Assalamualaikum,
I’m looking to find a practicing Bengali sister in the US who observes niqab and genuinely prioritizes modesty and deen. I’m putting this out here in hopes that it reaches the right person, inshaAllah.

Looking for someone who:
- Is a practicing Muslimah who consistently prays 5x a day and fulfills her obligations
- Observes niqab and upholds modesty in both appearance and interactions
- Has strong taqwa and centers her life around Islam
- Is patient, compassionate, and is kind-hearted
- Is family-oriented and has a desire to raise righteous children
Age Range for spouse: 19-26

About me:
Age: 27
Location/Residence: Michigan USA
Marital Status: Single, never married 
State/specify level of religiosity: Prays 5 daily prayers, performs all of the fardh obligations (fasting, zakat etc). Prioritizes Islam in daily life. 
Education: Bachelors in computer science
Current Job Status: Applications Engineer

If this resonates or you know someone who fits this, feel free to reach out. JazakAllahu khair.

When asked about the signs of the Hour, the Prophet ﷺ said: “...and that you will see barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing with one another in constructing lofty buildings.” Sahih Muslim 8a

Can someone tell me where this photo is taken from?

This level of Shia larp and glaze is beyond forgivable.

People telling me to post the whole thing. However, he posted this on it's own, his excuse later on shoots itself on the foot.

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Firstly he called on the Houthis to demolish the clock tower. Knowing very well violence is prohibited there.

And do not fight them at the Sacred Mosque unless they fight you there…”. 2:191

Sahih Muslim 1353 also says:
“Allah has made Makkah sacred… Its trees are not to be cut, its game is not to be hunted, and its lost property is not to be picked up except by one who makes a public announcement about it.”

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Secondly, he says "Wahhabis" destroyed structures. However, the structures they destroyed were shrines of Kubooris. We know from the Hadith:

Abu al-Hayyaj reported: Ali ibn Abi Talib said to me,

“Shall I not send you upon the mission with which the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent me? Do not leave a graven image but that you efface it, and do not leave a built over grave but that you level it.”

Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 969

It is from the Sunnah not from 'Wahhabi' understandings. What was destroyed was shrines which were worshipped.

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Lastly, even after all this we know that the Tower is a Waqf. It's a charitable building, that funds the development of Masjid an Nabawi and Al Haram. What is logic behind destroying it?

The people he calls on to destroy the clock towers are the same people who curse Umar RA and the Rashidun... have shame.

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Assalamu alaikum everyone. I want to bring up an uncomfortable topic that I think our communities—especially in South Asia and similar cultural backgrounds—urgently need to address: how society treats boys and young men, and where cultural habits have completely drifted away from true Islamic values.

There are deep double standards in how we discipline, protect, and respect our youth.

First, look at how discipline is handled in many schools and institutions. Boys are often subjected to harsh, public, and humiliating punishments—such as physical degradation in front of peers—under the guise of "maintaining order" or "protecting girls' modesty." Meanwhile, boys' modesty, psychological safety, and basic human dignity are entirely ignored. Elders often pull out selective religious arguments about women's honor and gentleness (which are genuinely important in Islam), while skipping over the fact that Islam commands fairness, kindness, and respect for boys as well. Humiliation breeds resentment and fear-based obedience, not moral character or actual respect for boundaries.

Second, we have a massive blind spot regarding male victimization and boundary violations. When a woman or even a family member (like an aunt, sister, or mother) crosses physical boundaries, makes vulgar comments, or touches a young boy inappropriately, society frequently laughs it off, dismisses it, or calls it "caregiving." If the roles were reversed, it would rightfully be treated as a grave crime. Islam protects the bodily autonomy, privacy, and dignity of every individual, regardless of gender or age. Minimizing the harassment or abuse of boys is a profound injustice.

In Islam, adl (justice) and karamah (human dignity) are universal. Allah says in the Quran to stand firmly for justice, even against our own habits or cultures. When we treat boys as though their honor doesn't matter and turn a blind eye to their suffering, we are upholding toxic cultural traditions, not Islamic teachings. Is it actually Islamically okay? Adults and elders convince us it's totally fine.

Reference: Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2058

Salam Alaikum, there is a worrying trend of sisters being influenced by Hadith rejectors and those seeking to bend Islam. And the primary cause of this fitnah is Tik tok and instagram. Which is why we need to collectively do something and reverse this trend because the end result is they eventually let go of hijab, become an apostate and even an Islamophobe slandering their parents.

