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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/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/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/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

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/ZenoMonch

By: u/ManiacEngineGlitxz

How does anyone get 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep during summers in most places in the world?

This is max 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep.

Im really struggling to see the reasoning around prayer times and things like qibla in general - are we still praying towards the Kabbah when we go to space? Why?

Even Hajj when Saudi Arabia is a extremely oppressive terrifying monarchy that works directly with billionaires to consolidate global hegemony and has gained its wealth from powering the Oil backed dollar and climate change at large - killing journalists, dissenters and criminalizing everything but strict observance to the most traditionalist fascistic interpretation of Islam.