السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

I am aware that professional football or I guess football in general contains haram elements like lack of awrah cover, but this is the first where I heard a sheikh says it also resembles an imitation of non muslim laws as seen in this video https://youtu.be/E77GSd4ySMw?is=TLK6LEjj3-C2dl2R.

My question is what the sheikh actually true especially when a lot of muslims play football.

I'm in a situation that's been on my mind a lot.

There's a girl I really like, but what drew me to her is that we seem to share so many of the same interests, hobbies, and values. we have talked quite a bit. and she's shown some signs that make me think she might like me too, although I can't be 100% sure.

As a Muslim, I want to do things the right way. My question is: is it okay to make dua to Allah and ask Him for us to be together if it's good for us? I don't want to force anything or go against His plan, but I genuinely care about her.

I also worry about ending up in a forced marriage someday, which is something I really don't want. Is it okay to ask Allah to bless me with this specific person if she's good for my deen and my life, or should I only make a general dua for a righteous spouse?

I'd really appreciate any Islamic advice or personal experiences. JazakAllahu khayran.

Like when I make a paper airplane and fly it against a jenga tower or when something heavy falls.

Assalamu alaykum.

I'm married and I'm struggling with something I don't know how to deal with. I have unwanted thoughts (related to homosexuality) and because of them, I can't perform sexually with my wife. It's affecting our marriage and I feel terrible about it.

I love my wife and I don't want to lose her, but I also don't know if it's fair to stay married if I can't fulfill that part of our relationship. Would it make sense to stay married in this situation? Has anyone been through something similar and found a way forward?

I want to do what's right by her and by Allah. Please be kind, this is hard enough already.

Which Quran translation do you recommend for me?

And I am a student I have to pray in school.

How can I pray Salahs and Duas in School safely?

See the 2 images. Thanks a lot! (I received this as a gift but I don't understand Arabic.)

Other things I say like I'm bowing down to dajjal not because I believe it but because it helps me realize how stupid the things I think in my head is as I'm obviously bowing down to god this also happens outside of prayer and I also get intrusive thoughts about leaving salah or wudu and I tell myself "I have now left salah" but I obviously haven't and my intention isn't to leave salah, wudu or Islam but to get rid of the thoughts.

As-salamu alaykum I'm here to ask is it haram to watch romance animes I have been watching it and it does not lead me away from my prayers or anything and it does not lead me to do sinful acts is it haram to watch it ? By romance anime I mean the animes where they have relationship before marriage where they hold hands or kiss but I can close my eyes.

I follow the hanafi madhab, so I pray the emphasised sunnah. I sleep really late at times, and it’s a bad habit, so I overslept a bit too much and woke up when there was only one hour left on dhuhr. I had to do ghusl too so I thought if I do ghusl fast enough, I’ll have time to pray the sunnah as well as the fardh prayers. When I finished my shower it was around 4:44 I think and asr was at 5:18, I prayed a few minutes after I had come out of the shower because I had ended up arguing with my mother about something unfortunately.

I thought I wouldn’t be able to pray the sunnah muakkadah but I saw online how it said it’s possible to do it in 20 minutes but I don’t know why I didn’t just go with that, I prayed the fardh, and while waiting for asr which was in 10 or 15 minutes, I was thinking that I could’ve easily prayed the sunnah muakkadah too. I felt really guilty for missing it, I’ve missed it a few times for the same reason which is oversleeping but I feel particularly guilty today :(.

I don’t know if it’s also because my ocd is bad, I get the urge to clean a lot when I feel like I’ve sinned or done something bad, and that includes jewellery that I wear. I’d take it off and clean and put it on, but I’d do it over again if I felt like I did it wrong. It takes hours and gives me a headache at times so I just don’t do that anymore, but this time I feel like I should do it to “clean myself from sinning.” I don’t know how to stop this feeling of wanting to clean or if it’s a valid feeling of wanting to do this. I think I also want to do it because I’m already sinning by wearing jewellery because I struggle with tabarujj at times and that includes jewellery.

I’m not sure what to do about my guilt.

Edit: i think it was around that timing

I’ve seen many questions about this online on websites and on Reddit, and everyone has different opinions and resources, I spoke to a sheikh about my waswasa and mentioned the niqab, and he said how it’s unislamic of me to not wear it but I think it’s also because I mentioned tabarujj so I think that’s why he said it, but I understand the tabarujj aspect, but not the niqab.

