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For context: I am an ex-muslim (apatheist) for 6 years or so, I'm currently reading more about the Bahai faith, I generally like it. I have 2 concerns

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My First Concern is About spirituality

In these 6 years, I had developed a materialistic and very scientific way of thinking, when reading "Kitab al-aqdas" I still read it with a critical eye, I am still comparing it to Quran (in terms of linguistics, since I am Arab), and I am still unconsciously feel biased to Quran (in terms of figures of speech, not the content), generally, I feel very skeptical towards the holy texts and prayers and less spiritual. I feel I lost this spiritual sense when I left Islam long time ago

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My Second Concern is About Beliefs

Let me give an example here, I was born and raised on the belief that Jesus was not crossified. Bahais believe that Jesus was crossified, even though I left Islam, I can't deny that the first idea has a stronger impact on my mind. Now, if I converted to Bahai, and was asked about whether Jesus was crossified or not, my honest answer will be "I don't care". I personally don't belive or disbelieve such a thing, completely neutral. This is the case with many beliefs inside the religion, as long as the belief doesn't touch me directly (specially historical things like this), I don't care so much. But I do really care about the the unity of god, religion and humanity

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Can you share your experiences about feeling spiritual in Bahai coming from religious-then-irreligious background? Also, does it require to care about details I mentioned above to be a Bahai?

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TL;DR: lab results shows dropped (ig) IR results to 3.46, my routine was easier than what I expected

I wrote this comment a week ago, I will recap so you don't have to read it

Last time I made a HOMA-IR was on 09-01-2025 (1.5 years ago), the results were:

• HbA1c: 5.4%
• Fasting Glucose: 84
• Fasting Insulin: 26.17
• HOMA-IR: 5.43

But believe me, I was very careless about my food and exercise since then (until this month, 01-06-2026), on that day, I started to follow a diet, so, I will assume that HOMA-IR was remaining the same all that time of carelessness

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Today, after 3 weeks of dieting, I got the chance to do my medical checks today, and the results are

• HbA1c: 5.00%
• Fasting Glucose: 94.16
• Fasting Insulin: 14.88
• HOMA-IR: 3.46

I am so happy, I will share my diet but I want to declare few points:

• This is not a medical advice, this is what worked for me
• I am a GIANT person, while I have 60+ kg of fats, I also have 45+ kg of muscles, so maybe my muscle mass played a role in that

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What was the diet?

Personally, I am not buying the idea of doing keto or low carb, I was fed up enough with social media dietitians who are blaming you for following your basic instincts and demonizing every single food item ever. If it works for you, congratulations, if it's not, we are humans, I get you. So my diet was more of a "set of rules" than a "diet", following a set of rules is easier to sustain over the long run (at least in my experience)

These are the rules I followed:

• 500 cal deficit
• Clean & complex carbs (no white bread, no white sugar, no honey)
• Single source of carb per meal (either beans, potatoes or whole grain bread, not all of them)
• Don't eat carb alone
• 10-15 minutes walk immediately after each meal, I live in a country that's extremely hot nowadays, so I replace walking with Soleus pushups for 15 minutes if it's too hot (only few times)
  • This has gradually increased to 30 minutes, but start with 15 minutes
  • BTW this indirectly helped me by delaying my first meal as much as I can
• Replace sugars as much as I can (stevia sweetened chocolate bars, sweeteners, zero sugar soda, etc)
  • Btw, stevia sweeteners with sorbitol and sucralose are perfect since they have no aftertase, the only downside is that they are not 0 calorie, they have low calories though (3 calories or so)
• Fasting (either macrofasting (interittment fasting) or microfasting (fasting between meals))
• Staying hydrated (started with 2L and raised it gradually to 4L)
• Focus on your protein specially in your first meal
• Listen to your body
  • If you don't feel like craving sugar, don't eat something sweet, by time you will find yourself skipping whole days without eating anything sweet, and vice versa
• I didn't take metformin, I noticed chromium cause diarrhea for me so I take it only if I feel I have blockage in my colon

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Results

Things that Enhanced:

• Weight Loss: -2.9 KG
  • Not the best I know, I believe because of my little vitamin D and B-12, I will start taking medications for them. Also, many people and Gemini said that IR reversal passes through a "stall then fall" stage, I am walking slowly but most importantly in a way that doesn't let me hate the process and easily adapt it as a lifestyle
• Other enhancements:
  • No acnes (neither my face nor my body)
  • 3 weeks with no single painkiller pill in my mouth (I usually have my panadol migrane in my pocket, taking 2-4 pills every week)

Things that remained the same

• Sleep quality:
  • I will consider doing checks for magnesium level, my sleep is still bad, I wake up feel my body is crashed and very tired still, I am hoping this will enhance as we go

Things that worsen

• I became more prone to constipation, chromium saves me at the last minute but this is something to figure out

