u/CockroachNo3453

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

I was wondering if anyone else is annoyed by how often they get posts like these on their feed. I hate Facebook but I need to go in there for my small business to find trends and stuff that are selling ...

I've opted out from receiving political posts' suggestion just to test what would happen and nothing changed. I keep getting these posts where hijabis are getting discriminated or treated badly on video.

I reported the post in the picture attached (this is from Youtube) twice today so that it gets taken off my sight and was still shown to me AGAIN after a while.

Is the algorithm doing this to you too?

edit: corrected a word + added photo's source

The brother removed the thread so my comment couldn't go through. This is the comment. Inshalah it helps a bit with the doubts:

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و عليكم السلام و رحمة الله تعالى و بركاته

Are you a Muslim? According to what you said in this thread and the definition of what a Muslim is according to Sharia then you're a Muslim. You witness that there's no one worthy of worship except for Allah سبحانه و تعالى and that Mohamed صل الله عليه و سلم is his messenger and you fulfill all of pillars of Islam أركان الإسلام. 

You're a Muslim.

Does a Muslim have to be sinless? No and it's impossible. 

عن أنس بن مالك رضي الله عنه قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : كلُّ بني آدم خَطَّاءٌ، وخيرُ الخَطَّائِينَ التوابون

Translation: Anas (RAA) narrated that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: “All the sons of Adam are sinners, but the best of sinners are those who repent often.” 

And repenting doesn't mean you're not prone to doing it again. 

There's a very beautiful hadith qudusi about this: 

- قال اللهُ تعالى : يا ابنَ آدمَ ! إِنَّكَ ما دَعَوْتَنِي ورَجَوْتَنِي غَفَرْتُ لكَ على ما كان فيكَ ولا أُبالِي يا ابنَ آدمَ ! لَوْ بَلَغَتْ ذُنُوبُكَ عَنانَ السَّماءِ ثُمَّ اسْتَغْفَرْتَنِي غَفَرْتُ لكَ ( ولا أُبالِي ( يا ابنَ آدمَ ! لَوْ أَتَيْتَنِي بِقُرَابِ الأرضِ خطَايا ثُمَّ لَقِيْتَني لاتُشْرِكْ بِيْ شَيْئًَا لأتيْتُكَ بِقِرَابِها مَغْفِرَةً .

Translation: Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Allah, the Exalted, has said: 'O son of adam, I forgive you as long as you pray to Me and hope for My forgiveness, whatever sins you have committed. O son of 'Adam, I do not care if your sins reach the height of the heaven, then you ask for my forgiveness, I would forgive you. O son of 'Adam, if you come to Me with an earth load of sins, and meet Me associating nothing to Me, I would match it with an earthload of forgiveness."'

Is it normal to stop studying ilm or not as much as you used to? COMPLETELY normal and happens to the best of us and it's normal because we believe that iman level goes up and down. It's perfectly normal to not have the same energy for ilm everyday. The number one way of increasing it is by listening to quran, reading it, thinking about how accurate and how it's full of miracles.

إِنَّمَا ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ ٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِرَ ٱللَّهُ وَجِلَتۡ قُلُوبُهُمۡ وَإِذَا تُلِيَتۡ عَلَيۡهِمۡ ءَايَٰتُهُۥ زَادَتۡهُمۡ إِيمَٰنٗا وَعَلَىٰ رَبِّهِمۡ يَتَوَكَّلُونَ

صدق الله العظيم 

Translation: The believers are only those who, when Allah is mentioned, their hearts become fearful, and when His verses are recited to them, it increases them in faith; and upon their Lord they rely 

There's this lecture I recommend that helped me a lot in combating perfectionism. It's in Arabic but I think I've seen AI tools that help translate from YouTube or at least resume) : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K2LhLD3ZBYQ&t=4s&ra=m

As for worrying about sins. Making Dua with سيد الإستغفار. The meanings in it are very beneficial inshalah.: Admitting that we as humans are weak but at the same time saying that we're still trying to keep the promise as best as we can "خلقتني و أنا عبدك و انا على عهدك و وعدك ما استطعت".

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ps: Sorry if there are any mistakes in meaning/conjugating. English is not my first language.

I do embroidery and I'm pretty skilled at this technique called thread painting and I want to make patterns of it.

There are 3 issues I'm thinking about:

-It takes waaaay too long to make a pattern.

- I'm afraid that when people see that they would think they can't do it.

- AI patterns taking over embroidery.

I'm in many embroidery groups on fb and I see most people using the cheapest kits.

Do people buy expensive patterns? especially in this economy (I'm in the US) when I say expensive digital patter I mean above 15$.

Disclaimer: the piece in the picture is not mine.

I stumbled upon this print (which I kinda liked) and was thinking: are we allowed to list things like this? etsy won't falsely flag it as promoting self harm?

I want to draw on this fabric called kona cotton but I'm struggling to get shapes drawn accurately.

I'm using a cricut maker 4.

I tried to test it against muslin cotton on all settings I could think of and all types of mats I have but this kona does horribly in all of them and can't draw a simple small circle. Is it a setting option? Did anyone here tried to draw on a fabric that they could easily sew on later? Because the muslin is lovely but its holes are very tight for me to sew on. (yes I tried the smallest needle)