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Feeling stuck + lots of family expectations are on me so I thought I’d ask on here cuz I honestly don’t have a clue

I want to enroll in medical school in the university of Sharjah but my friends are seriously telling me not to, apparently it’s incredibly hard I also would like to know how are the questions that are given and is the environment any good + most importantly the main question of the post thank you very much

Been wrestling with my Islamic identity for a while, I bought a bunch of Arabic Islamic books from tafaseer to explanation books of hadith and asbab al nuzul etc around a year ago and I got well versed into the religion but I had a strong feeling I was eventually gonna leave but kept on putting it off maybe it’s because of an identity issue or because of a mental load that I couldn’t get off my brain honestly not sure, I also stopped praying a couple of months ago which almost confirmed me eventually leaving in the back of my head, I hate how this religion is soo anti life fiqh genuinely feels like being chained up and not being able to move without the permission of scholars, It’s pretty crazy how every time you’d like to do something wether it’d be intimate with your partner or making friends or the hobbies you pursue you’ll always need to refer back to these scholars, It’s actually disgusting and extremely anti freedom and life generally speaking, I’ve got many other reasons for leaving Islam from ethical ones and theological/Philosophical ones and scientific reasons etc but yea I thought I’d put this out there since I have no one to talk to about this also sorry if I’m using the wrong flair

My size is 6.5X6 (Not BP) and it’s not like I am devastated over this but I wish it was in the 7inch range because I feel as though men who are in the 6 inch category are stuck within a gray area like it’s not small but it’s also not big or that big, And it’s definitely not huge so yea.

Al salamu alykum I have a question regarding islamic ethics and divine command, I’d like to discuss the following without necessarily defining “good” and “bad” because I feel like our topic is going to change from divine command specifically to a discussion of ethics as a whole.

Allah has sent down different prophets with different forms of sharia eg:

"And I will confirm the Torah revealed before me

*and legalize some of what had been forbidden to you*. I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so be mindful of Allah and obey me." 3:150

"We forbade the Jews certain foods that had been lawful to them for their wrongdoing, and for hindering many from the Way of Allah," 4:160

And many such examples.

This indicates that not every prophet had the same legal/ethical system divinely revealed to them by Allah which would indicate these terms we refer to as "Good" or "bad" simply boil down to Allah's divine command.

Divine command as an ethical system becomes self destructive when the person who adheres to this ethical system begins to make judgements regarding what is ought to be deemed "good" or

"bad" because your ethical system denies these terms and instead replaces them with God's command and slaps the label of "good" on what is deemed to be permissible by him and "bad" on what is deemed to be impermissible by him.

So now I, as a muslim who personally finds divine command to be a shaky ethical system, I'm simply asking for your thoughts on this and on what basis do we exactly criticize other religions' ethical systems who don't adopt divine command but have a solid basis for their ethics and can logically justify what "good" and "bad" are, you don't have to believe in divine command to engage with this ofc, Jazakum Allah Khair.