r/askislam

If a person is unable/would not prefer to perform daily salah due to circumstances they can't control, will doing it digitally, for example in Roblox, with proper intention be enough to be counted for salah?

I was born in a majority Muslim country, so I naturally grew up knowing a lot about Islam. At a certain point in my life, however, I began reading more extensively and educating myself about the religion. One issue that I genuinely struggle to understand is how Muslims reconcile their belief in a prophet who, according to traditional Islamic sources, married a six year old girl and consummated the marriage when she was nine.

The counterarguments I usually hear are:

1. It was common at the time.
2. This was what God guided him to do.
3. Women reach puberty differently depending on their race and geographical environment.

However, even if such marriages were common at the time, wouldn't a prophet be expected to understand that this could still be harmful to a young girl who is taking on enormous physical, emotional, and mental responsibilities before she has fully developed? And if Muhammad himself was somehow an exception to what would otherwise be considered harmful, why didn't he explicitly state that he was an exception? Doing so could have limited or at least reduced the number of underage marriages that continue to occur in some Muslim majority countries.

This is not simply a matter of modern opinion. The concerns surrounding child marriage, early pregnancy, and the consequences of having children before full physical and psychological maturity have been extensively studied in medicine, psychology, and public health. Research has consistently documented serious physical and mental health risks associated with child marriage and adolescent pregnancy, including increased risks to both the mother and child.

Furthermore, puberty itself does not mean that a girl is biologically or psychologically ready to become pregnant or take on the responsibilities of marriage and motherhood. This is also well established scientifically. Regardless of race, geography, or environment, reaching puberty is not equivalent to reaching full physical or psychological maturity. The fact that someone is biologically capable of reproduction does not mean that their body or mind has completed its development or that pregnancy and childbirth are therefore safe.

Another issue I struggle with concerns a hadith in which Muhammad reportedly instructed some men in the desert to drink camel milk and urine as a treatment for an illness. When I looked further into this claim, I could not find scientific evidence establishing camel urine, or urine generally, as an effective treatment for disease. In contrast, medical research has identified potential health risks associated with consuming urine, including exposure to harmful microorganisms and other contaminants. The broader scientific evidence does not establish urine consumption as a medically effective treatment for disease.

Again, these are not merely personal opinions or arguments based on modern cultural preferences. Many of the concerns I am raising have been extensively researched and studied in medicine, biology, psychology, and public health. There is substantial scientific evidence concerning the risks of child marriage, adolescent pregnancy, incomplete physical and psychological development, and the potential health dangers associated with consuming untreated biological waste products such as urine.

This leads to my broader question: how can someone continue to believe in a religion when they believe its prophet was an illiterate man who, according to its own traditional sources, engaged in wars, killed people, married a child, and described women as ناقصة عقل, meaning "deficient in intellect" or "deficient in reason"?

More specifically, how does a Muslim man reconcile that description with the women he loves and respects in his own life? How does he accept the idea that this label could be applied to his own mother or sister? And how do Muslim women themselves reconcile being described in this way with their understanding of their own dignity, intelligence, and worth?

I am not asking these questions simply to attack Muslims or Islam. I am genuinely trying to understand how these apparent contradictions can be reconciled. If Muhammad is supposed to be the ideal moral example for humanity, I struggle to understand why actions and statements that are strongly criticized by modern scientific and ethical understanding, and that have demonstrable consequences for human health and wellbeing, are attributed to him and yet defended rather than critically examined.

My question, ultimately, is this: what is the theological and moral reasoning that allows a person to look at these issues honestly, consider the historical sources as well as the scientific evidence surrounding the consequences of these practices, and still conclude that Muhammad was a divinely guided and morally exemplary prophet?

Hello Muslim friends. I’m hoping to understand how Islam views certain ideas found in the Jewish Tanakh. I know Muslims believe the original revelations to the prophets were true, even if the current text isn’t fully preserved, so I’m asking about the concepts rather than assuming the text is perfect.

Here are two passages from the Tanakh that mention a "son". Please help me understand them from an Islamic perspective.

Isaiah 9:6–7
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder;
and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this."

Proverbs 30:4
“Who has ascended to heaven and come down?
Who has gathered the wind in his fists?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!”