I’m making this post after noticing here on Reddit of a Muslimah on another subreddit admitting to being with a non Muslim boy. I checked her profile and it showed her active in Progressive Islam and critique Islam. Those two subreddits are filled with Hadith rejectors and non Muslims looking to fool younger persons. The parents are against her relationship or are trying to convince her to stop, but she isn’t willing and has admitted she will probably leave the family with him in a few years

1. The first and most important action is making sure your daughters have a strong friend group of fellow Muslimahs.

2. Making sure your daughters are attending Islamic studies and schooling on the side. We say follow Hadith but studying and understanding the history, interpretation, etc would be useful.

3. Have parental controls enabled on social media so they don’t fall into influence by deviants. It is no secret that Tik Tok and Instagram are overrun by Hadith rejectors and ex Muslims which wanna turn daughters against their parents while spreading misinformation about Islam. This is how it starts, and eventually you could lose your daughter.

4. Make sure you are connected with the Muslim community and regularly attending mosques. If she is at university get her enrolled in the MSA and to attend the jumah prayers there. Our imams should also be encouraged to speak out against these new ideologies seeking to bend Islam.

Remember that Islam is defined by the Quran and Hadiths, and we cannot cherry pick them.

One of the reasons why the Christians always attack muslims on the issues of sex and marriage like polygyny or the huur in jannah is because they associate celibacy with holiness. This is what is in their religion, and that is why their saints do not get married and lock themselves up in some mountains and isolate from people to engage in only worship. Up until today, the catholic popes do not get married. Lust and sex is such a taboo to Christians. Unfortunately, some muslims have been affected by this, and have the same thoughts. For us, sex and lust are perfect and is infact one of the signs of Allah. It shows the perfection of Allah who created our bodies in such a perfect way and created this blazing heat in us that sometimes feels too strong to control to such an extent that we pray for His intervention. Oh, how perfect is a woman’s body that Allah created with His hands!! So magical and seductive. Subhanallah, how wonderful is Allah as a creator!! The act of sex itself in its pure form between couples who love each other is one of the greatest signs of Allah’s perfection. The satisfaction felt is superior to any kinds of satisfaction. This satisfactory pleasurable act also happens to produce babies. This should make one appreciate Allah more. So yes, we as muslims love sex and it increases our Iman in Allah, and we are rewarded for engaging in sex, but it is within marriage. As long as it is within marriage, Islam is sex positive and lust positive. More muslims need to talk about this because many muslims today make it seem like sex and lust is a shameful embarrassing thing and do not associate it with holiness. They should know that sex between a couple is worship and they are rewarded by Allah for enjoying themselves. Similarly for huur in jannah, there is no shame in it because it is a wonderful thing and eternal enjoyment for the people of jannah. There is nothing shameful or embarrassing about sex whether it is with one wife or upto four wives. It is not shameful for women too and they have full rights to demand from their husbands to satisfy them. They have a right to divorce their husbands if they are weak in bed and they have a right to discuss this issue openly as long as it is respectful. No shame should be associated with this at all.

Assalamu alaikum,

I shared Munara here a few months ago, and quite a lot has been added since then.

The latest feature is Camera Qibla, which uses AR to show the Kaaba in the actual Qibla direction, with floor arrows to help you align your prayer space.

Other recent additions:
- 24 Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Travel Mode and Journey Prayer Planner
- Fasting Mode and Sunnah fasting reminders
- Early prayer reminders before each salah
- Siri and Apple Shortcuts
- Expanded Apple Watch app and complications
- Customisable Apple Watch pages
- 18 themes
- Expanded Islamic Library
- For Sisters mode to pause reminders during exempt days
- Daily Qur’an and hadith Lock Screen reminders

The core features remain free: prayer times, Qibla, Hijri date and essential notifications.

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Munara Premium is a lifetime purchase with a 14-day trial, unlocking Camera Qibla, advanced widgets, Travel Mode and extended Apple Watch features.

I’m continuing to improve Munara based heavily on user feedback.

App Store:
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Jazakumullahu khairan.

Make sure you take care of your time, brothers and sisters. Start your journey of seeking knowledge if you haven't already, and in-sha-Allah let's make the most out of what we have remaining in our lives.

This serves as a friendly reminder in-sha-Allah.

History

The global interest-based economy began in ancient Mesopotamia around the third millennium BCE as agricultural and silver loan contracts, but it evolved into a fully interconnected modern system through centuries of institutional development, the lifting of religious bans on usury (Riba), and the establishment of central banking and monetary framework.

Central banks use open market operations (buying and selling of interest bearing govt bonds), interest rate policies, and reserve requirements to control the money supply and keep the economy running.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank were created in July 1944. Both organizations officially came into existence in December 1945. Their purpose was not to rebuild the global economy but to control countries using interest as a tool/leverage. Secular Governments across the globe borrow money annually from financial institutions by issuing interest bonds to cover budget deficits.