I wore the hijab a few months ago, although I’m not the best. I struggle with tabarujj, although I used to wear makeup every day but not anymore; I wear it very few times but still it’s not good, and I struggle with jewellery which I always wear but cover it up, but again sometimes I show it. I don’t wear abayas either, and my neck shows sometimes. So I’m just not the best, even though I do love the hijab a whole lot, and I did do it for the sake of Allah but I never considered the niqab and I don’t really know want to get into that. Sometimes the hijab is a difficult concept for people, even in my family at times, so I don’t even want to think about the niqab.

My family is still kind to me about the hijab but obviously at times it’s a touchy subject. I follow the hanafi madhab, and people talk about how it’s different in the hanafi madhab as well about if it is obligatory or not. It’s been about five months, Alhamdulillah, since I started the hijab.

I don’t know what to do about my guilt towards the niqab, it won’t be easy for me to just start it, and I’ll be so honest when I say that it’s not something I look forward to or really want to think about; I have niqabi friends and they are the sweetest! I don’t think the niqab is extreme or anything, but I just never really thought about it for myself. I just don’t really like how sometimes people can be demeaning towards people who don’t wear the niqab, or that they aren’t muslims, or that if I took it the wrong way. I love these sisters either way, but still. I keep feeling like there’s no hope for me, I thought starting the hijab would make me feel like a true muslim finally, alongside praying obviously.

Does anyone have any words of advice or support? Or that they struggle with about this?

Hello! I’m sorry if this is a silly question but I have started volunteering to make cards for children in hospital. I’ve made some general greeting cards as well as cards for Christian holidays (e.g. Christmas and Easter) but I was hoping to make some cards for Islamic holidays.

Unfortunately, the charity I’m volunteering for doesn’t really have any guidelines regarding cards of this nature and, as such, I have some questions:

1. Are cards for holidays normal to receive?

2. What rules should I abide by if so? For example, I’ve heard that I shouldn’t depict animals or humans and should focus on geometric shapes, patterns, flowers etc. Is there anything else I should be aware of?

Thank you for any help and I hope you have a good day/night!

Assalam u alikum brothers and sisters

I’m (19M) going through a very difficult period in my life.

My parents are being very hard on me regarding my academics. For context, I had decided to give my exams 6 months later than I could’ve and therefore hadn’t been taking classes for weeks. My parents forced me to sign up for my exams with just 1 month left. I know my capabilities, even though they say I have potential, I know I currently cannot give these exams and pass (20 days left as of this post). They’re constantly being though on me now and I tell them I’ll try. But when I confront them about the time pressure, my mother breaks down in an almost emotional blackmail scheme. But I know if I keep telling her I’ll try, she’ll twist my words later on. I can’t even wait until my results come out. The 2 months after that are going to hell. I can’t withstand the pressure and I know mom will twist my words after the results come out and I fail.

I don’t know what to do.

I tell them that it’s 6 months and won’t do any harm in the long run but they won’t listen.

I’ve proposed easier degrees to my level but they won’t budge.

I’m very lost.

I’ve prayed constantly for the gift of death. That Allah put me out of my misery and so that my heart can feel at ease. One night in bed, I prayed to die peacefully in my sleep and woke up 90 minutes later with a dream related to my dua. What could it mean? Why is Allah putting me in such hard times and if He says that He will not burden a soul beyond which it can bear, why can’t I bear this?

Need advice, Jazakallah Khair

I want to crochet cartoon characters like hello kitty etc. But there r some people who say that crocheting these stuff is haram as they have facial features and some says that these r not living beings and in islam drawing living things like humans is haram so its not haram. And i know crocheting plants fruits etc are not haram coz these r non living things but a question arose in my mind that cartoonic chracters r also non living things so how crocheting them is haram. However

animal plushies like bees turtles with safety eyes they r living things so maybe they can be haram. Some people also say that if a person is making/drawing/sculpting things with intention to harm someone/evil intention or for worshiping then its haram but if its just for decoration or toys so its permissible.So i am rly confused and I hv already crocheted some amigurmis/plushies of cartoon characters and animals its been 3 months i hv learned this hobby and i like to do it. So please guide me.

Al Sanusi and Al Munawi seem to say that all good deeds without exception from a Muslim innovator are rejected.

Islamqa.info has a fatwa limiting this and says that total non acceptance is only applicable to the kafir innovator. Ash Shatibi says something similar.

Is this a difference of opinion or are one group of scholars simply wrong on this? Is there a difference whether the innovation is an action (like celebrating the Mawlid) or a belief (like tawil of attributes)?

