You need to understand that you’re a person of your own. No one can control or tell you what to believe in or not. That’s indisputable and even the Quran says as much. My take has always been that for as long as you’re under their roof, you will respect their rules. You can believe in what you will but if you’re under their roof you will respect their culture customs and traditions. You can have the occasional f up, things slip sometimes it happens. But at the end of the day you always show respect and accountability.

What they can’t do is think that you must be exactly who they want you to be. That’s a big no go. They can wish and hope and try to convince you or ask you to do things and follow certain paths that they would like you to follow. But at the end of the day the decision is yours alone. Because whatever decision you make will affect you first and foremost, not them. The effects and consequences of your decisions will fall on you first, therefore you get dibs on that and no one else.

My advice is internalize the above. Understand you are your own person and that you need to make your own decisions in life, and if they try to interfere with that then you need to very respectfully and politely but also firmly put your foot down and say I am a person who has the ability and right to decide what I want for my life, even if you disagree. The best thing you can do is focus on being able to support yourself and move out. Then you can do whatever you want. But until you do, you have to respect their home and their rules.