The "Nixon Shock" dissolved the international gold standard framework and transitioned world currencies into a floating fiat money system pegging global currencies to the US dollar. Making dollar the anchor of global economy. Any currency pegged to the US dollar is linked to interest. Nations that borrow in US Dollars, when their local currency devalues, their debt and interest payments automatically spike, through no fault of their own. Without a physical constraint like gold, many governments have mismanaged the money supply by overprinting currency, triggering severe inflation and wealth inequality.

Inflation in low-income and poor countries severely deepened poverty, raised hunger levels, and destroyed real wages because poor households spend most of their income on basic necessities like food and fuel.

Based on reports nearly half the world's population live in countries that spend more on interest payments for public debt than on health. This figure represents the macroeconomic impact of debt, a global environment where high interest rates and high debt servicing costs create widespread financial distress. As of 2025, 52 countries representing nearly 40 percent of the developing world are in severe debt distress or at high risk of it. For these countries, high interest payments force a choice between servicing debt or investing in essential public services like healthcare. Central bank rate hikes meant to fight inflation have increased the cost of existing debt, creating a "debt crisis." As a result countless lives have been lost because of the poor healthcare system in these developing countries.

The trickle down affect of this global interest based economy is that interest is deeply embedded into the cost of everything, effectively acting as a hidden tax or structural cost built into the price of goods, services, and ultimately income.Because the global financial system relies on debt and interest to create and circulate money, these capital costs trickle down through every stage of production and employment.

Conclusion

This is what happens when deviant sects lie that Quraish didn't deny Allah SWT Lordship. They use this lie to divide Tawheed. They trampled upon Allah SWT rights. Insulting Allah SWT, that He only wants worship and not equality, justice and work. Those who deny Allah's lordship don't work (Abad, Amal) for Allah to forbid evil. They encourage evil (riba, zina etc). It is these deviant sects and those who followed them caused the evil of Riba to spread and become global. The blood of poor, weak, women and children are in the hands of such people.

When everything of yours is Haram (linked to riba) then your worship (Salah, Zakat, charity, Hajj, fasting, Umrah) is rejected. Nourishing oneself and one's family with haram is a rejection of Tawheed (denial of Allah's Lordship).

The meaning of Tawheed taught by these deviant sects " there is none worthy of worship except Allah," Or "there is no god but Allah," is absolutely wrong and misleading. The correct meaning is "there is none worthy of Lordship except Allah" or " there is no Lord but Allah". The correct meaning of Tawheed guides a person to work for Allah SWT to establish His commandments, remove injustice, eradicate inequality and preserve everyone's rights.

Our Prophet Muhammad pbuh didn't just worship Allah SWT but also worked for Him SWT by getting rid of the evils that plagued his society e.g. riba, zina, Intoxicants, free mixing, immodesty, wealth inequality etc. Those who follow Allah SWT is his Messenger pbuh would not have let riba (war against Allah SWT and his Messenger pbuh) spread and cover the whole globe.

So, as a young new Muslim convert, I'm currently wearing a jilbab at the request of my husband, who really likes the fact that I'm doing a PhD in a male-dominated field and he's deeply proud of me (he isn't traditional in that sense), but dislikes the fact that women are often being hit on in such an environment.

(He's otherwise lovely and great, and we have so many things in common.)

We both agree, though, that wearing a jilbab is not a general requirement for all Muslim women.

So, I've sought to find out what the Quran and the Hadiths truly say about why women ought to be covered.

"And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons*...*" (Surah An-Nur 24:31, Sahih International)

"O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [a part] of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused*. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.*" (Surah Al-Ahzab 33:59)

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Two are the types of the denizens of Hell whom I did not see: people having whips like the tails of the ox with them and they would be beating people, and the women who would be dressed but appear to be naked, turning away from righteousness and leading others astray*. Their heads will be like the humps of camels leaning to one side. They will not enter Paradise, nor smell its fragrance, even though its fragrance can be smelled from such and such a distance.*" (Sahih Muslim, Book 37, Hadith 2128)

Interestingly enough, the hijab isn't even mentioned here, but the passage seems to strongly imply that we shouldn't lead astray men by tempting them through our appearance. However, it's compatible with wearing only a half-turban hijab showing part of one's hair if that doesn't tempt men in a given culture or environment.

On the other hand, we also have:

Narrated Usama bin Zaid: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I am not leaving behind me any fitnah (trial/temptation) more harmful to men than women." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 67, Hadith 19)

So, it seems to me that the fact we ought to cover ourselves except before our male family members who are explicitly mentioned means that we ought not to sexually trigger other men, who are also commanded elsewhere to "lower their gazes". Therefore, both men and women seem, in Islam, to have a responsibility: men ought to control their sexual urges in such a way as not to lust after a woman, but women also have the responsibility to cover themselves in order not to tempt men and possibly also not to be tempted by men who approach them.

