Progressive_Islam

By: u/Dizzy-Bee-5737

Whenever there's a post by a Muslim person that shows even a bit of empathy towards Igbtq people, I find comments like this all the time.

I don't understand why people are so hostile towards Igbtq people?

Even if they think it is a sin, aren't we all sinners in some ways?

Mocking, insulting, saying things like 'You can't be gay and Muslim'

'Read lot's people's story, they got destroyed cause they were gay' 'lot's wife got destroyed cause she was an ally' and what not...

and if someone says something against these comments people start calling them kafir. I'm tired of such people.

Why can't they just mind their own business and let other people be.

By: u/Tenatlas _2004

Anti-muslim sentiments seem to be on the rise in most of the western world for the US to Russia.

As a muslim from a muslim country looking from the outside, it seems threats against muslims are rising, and I pray that fellow western muslims are protected from it.

But it made me wonder if there was a non-muslim country where this wasn't the case?

Where is it the safest to be openly muslim?

By: u/Phagocyte_Nelson

We all have to work for a living. I'm guessing that my job is just as stressful as everybody else's job. And sometimes, the stress of work makes it hard for us to focus on our deen. The dunya is literally taking our time away us, keeps us away from our family and friends, and keeps us away from our prayer mats.

Gosh somedays I wish I could just stop working for a just a second to pray Zuhr or Asr; if not for my own sanity, then for the sake of Allah, the Worshipped One.

One of the lessons of the Prophet (saw) that gives me the most peace comes from the community of Medina. The Prophet taught his companions that to work was worship. At the time, many of the Muslims had just fled their homes in Mecca; many of them didn't even have a home in Mecca, they were homeless on the streets. They suffered persecution for their beliefs and way of life, and then Allah gave them relief by establishing their community in Medina, through the deeds of the Prophet.

One of the first things that the Prophet ordered his companions to do is to build the Kuba Mosque in Medina. By building a community center in the form of the masjid, the Sahaba had a shared space to eat, sleep, and worship. The Prophet himself helped in construction. Many of the Sahaba were shocked to see a man like the Prophet Muhammad (saw) do dirty hard-labor. The Prophet was humble (both in money and character), and he himself had to work many different trades throughout his life.

The Prophet taught us what is halal income and what is haram income. Halal income are jobs that benefit society, such as farming and construction work. Haram income are jobs that leech off of society, such as gambling and usury. Usury was especially frowned upon, and unfortunately we live an epoch where usury dominates our economy. We live in a world where corporations generate profits because they pay their employees less than the monetary value of their work. The Prophet taught that it is a sin to pay someone less than their work was valued.

Personally, I work for Amazon as a delivery driver. I know for a fact that my boss (Jeff Bezos) is one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and he is in that position because of employees like me. Some may say that it is hard to run a company as large as Amazon and so his wealth is justly earned. But the bottomline is that Bezos's financial income is haram. It is possible for a people to work hard for haram income, but it is still haram nonetheless. May God spare us from hellfire.

Since we are working for most of the hours of the day, we should be more mindful about how we can worship on the clock. Personally, I do dhikr while I'm driving around in my Amazon van. I also time my breaks so that I may pray Zuhr and Asr. On some days when the workload is too much and I can't take a break, I combine my prayers as prescribed by the Maliki school.

We have to be creative when it comes to incorporating worship into work. Imagine all the good deeds that are added to your record when you combine your remembrance of Allah with your time of the clock. This is surely how the Sahaba approached it, they would recite dhikr while plowing the fields; the adhan became their lunch break (mashallah).

Let's reflect on the role that our job plays in society; what good deeds to we manifest while we do our job. Are you a mechanic or a doctor? Then mashallah your job is a blessing onto others. Perhaps your job helps facilitate blessings in society. Do you work at or own a grocery store? Then mashallah you provide rizq and satisfy the needs of the community. If you work at a desk or remote, then you are still creating blessings through your computer. I personally dont mind that Jeff Bezos is my employer, because regardless i become a source of blessings for people waiting on their package. May Allah help me deliver these packages in a timely and disciplined manner.

By: u/Complete_Weird_434

My husband is Muslim and from a more-or-less traditional family. Not traditional enough to absolutely lose it over their only son marrying me - a Christian woman- but traditional enough to sulk for a whole year and grandma having to berate them. Fun times.

