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hello , I am an atheist (nihilist) and thantophobia is ruining my mental health and life tbh. it has gotten so bad that I am unable to properly eat now.

I belong to a culturally muslim family, my parents are muslim just for the sake of it and my dad does not believe in afterlife

but I want to be a muslim seriously, very desperately, I am using an alt acc. I have no problems with Islam honestly, I think its the best among all religions. I can write an essay on it too but I want to be convinced about god or afterlife scientifically

Ik reddit isn’t the best place but my country isn’t a muslim majority one and there are not many muslims I can talk to. I tried talking to my father and my phobia got worse because he completely dismissed afterlife

i want to get some rest

i am being so serious

pls help me

Salam alayikum
I’m a young sister who has always tried my best to practice Islam and stay away from haram. Lately, though, something has been weighing heavily on my heart.
Because of years of bullying, I started wearing makeup. I know that many scholars consider it sinful in certain situations, and I understand the reasoning behind that. At first, I felt a lot of guilt about it.
However, I was told that all the good deeds I do—my salah, reading the Qur’an, making du’a, my daily dhikr and ziyarah—are pointless because I’m going to burn in Hell anyway for wearing makeup. Hearing that devastated me.
Instead of bringing me closer to Allah, those words pushed me away. I gradually stopped making du’a, stopped reading the Qur’an, and lost much of the hope I used to have. Alhamdulillah, I still pray my five daily prayers, but inside I feel broken.
I’ve even found myself having thoughts that scare me, such as: “If Allah is the Most Merciful and the Most Forgiving, why would He send me to Hell alongside truly evil people simply because I wear makeup?”
I don’t want to think this way. I want my relationship with Allah back, but I’m struggling, confused, and hurt.
Please, if anyone can offer sincere advice based on the Qur’an and authentic Sunnah, I would really appreciate it.
Jazakum Allahu khayran.

Assalamualaikum everyone! Today, one of my Christian friends sent me a reel with the caption, "Where is their Allah now?" The video showed a woman saying they wouldn't get bombed because Allah was with them, followed by a bomb dropping. I told him I thought the reel was insensitive. Not just because it mocked Islam, but because it was making light of people who are actually being bombed and killed

I also pointed out that Allah simply means God in Arabic and he told me that only muslims use it. However, I corrected him and said that Arab Christians use the word Allah as well. It showed me that he's willing to make claims about other religions without first understanding the facts. Which hes done many times. We've had discussions before where I've told him that if he's going to claim Christianity is the absolute truth, he should at least make an effort to understand other religions before dismissing or criticizing them.

The bigger issue is that this isn't an isolated incident. He often comes across as insensitive, extremely conservative, and at times outright rude toward people who think differently. It's making me question whether this is someone I want to keep as a friend, or if it's healthier to distance myself from him.

Any advice would be appreciated! JazakAllah khairan!

Advice from muslim perspective on this matter? Is this accepted in a muslim community?

So, this man was engaged to a woman for a couple of years, but she was refusing to agree on the sexual things he wanted to do to her. Then he got mad and out of revenge, he paid for an arranged marriage with another woman, and he decided to call off the wedding a day before because he didn't like her.

Then, he tried to go back to the first woman. And the second woman started to make his life hell.

Thoughts?

As the title says, my ex and I broke up after 3 years for the sake of my deen. She was a non-muslim who reverted this ramadan and was genuinely seeking guidance just like I was. Throughout our relationship, we committed zina and more even though I was aware of the gravity of my actions, i let it continue. I lost my rizq, my values, and a sort of peace islam gave me prior to meeting her. She's not a bad person nor did she try to pull me away from my deen, it was all my doing. Im in my mid 20s and i have no wealth, nothing but debt. Ive learned my lesson the hard way and I should continue seeking forgiveness from Allah as I keep trying to fix what I've damaged. It is hard I cant lie, she was my best friend and we understood each other so effortlessly, it was this sort of incompatibility that ruined what would've been so beautiful but again, we sinned and God has created such an effortless opportunity for us to break up so easily. Whenever I've asked God for guidance, we always had some sort of conversation that would lead to ending what we had. Only a fool (me) would continue to ignore the signs for the sake of "pleasure". I've prioritized pleasure and i now have nothing. I cannot find an employment for the life of me, 500+ jobs applied to yet nothing. God has locked a door shut for me and I'm grateful that He still calls out to me after all the sins I've committed. This isn't gonna be easy but there's always a light at the end of the tunnel. I'll be forever grateful if you could take the time to make du'a for me. I miss God and praying felt extremely therapeutic today. May we all find the peace and happiness we deserve by the will of God.

Wanted to share this here because it sits right at the intersection of our tradition and modern tech, and I think the ummah has an underused edge in this space.

Modern AI systems have a trust problem: when a multi-agent system answers you, that answer has passed through several "hands" — a scraper, an ingestion model, a synthesis model — and each can drop, distort, or invent. The field can log what happened, but has no principled way to grade who transformed a claim and how much to trust the result.

If that sounds familiar, it should. Our scholars faced a structurally identical problem 1,200+ years ago with hadith transmission, and built arguably the most rigorous transmission-criticism methodology in pre-modern history: isnād (complete chain attached to every narration), rijāl (grading every narrator's ʿadālah and ḍabṭ), weakest-link evaluation, corroboration through independent chains, and naqd al-matn (criticizing content independently of the chain).

My paper transfers that methodology into AI system design — a graded registry of "narrators" (models, scrapers, sources), claim-level chains, and a decision matrix for what to serve, review, or quarantine.

No lab, no university, just an independent builder from Pakistan who's spent years standing in both worlds through Islam & AI. Sharing in case it inspires someone here to mine our tradition for ideas the rest of the field hasn't thought of yet.

Paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21211291
Gist: https://gist.github.com/alizahidraja/56beaadf493976182f38aa602b8958e2

JazakAllah khair

Okay

So i dont pray and i have been thinking of getting back but it prayer and islam in general just remind me of a horrible time in my life where i had religious ocd

So i just stopped praying.. i still make dua, sometimes dhikr, but never prayer. Even jumaah.

My question is: if i do return to prayers (say once a day) would it make my life better?

Like maybe the stuff i want from allah would happen to me, or maybe he'd give me something better?

My brain links prayer to religious ocd and constant stress so its hard. I just wanna know if it will maybe change my life in a positive way or something so maybe i could start

i recently passed 12th ik it doesn't seems like a big problem but i want to leave this city asap for further education

my family is strictly against this idea idk what to do but if i don't go i will regret it for the rest of my life i have prayed 3 tahajjud and 1 salat al hajat i really want to leave but no one in my entire bloodline have ever left like this especially not a women

i have a problem with praying , i can't maintain pray for along time cuz of laziness or anything else , idk how to keep praying in masjed cuz im too lazy to go 5times to masjed every single day i think it's need a great soul to do it, i actually need help for that..