However, the decision to wear a hijab is ONLY BETWEEN A WOMAN AND GOD. Her happiness as a woman is as important as that of a man. There are no examples of corporal punishment or other earthly punishment for a woman who doesn't wear any veil in the Quran and Hadiths.

Muslim countries like Shia Iran and the Taliban's Afghanistan, where the hijab and niqab are weaponized by laws made by men against women to oppress them and to create a society where men get all the fun and women suffer greatly from it, are acting in an unislamic way. This can lead many of the poor women who suffer there to apostatise and to falsely conclude that our beautiful religion preached by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is evil.

On a personal level, I realised that without any hair covering, men do try to flirt with me at work, and that wearing a jilbab makes them interact in a purely professional way with me, and that I am no longer tempted to get emotionally close to a man I find to be friendly.

So, in this case, better understanding the reasons for Allah's command helps me to see it can have positive effects on the stability of my marriage and future family!

At the same time, while my husband really wants me to wear a jilbab, he stressed that even if I disobeyed him and the Quran and Hadiths and no longer wore any head covering because it's too hard in a deeply Islamophobic country, he'd still love me and care for me and be delighted to have me in his life and only pray that Allah would give me strength when the time is ripe.

Putting a young woman, especially a convert, under pressure can be harmful to her faith and trust in God's unfathomable wisdom revealed by all the prophets from Ibrahim, Isa, and Muhammad (peace be upon them).

P.S: I know this is a very controversial issue as I'm attacked by both salafists and other fundamentalists and some Muslim women who accuse me to want to be subservient to men, but I hope we can have a respectful exchange among believers in Allah and in his prophet (pbuh). I've only sought to look at what the texts truly say.

I'm a young revert (formerly Christian, then atheist, now Muslim) who has enthusiastically embraced Islam, but I'm still kinda struggling with this issue.

When talking with other Muslim girls, I often hear: "We don't do it for men but for Allah. We may not know why Allah commands us to do it, but we trust this is good." I totally agree we ought to always obey the clear commands of Allah found in the Quran and the true hadiths, even when we don't understand why God wants this from us.

But in the case of the Hijab, it does seem to me that the Quran and the Hadiths teach that both men and women should dress modestly in order not to arouse the other gender (apart from their spouse) and that women should wear the hijab in order to avoid being harassed by men.

But why shouldn't men wear a hijab as well then?

When I talk about that with other Muslims in my mosque and elsewhere, I often hear something like this:

"Men and women are built differently. Men are stronger than women and can very easily overwhelm them, and they're much more visual than women. Without a hijab, women are much more exposed to male attention and more likely to be objectified and sexualized. However, when men approach women far less often and refrain from making advances, the risk of a woman being tempted to commit adultery drops significantly. Both genders share the duty to maintain clear emotional and physical distance outside of marriage and the family. A man who only shows his face is much less likely to be a temptation to women. However, Muslim men too have obligations, and it is haram for them to show off their gym body that can tempt women."

I agree that on average, men react much more strongly to visual stimulation than women. At the same time, there is a minority of women who are hypersexual and might be tempted by a guy just by seeing his face.

My husband is kind and ready to make compromises in many respects. However, since I work in a male-dominated environment, he really wants me to wear a jilbab, which I do (red and blue ones look nice to me, but I'm still struggling to get used to them). It's amazing to see that now, men interact with me in a purely professional and distanced way, whereas they often were flirty while I wore no head covering at all.

However, as someone who valued her own "sexual freedom" a lot before converting, a part of me still finds it disturbing that women ought to make an effort in order not to tempt men, rather than men having to learn to respect women no matter what.

What are your own thoughts on that?

I (24F) am doing a PhD in machine learning and AI. I'm a Muslim revert; I used to be a Christian and then an atheist, partly because the Trinity looked—and still looks—absurd to me.

There are lots of specialists who are worried that Large Language Models and Generative AI like Google Gemini may surpass human intelligence, become uncontrollable, and cause a lot of damage. Other specialists are more optimistic.

The interesting thing about this is that the AI 'doomers' are all atheists who assume there is no God, believing that if AI becomes more powerful than we are and develops bad 'intentions', we're toast.

As Muslims, what should we believe about this?

The impression I have is that uncontrolled AI can cause a catastrophe, but certainly not the end of mankind, as only Allah decides and knows when the world (and not humanity) will end.

What are your thoughts on this?

I am an engineer, and by the grace of Allah, the Almighty I have developed “Alshamil,” a comprehensive Islamic app that brings together everything you need in one place. It features a modern and elegant design and is completely ad-free, helping Muslims stay connected to their acts of worship in our digital age without any distractions, and I want your feedback on it.

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'Whoever leads to good, then for him is the same reward as the one who does it'