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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.

By: u/NoWhile3145

What are your thoughts on this?

“Agnostic muslim” sounds contradictory but isnt.

i believe that us as humans we have no ability to test God's existence, we cant leave our universe and take a look above, and we cant use any equipment to detect God, means we cant prove Gods existence or disprove it. (We cant prove both religion or Atheism ).

But i choose to believe in God, idk what it is, but i choose to, and I practice islam, pray and everything.

My belief made sense to me, because even in islam’s teachings, life is a test, God is meant to be hidden, it wouldn’t be a test if the answer is right there would it?

Yes God sent down prophets and miracles, as messengers and hints, but some accuse them of mental illness or any other reason.

I thought i was just a normal muslim, but apparently Im not, Im an “Agnostic theist” by definition.

Agnosticism = a philosophical stance, that the matter or Gods existence is unknown or unknownable, whether right now, or in general.

I thought us as belivers only belive not know, I mean isn’t this the whole point? And why it is called “belief” (Iman) in the first place?

But Apparently not. Other theists and muslims don’t think like me, they either believe that the scripture is enough and clear evidence, or that they don’t need evidence they just know it in their hearts.

I dont “know” it, I just believe it, somethings i genuinely believe and somethings I try to. But I cant fool myself to know any of it.

Am I still muslim? Thoughts?

Edit: definitions

Belief = thinking that something is true.

Knowledge = a belief that is justified with evidence.

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/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/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/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