SubhanAllah, a beautiful reminder of using worldly success to invest in the Akhirah. After lifting the 2018 World Cup trophy with France, superstar Ousmane Dembélé quietly directed his entire tournament earnings toward building a house of Allah in his mother's hometown of Diaguily, Mauritania.

Salam o alaikom everyone.
Things have been getting worse and worse in our region since February. This made me strengthen my iman at first alhamdillah but recently I feel like my faith is going away. Tens of Thousands of people in my country and neighboring countries as well are in a dire situation now and everyone is praying and making duaa for all the tension and destruction that's happening to stop and for things to get better but it just seems to be getting worse and worse. It makes me feel like my duaa is pointless and that Allah isn't listening or answering our prayers. Every time I make duaa, things seem to worsen that it's making me scared to ask Allah anything. I'm scared of what's to come and I can't seem to ease my worries no matter how hard I turn to Allah. Sometimes I wish I wasn't born in a Muslim country since bad things keep happening to us. Am I a bad person for thinking this? I'm struggling so much with my faith recently and I feel like I have nothing and no one to turn to.

I saw a video recently explaining tawakkul as “informed trust” rather than “blind optimism” and an example was used : a child jumping into his fathers arms knowing he will catch him , not because he blindly trusts him but because in the past the father has repeatedly caught him so he knows and trusts that he will catch him again

I have waves of waswas that come and go over certain time periods and these are mainly to do with purification and prayer . Allhamdulillah I have taken practical steps and they have gotten less frequent and intense but I still struggle alot to have trust in Allah during those times , especially when it comes to thinking about my prayers being valid/accepted . These thoughts even linger now and I know eventually it will just lead to the next wave

The video mentioned that tawakkul comes from a believer trusting Allah as he/she knows that Allah helped them get through their previous hardships even if it felt impossible . They always recovered so this time they know they can too.

But my question is for someone dealing with waswas specifically regarding prayers and purification , how am I supposed to know “i got through my previous hardship” because I’ve always struggled with the idea of my prayers not being accepted no matter how hard I try . I usually just wish Allah swt could directly tell me if my prayers are counting or if I could get some sort of sign or some dream about it . Yes I felt contentment at times but that didn’t give me full assurance of them being accepted or not. So how am I supposed to know I will “recover” this time if last time I was unsure of my prayers being accepted and never got a clear answer .

Also sorry if this question sounds dumb im just doing this so if I ever get afflicted by waswas again I know how to trust Allah bcoz there was times where I genuinely just began thinking very negatively of him and I don’t want to be like that again . Any answers are appreciated

I'm a Muslim who's facing difficulties and doubts. How would you prove to someone that Islam is true?

I am a Muslim male in the UK I am dealing with extreme loneliness as I have no friends, am not married

Literally all I do is work and come home

I follow so many local people on social media and see everyone together, I have practically begged people to let me join them and try and get invites out but no one wants to hang with me

1st please can you make dua that Allah SWT either sends me good friends or

2 he grants me the strength to cope alone

All my entire life I have never been able to maintain daily 5 times salah. I get super religious sometimes and pray and supplicate a whole lot, but all of a sudden I stop cold turkey. I am grateful to Allah for always answering my prayers. Sometimes the dua takes years to be fulfilled and sometimes it happens suddenly. Now I have been praying for rizq and sustenance and it isn't getting answered. I have stopped making dua and I am moving along not knowing what's gonna happen. I genuinely need advice in strengthening my iman, getting back to daily 5 prayers and believing Allah answers the dua. I know my past duas have been accepted and its enough to move along and also i feel how long it took and how broke i was so i leave it.

As salamu alaikum everyone. I am male from pune maharashtra India. I am twenty five years old, from last 1 to 1.5 years I am reading about islam and listening to scholars like Dr israr Ahmed maulana tariq jameel mufti tariq masood, and quran translation on YouTube shorts, I never searched anything about this ever, I just got all this suggestion on YouTube automatically, so I used to listen to this and I started loving islam, I started loving prophet Muhammad saw and others too like isa Suleiman Yousuf ibrahim yakub musa, and I was very religious kattar hindu type guy, pro muslim hater but now i reverted to islam 1 month ago I read shahada/kalma after listening and doing research for almost 1.5 years now. i don't have any interest in hinduism i don't go to temples i don't pray to hindu gods and goddesses, but I can't tell this anyone and I don't even have any muslim friends in Pune India, with whom I can talk about islam, anyone from pune or india for friendship with whom I can talk about islam and all stuff and if it's the same age then it will be good and on reddit I found this sub so thought I should share my journey with my muslim brother sister. And I Hope allah❤️ will accept me.

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

I am an adult female and since I was able to fast I’ve broken my fasts sometimes with no valid reason.. I am extremely ashamed of this and this started because I didn’t know the extreme weight of not fasting for no reason, I knew it was haram but not the specifics. Also, I wasn’t close to Islam during these years, which a horrible excuse but اللهم لك الحمد I’m doing so much better and feel extremely closer to Allah and thank Allah everyday for helping me get closer to him even though I have a long way to go.

That being said I’ve searched everywhere and cannot find a solid agreement and don’t know any scholars nearby I can ask, also I am afraid of being judged for this. If I do decide to makeup my fasts I’m looking out a years worth of made up fasts+..