How do Muslims interpret the idea of the "son" in these passages? Thank you.

Salam Alaikum Muslim friends.. I'm here to seek clarification as to how Muslims view the Son of Man in the Hebrew Scriptures, namely, Daniel 7:

^(13) “I saw in the night visions,

and behold, with the clouds of heaven
there came one like a son of man,
and he came to the Ancient of Days
and was presented before him.
^(14) And to him was given dominion
and glory and a kingdom,
that all peoples, nations, and languages
should serve him;
his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away,
and his kingdom one
that shall not be destroyed.

Who is this Son of Man according to Islamic belief? Thank you.

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So recently i was having very disturbing dreams, every night about having intercourse with smone, or seeing some people having intercourse. And according to some reasons independent from my dreams my mother took me to ruqyah practitioner. He was doing ruqyah and honestly i didn't feel anything, "jinn"/whatever it is in me didn't contact the ruqyah practitioner if it is there. Then the practitioner said we need to do "chilyasin" a practice of recitation of surah YaSin by some mullah, as my "jinn is not contacting". Also he gave some paper with arabic writings and told to burn them and inhale its smoke (that made me disturbed, because as far as i know in true Islamic teachings there's nothing like that, but i might lack knowledge)

And today i was scrolling when i got a reels saying "seeing zina in your dream is the sign of jinn falling in love with you, and that such people need ruqyah, and that this jinn will cause marriages fall apart and everything. So i really started thinking about it, as just yesterday i broke up with my husband-to-be even though there wasn't a clear reason for that, everything was good and we were soon going to marry. Also my ruqyah practitioner said the same, meaning to say having dreams with zina refer to jinn in love.

Then i started doing some research and found out that it's natural to have erotic dreams, and you need to do ghusl if there's a discharge after that, but no where did i find anything about jinn involvement in dreams. It was only suggested to spit over a shoulder and ask help from Allah.

And i am confused now. Do my dreams really mean a jinn involvement? Or are those sayings baseless? Is my ruqyah practitioner truthful or is he some kind of "magician"? I really need some answers

What do i have to do to convert to Islam? I am currently no religion but want to know how to learn the fundamentals of Islam.

If my understanding is correct muslims ought to follow the examples of Allah and the prophet. And according to this ayath, it says if you don't give up interest, fear war with the prophet and Allah.

So does that mean muslims ought to go to war against people who take and give interest or is there any other interpretation.

Source : https://quran.com/al-baqarah/278

Hello, hi. I am Turkish and muslim.

In Turkey, courts use secular civil law. In south eastern Kurdish zones of Turkey sunni families were used to do their marriages according to Islamic law until a dacede or two ago. No one regards Allah's law anymore nowadays. As a member of westerner maturidi and hadith rejecter familiy, all of the women going to be introduced to me are pro secular law gold digging snobs who doesn't worth a wedlock and marrying to one would make me a dayuth anyway or possibly even a kafir. Hence my local women are not fit, i decided to marry a tayyiba from ahl al kitab instead. However the same problem repeats in here again. No christian or a jew from other countries would want to use islamic customs. So, if we view this marriage as a mutual contract, would applying secular civil law be Islamically permissible when marrying a foreign woman from ahl al-Kitab? Or would they no longer be deemed Ahl al-Kitab if they insist on Turkish civil law? What are your opinions?

I'm 14 and today at fajr prayer I arrived at 4:00 +20 on the dot. But then 20 extra minutes got added to the clock which confused me because the prayer should be at 4:20(adhan at 4:00 with 20 mintes extra) not 20 and another 20 minutes. So I was one of the first to be there and I was asking the Imam some questions so I was right behind the Imam. And the prayer started but then 2 older men told me to go back because there was no place even though I was there first and there was place for one more next to me so I went back because I didn't know what to do. Should I have stood my ground as I was there before either of them? And if you could explain why 20 minutes was added to the clock that would be great too.

Other things I say like I'm bowing down to dajjal not because I believe it but because it helps me realize how stupid the things I think in my head is as I'm obviously bowing down to god this also happens outside of prayer and I also get intrusive thoughts about leaving salah or wudu and I tell myself "I have now left salah" but I obviously haven't and my intention isn't to leave salah, wudu or Islam but to get rid of the thoughts.