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Some Raised concerns and Next steps

• Check my blood pressure, I know it's above normal range, I was expecting to be reduced, but today in the lab, I got 148 / 91. Which is really shocking (I don't have hypertension, but my BP is elevated due to IR and I see that whenever I donate blood)

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Separate Notes (will add to this section whenever I remember something)

• Any raising of activity, hydration, etc... was done easily, I don't feel forced to do it, this is the whole point
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I am an ex-muslim, currently in my journey of seeking truth. I am now exploring Bahai faith. More specifically, I am reading "Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era" book. I am sharing this quote that made me wondering

>Most wonderful of all, their hearts were so brimming over with the joy of a new life as to leave no room for thoughts of bitterness or vindictiveness against their oppressors. They entirely abandoned the use of violence in self-defense, and instead of bemoaning their fate, they considered themselves the most fortunate of men in being privileged to receive this new and glorious Revelation and to spend their lives or shed their blood testifying to its truth.

My question is: is this a core of the religion (to forgive and love over self-defend/revenge against your oppressor) or it's just a subjective vision for the new believers as a result of enlightenment? If it's a core of the religion, doesn't this makes the believers too passive and accepting for unfairness/injustice instead of calling against it? I understand that the core of Bahai faith is to create a united humanity, but I want to mention a couple of extra points that made me think of this question

• From a psychology point of view: protecting your borders and standing for yourself is correlated with feeling less ashamed, and gaining more self-respect. Many therapy schools (like DBT, ACT) use this information as a technique
• In Islam (which where I came from), something similar is mentioned already

>And whoever avenges himself after having been wronged - those have not upon them any cause [for blame] (41) The cause is only against the ones who wrong the people and tyrannize upon the earth without right. Those will have a painful punishment. (42) And whoever is patient and forgives - indeed, that is of the matters [requiring] determination. (43)
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>surah 42, ayah 41-43

Thus, in Islam, there is no blame for those who defend themselves, and the better thing is to forgive. Is it the same in Bahai faith

Thanks a lot

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My question is: is it worth it to invest the next 2 years learning French? I mean will I be invited at 491 points with French knowledge? Thanks a lot

I tried to change the fonts in my S24 Ultra after April update (one ui 8.5) and it only worked when using the samsung exclusive fonts + Shizuku

So, first of all thank you u/htetznaing for all the hard work

I have just a very small question. Since there is no font in the exclusive section supports Arabic (as far as per my search), it will always fallback to the android noto naskh for arabic language.

Is there any chance to have some of these fonts support Arabic? I tried to merge fonts but I couldn't even find the apk, any clue if this is possible?

I am an Ex-muslim, currently agnostic. I have started researching about the bahai faith, I left Islam because of the unethical principles it allows (polyamory marriage, slavery, male privileges in heritage, etc...)

I went to the website and I found this right away in the landing page:

> Throughout history, God has sent to humanity a series of divine Educators—known as Manifestations of God—whose teachings have provided the basis for the advancement of civilization. These Manifestations have included Abraham, Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and Muḥammad. Bahá’u’lláh, the latest of these Messengers, explained that the religions of the world come from the same Source and are in essence successive chapters of one religion from God.

My questions are:

• Is "Allah" of bahai the same god of Islam?
• If so, why was he so "unfair" when he sent past prophets? What was his point? I understand that Bahai faith is no longer discriminate by gender, but again why did it do before?

Thanks a lot in advance

• About me: I am a backend developer who shifted careers 3 years ago, self learning, no bootcamps, I still have some CS gaps and I am filling it as much as I can

My current company informed me few months back that they won't extend my work permit/visa, it will end in November and I will be on unpaid leave for 6 months. I have been job hunting since January, the market in my residence country is very small. Current potential companies that I have in hand are:

company	business model	progress	status	pros	cons
Company A	consulting/outsourcing	Done 5 rounds (coding test, 3 technical interviews, 1 HR interview)	Ghosted since February, after 3 follow ups, they replied today that my position is full but they are currently looking for developers like me who have OCP Java certificate and they can wait until I obtain it, but won't hire me before getting it	Excellent salaries, outsource to multinational companies	not very good hiring experience with them
Company B	software house	Screening call + a task (task done 1 month ago)	engineering team still evaluating tasks (last update yesterday)	Good salaries & benefits	slow hiring process

Beside continue applying and even looking for jobs in other countries, I have 3 options that came in my head, I need to hear from you too, what should I do for the next 6 months?

• Prepare for OCP Java Certificate to satisfy Company A
• Learn MEAN stack for Company B
• Filling my CS Gaps (learning missing topics + continue contributing to a couple of OSS)
• Other thing?

I am trying since morning (12:00 pm utc) but I always get "save failed", tried to clear cache, use incognito, even use the sample images, using both web and mobile apps, nothing changes