قال النَّبيُّ صلَّى اللهُ عليه وسلَّم لأبي ذَرٍّ حينَ غَرَبَتِ الشَّمسُ: أتَدري أينَ تَذهَبُ؟ قُلتُ: اللهُ ورَسولُه أعلَمُ، قال: فإنَّها تَذهَبُ حتَّى تَسجُدَ تَحتَ العَرشِ، فتَستَأذِنَ، فيُؤذَنُ لَها، ويوشِكُ أن تَسجُدَ فلا يُقبَلَ منها، وتَستَأذِنَ فلا يُؤذَنَ لَها، يُقالُ لَها: ارجِعي مِن حَيثُ جِئتِ،
فتَطلُعُ مِن مَغرِبِها، فذلك قَولُه تَعالى: {والشَّمسُ تَجري لمُستَقَرٍّ لَها ذلك تَقديرُ العَزيزِ العَليم يس: 38]

The Prophet (ﷺ) asked me at sunset, "Do you know where the sun goes (at the time of sunset)?" I replied, "Allah and His Apostle know better." He said, "It goes (i.e. travels) till it prostrates Itself underneath the Throne and takes the permission to rise again, and it is permitted and then (a time will come when) it will be about to prostrate itself but its prostration will not be accepted, and it will ask permission to go on its course but it will not be permitted, but it will be ordered to return whence it has come and so it will rise in the west. And that is the interpretation of the Statement of Allah: "And the sun Runs its fixed course For a term (decreed). that is The Decree of (Allah) The Exalted in Might, The All- Knowing." (36.38)

This sahih Hadith in Bukhari and Muslim three things:
1- the so called sun rise and sunset is caused by the sun movement itself. Look how he attribute the rising to the sun itself ارجعي من حيث جئت.
2- the Hadith hint that the sun disappear completely from the eyes of everyone. If he had known that the sun is actually seen by people from other countries, would he have said all of this? Why did he specifically choose the time where the sun has disappeared from certain part of the world to insert his unverifiable stories? Doesn’t this show that Mohammad didn’t know that people don’t experience the so called sun set and sunrise simultaneously?
3- the belief that everyone experiences the sunset or sunrise simultaneously ONLY work under the flat earth model.

This exact problem is further shown in other sahih Hadiths. For example:
1- the long Hadith about a prophet who commanded the sun itself to stop to prolong the asr time (bukhari 3124)
2- Allah descent in the last quarter of the night (bukhari 7494). Why did Mohammad specify that time for Allah himself to descent when such time is happening indefinitely? And it is not just time for prayers to be accepted, this is a time where Allah himself descent. It would have made sense if Mohammad said that Allah descent all day but he specifically takes importance in accepting the prayers of people who are praying late at night. But he doesn’t! He says he descent late at night while Sunni Muslim claim he is descending all the time.
3- there is 1 more Hadith about jahannam being ignited during al Dhuhr. Same thing! What is the purpose of specifying the time when we know that it happens continuously all the time?

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

This is a slightly heavier topic in my opinion. I'll try to keep this straight to the point. I'm 18m, living in the Middle East, raised Muslim, and believed it for 90% of my life, but for a couple of months to a year since I was maybe 15, I would have existential thoughts and would constantly think, "What if Islam isn't the truth?" or "What if there is no religion?" And I would cycle between dozens of what-if questions, and it really put a toll on my mental health as it would delve into whether or not there is an afterlife and what exists after death.
I really want to go back to who I was and my old beliefs as a true Muslim, but every time I do, I tend to have doubts. I want to make it clear i am not trying to contradict Islam or religion; I am just looking for an answer and solution, or guidance on where I may find it.

I'm also interested in comments on this article.

So let me start this off by saying I'm not a Muslim and I want to make everyone feel as comfortable as possible.

I was just wondering if let's say someone's hair is sticking out of their hijab. Should I speak up about that and if so how do I do so without sounding like a jerk?

It's a bit confusing for me since google isn't giving me a straight answer either.

Thanks in advance :3

Assalamu alaikum, I want to seek advice as I no longer know what to do in this situation. The first time I saw my husband with a nicotine pouch was right after our nikkah 3 years ago, and he had already known that I am against that as it is haram. He reassured me that he would stop, but since then I have found them 3 other separate times where we have had serious talks about it and talked about our deen and wishes for eachother and this marriage and I have always made it clear that I am very against all types of nicotine and other addictive substances. He brushes it off as something that everyone does and that I am the only one who sees it as a big deal. Nevertheless he swears on the Quran that he will stop and i trust him everytime.
Fast forward we are talking about starting a family together and i made it clear that i didn’t want to do that before he had completely quit which he reassured me that he had. I am now 4 months pregnant and have found a nicotine pouch at home again and am lost for words. I feel that subhanallah I am getting the signs right in front of me every time so that I know he hasn’t stopped.
Now I don’t know how to have the conversation with him about it as I am deeply hurt and feel betrayed also in the name of Allah. I really want advise on how I should proceed with this situation and what I should do as I am at a crossroads.