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Allah SWT has granted me a job, a business, more money than I can imagine. He has gotten me clients, an industry (direction) and even helped me sustain my income.

He improved my relations with everyone in my life - specially my parents.

He has reunited me with the love of my life. I have been looking for this person since the past 11-13 years. My heart has been searching for him since I was a kid.

He grants my dua(s) even before I expect.

He has healed certain health conditions of mine that have troubled me for 18 years.

All of this happened after I became a revert and started praying and got close to him.

Before being a revert I had struggled with my career/love/health for more than 1/2 a decade.

I tried exploring so many religions/paths like Law of Attraction etc. but nothing worked for me.

He has healed my anxiety/depression and other mental health illnesses. He has made me feel his presence.

He has even granted my small duas(s) like spotting a yellow car or red car in my city (very rare) or made the thunder roar or made it rain just because I asked him for it.

Even becoming a revert is a dua of mine that he has granted.

Please respond in the comments. I don’t have any Muslims around me and wish to talk to everyone!

I am so excited, I became a revert very recently and wish to be a Muslim till I die!!! Ya Allah, please keep me on the correct path, always!

I still have such an endless list of wishes but my number one dua will always be to love my lord so much that my worldly duas never worry me again.

Alhamdullilah. The more I praise him the less it is. ❤️

Salaam everyone. This has been on my mind and I want honest perspective.

Allah blessed this ummah with nearly 2 billion people, resources, and strategic lands. Yet our brothers and sisters in Palestine, Kashmir, Rohingya, Sudan, and East Turkestan suffer, and Muslim nations rarely respond beyond statements. Even our own conflicts, like Sudan, are sometimes fueled by the wealthiest among us.

Smaller nations achieve real influence through unity and economics. Not comparing right and wrong, comparing results.

The Prophet said if the Hour comes while you hold a sapling, plant it. So here is my sapling.

What if the ummah built ONE Muslim country into a genuine economic power? Muslim founders base their startups there, Muslim capital concentrates there, it becomes the center of Islamic finance and tech, and talent moves there because that is where opportunity lives.

Over a generation, the ummah would have real leverage, the same kind every powerful nation uses to protect its people.

Which country realistically, and what should disqualify a candidate?

Allah changes the condition of people when they change themselves, 13:11. Maybe this is part of that change.

Jazakum Allahu khairan.

I'm getting married soon, InshaAllah, after a lot of patience! To anyone still waiting: never give up hope.

I have a question that might sound a bit silly, and I know there's probably no miracle answer. On the wedding day I'll be wearing makeup for the official ceremony, the party, and so on.

For those of you who are married (or husbands who know about this), how did you organize things so you didn't miss any prayer that day and could still make wudu?

The only solutions I see so far are:
- Keeping my wudu all day, which is a bit hard, lol
- Paying for a second makeup session during the day

But maybe you have other tips?

Thanks in advance !

Assalamu alaikum everyone,
I have been considering converting to Islam for quite some time. I feel very close to this faith, and it gives me something I cannot really put into words.
However, there is one thing I am worried about. I have a tattoo on my neck — a cross with wings. It is a memorial for someone in my family and has nothing to do with my religious beliefs. I am not baptized as a Christian either.
May I ask if this would be a major issue? I have longer hair, so the tattoo is practically not visible. Having it removed would be extremely painful for me, and I am not even sure whether removal would be possible.
What do you think? Would this prevent me from converting to Islam, or is it something I could simply leave as it is?
JazakAllahu khayran for your advice.

For a while now my brother, 13M, has been giving us a hard time with prayer and now he’s been saying he’s agnostic. I’ve asked him if it’s something he read or seen online he’s like nothing major, and that he doesn’t actively seek this content but he sees some comment from time to time ( I also secretly monitor his account so I know this is true).
I should mention he does suffer from anxiety which led to being ocd about his Wudu and prayer and repeating them until he got bored of them all together.
Right now my approach is not forcing him into any thing and showing him videos and lectures in hopes it might catch on.
What can I do? Any recs ? Videos or lectures I can show him (preferably scientifically backed)I’m in desperate need of help.

I feel like a lot of us Muslims, especially online, conflate gentleness with lenience, softness in speech with softness in our conviction, quietness with weakness.

For example suppose a Muslim brother or sister is struggling through a hard time and is discussing bad practices, haram interactions or even authubillah, taking one's own life etc. You might be correct when you comment they are wrong, you might be correct when you quote sahih hadith to provide evidence as to why they are wrong. You might be accurate in the words on paper, but is the behavior accurate in following the sunnah of our kind, considerate, beloved Prophet pbuH?

But does that mean we should bend the faith to coddle people who are on the wrong path? Obviously not. So then what should we do? It's not easy, for sure. But I think taking the time to add some words of empathy, without taking away from the Truth, is a practice we could all do a little bit more. When I point this out the response I often get is "Well, am I saying anything wrong??"

But... that's not the point.

Also with reverts/converts, I often see brothers especially get overly zealous in teaching and correcting, but that can be overwhelming especially for new reverts. So having patience, giving space to learn at their pace, this is also the gentleness that I believe is the sunnah of our Prophet pbuH.

Even with, or in fact, especially with non-believers, like say someone is gender confused and is asking to have certain pronouns to be used. As Muslims, it's important to be firm and uncompromizing in our Islam and not affirm their confusion. But as Muslims it's also important to have adab, so calling them names and being dismissive is not sunnah either. So what can we do? Personally, I like to simply avoid engaging if possible, and when I do, I stay respectful but completely avoid pronouns.

I also think about how I am, and we all are, ambassadors for Islam. So our behavior, our every word and action represents Islam to the people we engage with. Our adab is the first act of dawah.

I just want to remind myself, and also call on all my Muslim brothers and sisters, to recognize that we can be gentle and righteous at the same time, and lets put in a bit of effort, in the name of God, to be empathetic in our words, both in person and online.

Jazak Allahu khairan!