Over the years he has realised he does not align with all the same viewpoints his parents taught him growing up. He would consider himself more progressive but he’s not had the heart to reach out anywhere in person for fear of being deemed not religious enough.

So…here I am instead asking for everyone‘s fav recommendations! Would be great if they’re available digitally in English, German or Turkish as my husband is blind and physical books are quite the process (can be done. Just might take several hours to properly scan so he can then read it on his PC.) 😅

One says extremist.

One says un-Islamic.

By: u/Taffles57

Verses 4:11–12 explain Islamic inheritance laws:

“Allah commands you regarding your children: the share of the male will be twice that of the female. If you leave only two ˹or more˺ females, their share is two-thirds of the estate. But if there is only one female, her share will be one-half. Each parent is entitled to one-sixth if you leave offspring. But if you are childless and your parents are the only heirs, then your mother will receive one-third. But if you leave siblings, then your mother will receive one-sixth—after the fulfilment of bequests and debts. ˹Be fair to˺ your parents and children, as you do not ˹fully˺ know who is more beneficial to you. ˹This is˺ an obligation from Allah. Surely Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.

You will inherit half of what your wives leave if they are childless. But if they have children, then ˹your share is˺ one-fourth of the estate—after the fulfilment of bequests and debts. And your wives will inherit one-fourth of what you leave if you are childless. But if you have children, then your wives will receive one-eighth of your estate—after the fulfilment of bequests and debts. And if a man or a woman leaves neither parents nor children but only a brother or a sister ˹from their mother’s side˺, they will each inherit one-sixth, but if they are more than one, they ˹all˺ will share one-third of the estate—after the fulfilment of bequests and debts without harm ˹to the heirs˺. ˹This is˺ a commandment from Allah. And Allah is All-Knowing, Most Forbearing.”

My concern is the following:

In the case of a man dying, leaving two or more daughters, a mother, a father and a wife, the verses denote that the man’s estate is divided like this:

• 2/3 for the daughters

• 2/6 for the parents

• 1/8 for the wife

2/3 + 2/6 + 1/8 = 9/8; 112.5% of the man’s estate; impossible.

Some translations say “…your wives will receive one-eighth of what you leave…” which might mean one-eight after all other inheritance is paid. And one-eight of nothing is nothing, getting rid of the mathematical error. But I don’t know I don’t speak Arabic so I don’t know if that’s what it’s really saying, and why would the wives only get an eight of what little money is left? That doesn’t really seem fair.

And scholars have devised a system to proportionally lower the inheritance, given something like this happens.

Someone explain this please…

(edit: I could be wrong about the scholar thing, feel free to correct me, I just wanna learn)

u/LogicalAwareness9361

I’ve seen a lot of people say that dressing modestly (abaya and hijab) is actually a lot cooler during the summertime, but that’s just not true for my personal experience or friends that I know.

Wearing hijab during the summertime (and I’m only in Canada - can’t imagine a warmer climate) was SO unbearably hard I always felt like I was suffocating and about to pass out.

I had friends who refused to leave the house because of how uncomfortable it was.

At what point do we accept that Allah didn’t intend for intense hardship on women?

A common sentiment of encouragement from other Muslims was usually “well if you can’t handle this heat, how could you handle the hellfire?”

And I just can’t understand that. I do understand that this life is a test and we should struggle and strive for goodness but at what point does it stop being a struggle / striving and start just being torturous ?

By: u/ImpossibleContact218

So my mom, a pretty cultural/traditional Muslim, always forbid me from shaping/plucking my eyebrows because of the Hadith that the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) cursed those women who shaped/plucked their eyebrows.

But just now, she said she read a Daleel online that the Hadith was referencing those women who would pluck/shape their eyebrows to suggest that they were prostitutes.

Basically, plucked eyebrows were a sign of prostitution and the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was cursing prostitution.

So in that context, it wasn't about a woman plucking her brows = hellfire.

It was: don't emulate sex workers to attract immoral attention in a society where that meant danger, objectification, and exploitation.

Very different message.

And my mom finally agreed that plucking/shaping eyebrows is fine :D

And the fact this made it to the front pages of Reddit...

