly. Her dad went back inside and called Bibi Jaan’s son, Ali, and started yelling at him. "What kind of son are you?" he said. "Your mother somehow managed to get 45 minutes away from you, and you’re not even looking for her?". Laila's dad went on to explain what happened and how she disappeared. Ali was just as confused on his end and said "I have no idea what you’re talking about or who you saw. My mother’s right here in her bed asleep. I'm looking at her and she’s fine."

At this point, everyone was completely lost. The next morning, Laila’s mom called Bibi Jaan to ask if she remembered anything or if someone had dropped her off, but Bibi Jaan insisted she didn’t know what they were talking about. She’d been home all day and had no idea how she ended up at Laila’s house.

Laila’s family lives across from a small local Arab store, which has cameras monitoring the street. Her dad went over to ask if they could check the footage from that night, thinking maybe it could shed some light on what happened. The store owner showed him the recording, but there was nothing on it. Absolutely no sign of anyone walking up to the house.

The most bizarre part is that this wasn’t just one person experiencing it—it was three grown adults who all saw and heard the same thing. If it had just been one person, maybe they could’ve written it off as a bad dream or something imagined, but there were multiple witnesses.

I still don’t have an explanation for what happened. Neither does anyone else who heard this story. The idea that there could be Jinns out there imitating and pretending to be people is creepy as hell. What do you think? Could it have been a Jinn? Or is there another explanation we’re all missing? Keep in mind Laila and Hudas's family live 45 minutes away from each other and there is no way this woman could have been at both places in that small amount of time.

Do you think such names carry a stigma?

Assalamu Aleikum, Brothers and Sisters.

Living in a very isolated place with little to no fellow Muslims to interact with, except while volunteering, I had to get all the knowledge I needed about Shariah and good manners from the internet and from social networks. From there I learned about everything on how to properly behave like a good Muslim, and all the rules and prohibitions, including the ones on music. Fair enough, I told myself, and stopped listening to it.

However I recently had the chance to interact with a Brother at work, he is from Senegal and is a strict believer. When we were driving together he put on a song on the radio and I called him out (respectfully and peacefully) on it. He was confused, and told me he had no idea of what I was talking about. When I told him that music was haram he claimed to have never heard nor read such thing in his life, and I thought that maybe the Imams he followed in Senegal never bothered to remind this in their speeches.

Eventually when we came back to his home, he took the Al-Muwatta, which he follows very strictly, and looked for any ruling about music, but didn't find anything. I was suspicious that he was lying, because I've read on the internet that the Maliki madhab, as any other madhab, considered music to be haram, and the Maliki doctrine is well codified in the Muwatta. I asked him to borrow the book and look into it myself.

He also told me that there are hadiths that tell that what is permitted and what is not is already contained in the Qur'an. So, he said, he found no use in banning something that wasn't already banned in the Qur'an. He said that if something like music was really haram Allah SWT would have put it in the Qur'an, as He did for everything else that's considered haram.

I now concluded the throughout reading of the Al-Muwatta. And to my great shock, it doesn't actually mention music anywhere. I plan to visit an Imam on this matter next week when I go to the city to ask him directly about this. But in the meantime Id like to hear an answer from you, since it seems that most people here are educated about the Al-Muwatta.

Did my friend lie? Did he give me a fabricated copy of Al-Muwatta?

I am Shia and have always wondered this.

Teach Through Stories

• Share stories of the Prophets, Sahaba, and righteous Muslims to inspire them with role models from Islamic history. Tailor the stories to their age for better understanding.

MY FIRST POST:

(BACKGROUND: I come from a broken family/home. I've been raised in a abusive home my entire life, with an verbally and emotionally abusive mother, and a alcoholic drug addicted father. I have a bad relationship with both parents, especially my mother. Every day there is conflict, and abuse.)

I am 21f, and my entire life is falling apart, my mother is abusing me to the point where I have to leave my home, and I have no way of doing so.

Update: I have been in contact with local places near me for studio to rent. I live in a small town, so rent is fair. Alhamdulilah. I feel very torn and conflicted on moving out, as I have been very sheltered all my life and do not know how to go about it. I don't know if I should continue to live here or not, or just rent a place,

My mother is going to rent the room that is right next to mine, which is bad as I live in a single family home, and this bedroom is literally connected to my room. So now my Privacy will be non existent. I will also have to share a bathroom with this stranger as well, as the bathroom is connected to my bedroom as well.

Hello I would love to talk about someone my recurrent thoughts on ocd. You can send me dm for talking.

I'll let some info here too. I struggle with this constantly in which I imagine that I go to brazil run and steal someones phone (due to my ocd and not stealer behaviour) and they follow and kill me with machete. And then I think about going to Mexico and putting sole money in my pockets which resulted to be from gang members and they end up beating or killing me.

If you are a muslim with ocd what do you usually think of? You can vent here. And how did you cure yourself?

Soo i really wanna pray istikhara to see if this person is the one but the thing is im on my period so i cant pray and i dont know the person's name and they wont tell me

So would my istikhara dua still get accepted?

