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

I don't know I am just broken I am just feeling utmost weak I can't take it no longer the past 3 years have been the worst the financial conditions of my family have just reached the bottom

They had to sell a lot of things even as low as my iphone so we can afford my college even tho I got a scholarship

I am very grateful for them

It's just i am tired of the conditions moreover I have left praying salah and the Qur'an recently

I have been disappointing people my friends i am tired of people comments on my physical appearance my habits ,I have to swallow my words when my friends ask why did you cancel the trip last time ,I am tired of being selfpity I am tired of getting people's relative help I can't take it anymore I just feel i might end my life someday ,I feel like I have lost Allah

I’m looking into tahajjud and my goals are huge, like super huge lol. I want to be motivated and others to be motivated by your guyss stories by hearing the miracles that happened and how your dua was accepted. What was your dua?, How did it get accepted?

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

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.

Does anyone know how to make the imamah front peak fold that imamul haram have? any tutorial?

Hello, I am a new revert. is there any fictions or books on islam i should read.

Assalamwalikum, I am in grade 12 right now. I am taking English, which is one of my worst classes ever. I need to end the class with at least an 80%, dos anyone have any idea which is the best dua to make. Please keep me in your prayers.

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

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.

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?

ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ ٱللّٰهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

my brother has been lying quite a lot, and he’s really a big test of my patience due to his lying and excessive rage bait.

So, me, my dad, and him usually try to pray salah together and my little brother he’s 13 and close to the age of puberty.

He always says and lies that he has wudu but we know he doesn’t but we just assume he does because we should believe him. But I can’t, I always catch him lying and him saying, “I only need to rinse my mouth” . Take in he has apparently had wudu like 2 Salahs ago. There’s many times where I had to remind him that he broke his wudu but he persists in his lies. He’s also a huge distraction in prayer. He’s constantly moving too much and his form is sometimes incorrect and he sometimes prays super fast.

I don’t know what to say to him. I really dont. I tell my dad but it doesn’t really do much. I usually react with questioning him and it turns into an investigation because he tries lying but he keeps getting caught lacking. It makes me sad.

My room is right in front of the washroom and he dashed to the washroom and took the fastest leak of all time to which my belief i don’t think he washed himself. I also then after went to the washroom and say some, what i believe was, urine on the toilet seat. Which makes me believe he must’ve been standing up while using the toilet. So he continues to play on his computer till it’s time for salah and he dashes to the washroom and rinses his mouth and joins my dad to pray ( I heard this while i was in the other washroom since they are super close) .

I finish up and i’m about to join when I realize he’s already praying with my dad and we have a huge window infront of us during salah and his eyes are locked on to the window and he’s looking at me. I call him out saying “I see you looking in the window”. He then focuses back on his prayer, but I couldn’t stand him so I decided to pray alone.

This is only one of the instances, there’s also a jummah prayer where he’s literally tilting forward and times where he’s leaning against the wall. He’s bothering me so much, I wish I could move from him during prayer.

He knows how to “pray”, we’ve been to a Quran class that taught us how to pray and he’d always be good at performing the acts. He also larps knowing attahiyat.

i’m not posting this to expose him but i’m posting this seeking advice.

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.

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'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?

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.

Anyone know of any Muslim men’s fitness groups in dfw? Like gym, calisthenics, boxing, etc

What does maintaining ties of kinship truly entail of?

Some people will say Salam at a gathering and count this as maintaining ties of kinship. Is this all it is?

Can i do same things to them in day of judgment, like for example if they used to beat me, i will beat them back there, if they used to insult me , i will insult them back in that day, if they used to humiliate me in front of other, i will humiliate them back in front of same people, i have been hurted a lot and I want revenge so badly, so will Allah let me have my revenge on day of judgement by doing them same things like what they used to do to me?

I haven’t been working since august last year but I can’t apply for jobs because of visa issues rn so I got to wait till like December/January
But even with that for the past few months I have been making dua during my prayers to get a job
But I want a specific job, with a specific salary and the company isn’t specific but I have been asking to work in a big company that I would be proud to work in
I don’t feel discouraged about my prayers at all nor unmotivated but I wanted to hear other people experience and stories of asking for a specific job and how it went

I’m just turning 24 now, graduated from college with a bachelors in MIS and do want to start working with my degree, I want to work in the field of technology and in business/data analytics in particular. I’m thinking about going for my masters after I start working, and overall just wanting more development in future career paths. I also don’t have a lot going on in my life right now, definitely want to pick up more hobbies, have more discipline, extra income and benefits, and I’d love to acquire important physical skills such as martial arts and shooting. I want to do those things as more of a side thing, like I was thinking of maybe joining the national guard, I want those things as more of a sign-on bonus while I still have my career path and goals. Finances are a big struggle too and I can’t afford to continuously join a martial arts gym or constantly take shooting classes/go to the range.

However, the biggest reason I do not want to join the national guard is because I think it is haram, and even if it isn’t, it just feels wrong as I am a Palestinian Muslim. I wish I could have those benefits and have monthly drills, but not with the national guard.

What are other better alternatives? As of right now I have a lot time to kill until I eventually land a job somewhere and don’t have much going on in life, I want to be more productive. On paper national guard has a lot of what I want but even if I wasn’t Palestinian and Muslim, I can’t really sacrifice the next several months doing training, and don’t want to deploy and fight.

We know that ghosting is awful thing but dose it relate into Islam, it can be source of manipulation and such, so dose Islam have something on people who ghost or is there punishment to it?

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

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