I don't know why these so called Muslims think it's halal and doing a favor to Allah by killing their daughters.

By: u/ImpossibleContact218

By: u/Samandarkaikareeb

It broke my heart this morning to read that Prof David Suzuki says we are too late to prevent climate change.

https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/

This precious, pale blue dot, hanging like a mote of dust in the vast blackness of space is the only home we have. Teeming with life. And we are busy burning it down to the ground.

The Finnish government has sent a letter to its citizens telling them to prepare for natural disasters like flood etc.

Prof Suzuki says that governments won't be able to cope with the scale of the natural disasters that are coming. Governments won't be able to get help to people on the scale needed. The Professor says that its local communities that will need to pool their resources to survive.

It's getting real.

Muslims ought to have been the vanguard of the environmental protection movement. Some have tried, and others are still trying.

The Saudis could have made Umrah and Hajj into opportunity to teach the Ummah about caring for the environment. I aporeciate accommodating millions of visitors a year is a gargantuan task. But Makkah was a designated a "Hima" a millenia and a half ago - a sanctuary where it was forbidden to kill a fly or to cut down a tree. The leadership could have sought to turn the pilgrimages into "soft" teaching and advocacy moments. Millions of people a year returning home to every corner of the globe with a new or refreshed call to action to take care of this precious blue ball of life called Earth.

But despite Prof Suzuki's statement, I think of the hadith that tells Muslims if we find ourselves wirh a palm tree seedling in our hand but Judgement Day comes upon us - we should plant it. It's a metaphor that works on multiple levels. And it's apt for the times we are in.

It's going to take each and every one of us doing our utmost to limit the damage. We have to be the vanguard in our families and communities.

If you love this world, and all it provides you with. Do it a favour today. Tell someone.

Tell someone how you noticed yourself taking a deep breath under a tree, how a beautiful landscape captivated you, at the gratitude you felt to have clean water to drink and food to eat.

I think curiousity follows on from gratitdue: we start to be curious about how we have what we have. Curiousity leads to exploration, which leads to discovery, all of which is a journey which leads to knowledge and growth.

We have so much scientific heritage as Muslims. I pray we can recover as an Ummah and get to work to save this planet, and ourselves.

By: u/maessof

Middle East Eye www.middleeasteye.net Mufti Menk, a Zionist rabbi and the politics of faith-washing in Dubai

He will post a little about Palestine when pressured.

He has never once named Israel.

He called Sudan a civil war.

And then whenever he's in trouble he posts videos of himself doing charity to wash he's reputation.

He does not encourage protests.

He does not encourage boycotts.

He does not encourage people to even post.

He's career is to be a moral leader, why is he not behaving like a moral leader

Why is he doing so little. Why can't he even name Israel What contract has he signed with the devil.

By: u/Suspicious-Draw-3750

Yesterday I was with friends and we talked about the past, especially how the people in school are developing. I then heard that someone made fun of a guy in my year back then because he didn’t know the shahada.

I was sad to hear something like this. I mean we don’t know his circumstances and such to judge it. Yes, he was a born Muslim but we don’t know his household.

I then said: I could make fun of the person mocking the other person. I know more than them but don’t. I think that we shouldn’t judge based on knowledge since the actions of a believer are what makes them a believer and not their knowledge. Only Allah knows who is getting punished and who isn’t and who is closer and who isn’t.

So in the end I want to say, don’t judge others due to their knowledge and try to refrain. Rather actions like their behavior are more of interest but even the we should be careful not to make assumptions

By: u/CobustulusA

What would he think of us who don’t fall in the category of traditional muslims?

Such as those who don’t wear the hijab, who shave, who listen/make music, etc.

Would he look favourably on this community, or not?

By: u/Brown_Leviathan

Ibn Battuta, the famous medieval Muslim traveller, narrated how he accidentally drank alcoholic beer with fellow Muslims during his travels, when he was in Turkey. This happened because the local people followed the Hanafi school of thought, which allowed grain-based alcohol, while Ibn Battuta's Maliki school forbade all alcoholic beverages. In his own words, "When I went out I made enquiry about it and they said 'It is nabidh [a fermented drink] which they make from dugi grain.' These people are Hanafis and nabidh is permissible according to their doctrine."