Anyone here from pakistan (Rawalpindi) please dm me im looking to make good friends

So a while back my friends were texting about me and at the time I just let it slide but overtime I found out it was very often to the point where if I uploaded a Snapchat story etc they’d tell each other to go and look at it and talk about it etc. like texting about my every move behind my back. I would never do that to any of my mates, and sure it happened a few years ago but at the time I let it slide cuz I had a lot going on and was thinking the best of people but lately it’s really been bothering me and I confronted one of them about them talking about certain things about me and they she denied it saying no one would say that not her not the other girls but I have receipts like I’m for a fact it was all said. Lately I’ve had the gut feeling to just block them out of the blue and move on. Am I wrong for this. Ik per Islam we should forgive and I think I have forgiven them but knowing all that still hurts that they’d treat a mate like that. We’re all females mid 20’s

Assalamu Alaikum! My name is Usama Bin Waheed, and I’ve been an online Quran teacher for several years now. Teaching the Quran has been more than just a job for me—it’s a mission to connect hearts with Allah’s message. My journey started with a single student, and little did I know, that very first session would become a story I’d cherish forever.

A Special Beginning When I first started, I eagerly waited for my first student. Days felt like weeks, and when I finally got the message, I couldn’t contain my excitement. The session was scheduled for 6 PM, and I was counting down the minutes.

When my student joined the call, his mother shared something that left me both awed and apprehensive. She told me her son was born with congenital deafness. At age six, after a successful surgery, he could hear for the first time. Now at seven, she was determined to give him Quranic education, but every teacher she approached turned her away.

“They didn’t have the patience to teach him,” she explained, her voice filled with hope. I felt a deep responsibility in that moment.

A Journey of Perseverance and Patience From the very first session, I knew this wouldn’t be easy. He struggled to focus on my voice, so I adapted. I used visual aids, moving my lips deliberately on camera, and even wrote notes in English with different colors to highlight tajweed rules. For instance, I’d use one color for bold sounds and another for light ones.

I celebrated every little milestone—even his mistakes—because they meant he was trying. Slowly but surely, he began to grasp the basics. What started as teaching the Arabic alphabet turned into word-by-word Quranic learning.

Days turned into months, and his progress amazed me. With consistent effort and Allah’s help, yesterday, he completed his Quran recitation.

The Unbelievable Moment When I shared this achievement with his mother, her reaction was unforgettable: “UNBELIEVABLE. No, you’re kidding!” she exclaimed.

I assured her it was true and praised her son’s intelligence and dedication. When she heard his recitation, tears filled her eyes. She was astonished by his fluency and the beautiful sound of his voice. “This is nothing short of a miracle,” she said, repeatedly thanking me and making heartfelt duas.

A Message From My Heart to Yours This experience taught me so much about resilience, patience, and the power of Allah’s guidance. I share this story to remind my Muslim brothers and sisters: this life is temporary, but the Quran is eternal. It’s our compass, our light, and our ultimate source of guidance.

If you’ve ever hesitated to learn the Quran, don’t wait. It’s never too late to take that step closer to Allah. Trust in Him, and you’ll find the way.

I’m playing a game on the Roblox platform where players can purchase boosts with Robux (real money) to increase their chances of receiving rewards or progressing faster. While I personally avoid spending real money on the game, I’m concerned about the ethical implications of the system itself. The rewards, such as pets, are based on random chances. Players earn in-game currency by breaking coins with their pets to open eggs, which contain multiple pets, and the better the pet, the smaller the chance of getting it. While it’s possible to buy exclusive eggs with Robux, these eggs guarantee a exclusive pet, but the pet's value can either be less than or much greater than what you paid for it. I avoid this feature as much as possible due to these uncertainties.

Moreover, players can buy gems with Robux, and these gems are used as the main currency for trading and selling pets or items. This creates a system where Robux, or real money, indirectly plays a central role in the game’s economy, especially in the buying, selling, and trading of valuable items.

However, the game also offers free methods to improve one’s chances, allowing players to influence their "luck" without spending money, which adds a layer of complexity to the situation, by using potions to add etc +300% luck. You can earn gems without spending robux by breaking or earning through other free-to-play means.

I’m wondering if this setup could be considered haram in Islam, as it relies on chance and offers players the opportunity to spend real money for a potential advantage. Does this system resemble gambling in any way, given the randomness of rewards and the possibility of purchasing boosts or eggs? Is it permissible to participate in such a game without spending money? Additionally, if I were to trade in-game items, such as pets, with other players who have used real money to buy boosts, eggs, or gems, does that make my actions problematic in any way, or for pets that have been obtained from the exclusive eggs, does that make my actions problematic in any way?

I’m seeking a better understanding of whether this type of game structure aligns with Islamic principles, and if trading within this environment is allowed, especially considering that luck can be influenced both through paid boosts and free opportunities in the game.

Am I wrong to distance myself from my father?

My father has always been angry /physically abusive. Most of his anger was not directed at me instead it was mostly other family members, but I still saw very clearly how bad it was. My mother died when I was a teenager. I’ve graduated college and moved to another state to work. I always kept a loving relationship with my dad even if I was geographically far. Then last month I found out he got arrested for physically abusing his new wife. I never met or spoke to her. They were married 3 months before she called the police and he was arrested for domestic violence.

This completely has changed how I view my relationship with my father for some reason. My heart is broken and I’m so ashamed that the man who raised me continues to hurt all the women in his life. I can’t find it in my heart to speak to him right now. He denies everything and calls her crazy. But I grew up with him and I know how he gets when he’s angry. I pray to Allah swt to forgive him. I don’t know why this made me feel like this now, when I’ve seen him do terrible things to my sisters. Maybe it’s because I’m older and haven’t experienced this kind of treatment in so long.

Here is my question: As his daughter is it my Islamic duty to continue to keep a close relationship with him? I thought he only acted this way with me and my sisters, I’m terrified to know he could be like this with any woman. I’m ashamed.

How can I ever find a husband to treat me with respect when my own father treats women like this? I don’t want a violent man in my life. But is that not my choice if he’s my father? Islamically do I have to keep ties with him?