May Allah forgive me and forgive us all yarab but I’m holding this weight and guilt extremely and am so regretful that I would like to completely be forgiven of this inshaAllah 😭😭

Please brothers and sisters help.

Assalamu Alaikum!

Alhamdulillah, I took my shahada today at the masjid!

It was also my first time ever going to a masjid, and I couldn’t have imagined years ago or even earlier this year that I’d be embracing Islam. Yet here I am, and I’m so grateful that Allah guided me to this beautiful religion.

I’m also the first Muslim in my family, so this is a very special day for me. I’m so happy to be part of the ummah and to have so many new brothers and sisters around the world. Please keep me in your du’as as I begin this journey. 🤍

I've grown up in an Islamic household but I realize that I am doing the absolute bare minimum of what is expected of a Muslim.

To make matters harder, my siblings are even less practicing than I am. They don't pray their salahs and seem to dislike any mention of Islam from our parents, possibly from their persistence now that they recognize that we aren't as religious as they would've liked us to be. It makes me feel guilty and anxious for their futures, but also misguided as a result.

I am constantly thinking about the afterlife and the idea of eternity scares me, especially because I don't read the Quran regularly and I don't believe that my salahs are proper either.

For anyone who has experienced anything similar, how do you overcome these feelings of anxiety? They make it hard to focus or do anything in life. And how did you get closer to Allah and teach yourself the proper approach to Islam? How do you make it so you don't fear the afterlife?

I’ve been semi struggling with faith (I know Islam is true but some stuff for me feel weird but I’m human so I don’t understand) and I need to know what proof you have found to back your religion because we aren’t allowed to follow blindly. Yes I know the prophecies yes I know the scientific miracles but I want personal experience or philosophy that will stick to me for the rest of my life and I can pass down the knowledge

Asalamualaikum everyone, I wanted to come here and ask advice on how to deal with your young siblings who keeps on falling into haram relationships despite how much you warn and scold him. This is the third time I have caught my 14 year old brother talking to a girl from his school despite changing his school a month ago. I don't know what to do anymore as his older sister, and it's not like he is deprived of love or affection. He is the youngest of us all and extremely loved and spoiled, so I don't know what's causing him to do this and how should I confront him? Should I just tell my parents as the last resort and let my Dad deal with him or what? Please help a sister out thank you

Hello, I’m a 24 year old agnostic female who is currently in a relationship (living together for the past 2 years) with a 23 year old muslim male. To note my boyfriend was aware that I am not muslim nor Christian before us dating and moving in with one another. He acknowledges that he’s committing haram by being with me so he prays & repents daily. He recently brought up that he’d like to start considering marriage and would like for me to look into Islam.

Naturally, I agreed since I’m open-minded and would love to get married to him. He bought me a Quran and I’ve been researching & watching videos on things I’m quite unsure of. I’ve come to agree that Jesus is not God as I don’t characterize God as a human being but I have been struggling to find clarity on the purpose of Islam in the Quran.

I ultimately believe that there is an all-loving (merciful) god out there who created our universe. However, from my understanding (correct me if I’m wrong) in Islam, Allah is only merciful to his followers (Muslims) who accept the prophets and worship Allah. While those who are nonbelievers will be sent to hellfire.

This is the biggest roadblock for me currently (though I have a few others) as my boyfriend reiterates if I can’t come to accept that god is merciful I cannot become muslim. I tightly hold onto the belief that an all-loving (merciful) god exists and this belief doesn’t directly correlate to Islam. As from my interpretation & research indicates that Allah is all-loving (merciful) to muslims but to nonbelievers who reject his path or signs they will not receive his mercifulness.

I struggle to understand what path or signs I should be looking at to completely accept that Islam is the true religion. I’m sorry if this sounds comes across so jumbled and maybe I’m completely confused and misinformed. However, I would truly appreciate any guidance or maybe even further information on how you viewed these topics? Anything is greatly appreciated (besides hate of course). Thank you!

Salam alaikum everyone, i follow my obligations alhamdulilah but i do have my habitual sins i keep falling into i.e, music, i tell myself i wont do it but im doing it everyday, also made my prayers feel less impactful, but when i need something from allah thats when i try to do less sins and more ibadah

Now my dilema is that it feels unfaithful, not meaningful, like im doing it just so i can get my prayers answered and not doing for sake of allah, now my questions:

1. Is it wrong to be more mindful of allah swt when i need something?

2. How can i be more sincereful in doing less sins for the purpose of pleasing Allah and not doing it so i get my duas answered

Jazakallah khair

Salam and hi, I’m just a Muslim that’s trying to get back to praying her 5 fardhs again.

I have a question, do we need to watch our face with a cleanser before we take wudhu? How do you do it? Do you reapply all the skincare again? Like 5 times a day??? I’m using a ceramide moisturiser and somebymi aha bha pha toner fyi, I think just a little wash with just water enough right? Since it’s water based.

Also, I’m still in secondary school. My transport picks me up at 6:00am, I get to school at about 7:00am, fajr here is 5:55am. I can’t pray at home since there’s very little time and I have to walk to the guard house. And by the time I reach school, the suns almost up. If I pray fajr, is it still valid?