The Qur'an uses the word "Khamr" for prohibited alcoholic beverages. According to some early scholars like Abu Hanifa, "Khamr" literally means wine made of grapes or dates, and does not include not all other drinks. According to Abu Hanifa, alcoholic beverages made from honey, figs, wheat, maize or barley are permissible if consumed below the point of intoxication. Later Hanafi scholars eventually abrogated Abu Hanifa's ruling and adopted a general prohibition of all alcoholic beverages, most likely due to pressure from other schools of jurisprudence.

The early Kufan Hanafi jurist Ibrâhîm al-Nakha'î (d. 96/715-6) asserts that the public has misinterpreted the Prophet's statement that drinks "that intoxicate in large quantities are forbidden in small quantities" (i.e., the 'large/small' tradition)." Ibrahim explains that the Prophet meant to forbid intoxication rather than intoxicants.

The prominent Maliki jurist Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (d. 520/1126) states that "Khamr is that which intoxicates and overwhelms the intellect". There is a controversial and disputed narration, wherein the Prophet instructs Abu Musa to "drink but do not become Intoxicated". (Ibn Rushd al-Hafid, Bidaya, 2:914)

It is also well known that the famous Muslim philosopher and physician Ibn Sina (Avicenna) would often drink wine. He acknowledged the health benefits of drinking wine in moderation.

It is often claimed that Ottoman sultan-caliph Abdülhamid II would occasionally and privately savor a glass of cognac at his doctors’ orders.

A few years ago, a prominent Qatar-based Muslim scholar, Yousuf Al Qaradawi declared:

“An alcohol volume of up to 5/1000 or 0.5% in a drink has no significance in making it haram [prohibited]. It is a very small quantity, especially if it results from natural fermentation and is not manufactured."

Considering the totality of facts and arguments, I would say that the strict level of taboo and prohibition that today Islamic scholars have imposed upon the Muslims was not always the case historically.

Let me know what you guys think.

Please refer to:

1. 'Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World' by Rudi Matthee.
2. Haider, N. (2013). Contesting intoxication: Early juristic debates over the lawfulness of alcoholic beverages. Islamic L. & Soc'y, 20, 48.
3. 'The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer', by David Waines

By: u/No-Action3492

Recently I converted to Islam and started practicing. I have always been fascinated by different cultures and religions (especially Islam).

I converted because I found that Islam made far more sense than Christianity and also I did not like the way Islam was being portrayed and Muslims were being treated in the west.

Another reason I converted was to find a sense of community as I never had many friends growing up.

However as I started becoming more religious, I started becoming extremely depressed and anxious about the hellfire.

I’ve noticed that the vast majority of Muslims seem to take the Qu’ran and Hadith literally and very often harbour disgusting views (such as towards gay people, women, other sects of Islam and towards non Muslims), views which certainly aren’t compatible in a modern society and quite frankly it doesn’t make any sense to take holy texts literally such as miracles mentioned in them which couldn’t have happened scientifically and also nobody actually knows what happens when we die.

Something that really bothers me though is how many Muslims (not all) see non Muslims as evil people destined for hell even if they were good people and that people who don’t pray will go to hell which gives me a lot of anxiety even if that sounds irrational.

Also virtually everything fun and enjoyable in life (I.e: music, birthday celebrations, owning a pet dog) is viewed as haram by these Salafists (who unfortunately seem to be the mainstream from my experience).

So for now I’ve decided not to practice any religion although I don’t agree with ex Muslims either because they seem to be very bitter individuals and spread hate against Islam as a whole which is not my intention as I know Islam was originally meant to be a force for good even if it’s been warped by Salafists today.

I also think it’s better and more logical to view the Qu’ran as the inspired word of Allah rather than Allah’s literal word.

I might look into Sufism in the future as it seems to be much more calmer and peaceful than mainstream Islam.

By: u/ImaginaryGur2086

...everything bad that is talked about Islam is not in the Qur'an but in the Hadith.

I have never seen anyone trying to disprove or find something against Islam in the Qur'an.

By: u/ZenoMonch

By: u/TryingNoToBeOpressed

They are mentioned in the Quran, but are we supposed to believe that they literally exist?

Personally, I'm not sure...I find it difficult to accept that such a supernatural being can exist.

I'm not sure what I believe.