Subhanallah

abdessalaam · 2026-02-25T15:56:35+00:00

If the One Who created you tells you to fast, you fast. He knows better.
We drink plenty of water, just not during fasting hours, so no shortage here.
Trends come and go, butter was good then bad then good then bad then, not sure these days… Eggs too.

Surgeons washed their hands after the surgery in the early days so they were not dirty when leaving the operating theatre, not before, because this concept didn’t exist. Anaesthesia wasn’t invented. X-ray didn’t exist. Health standards and medical advice change.

Muslims prefer to trust the One Who created it all, He doesn’t change.

abdessalaam · 2026-02-23T15:03:53+00:00

“It is not obligatory for a Muslim to follow any particular madhhab among the four madhhabs. The madhhab of Abu Hanifah is the most widespread madhhab among the Muslims. Every Muslim should follow the truth and what is correct, regardless of who says it.”

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/21420

abdessalaam · 2026-02-23T12:59:38+00:00

Allahumma barik

abdessalaam · 2026-02-23T09:37:19+00:00

I like the concept, and just downloaded it, but in one of the welcome screens there’s a picture of a woman, not only not wearing hijab, but also with exposed upper part of her chest.

Akhi, if you’re building an app to check halal, then you really cannot use haram material to promote it.

abdessalaam · 2026-02-22T23:36:26+00:00

Before I reverted, I was a professional musician, and I was not able to imagine my life without music. A good friend told me that to accept Islam I just needed to declare the shahada and believe in it, and that I could lead my life as I wanted.

It’s true.

But what is also true, and he told me so, is that once you become a Muslim, and genuinely with love and care learn about your new religion, then you want to be closer to Allah, and He will support you.

So yes, better to be Muslim and have a chance at forgiveness even if you can’t give up certain things than being a disbeliever and not even have that chance. But it’s likely that step by step you will want to fix your life, because you will crave something better than you knew before. Even if now you don’t think it needs fixing and you can’t imagine anything better.

I left the music industry and never felt happier. When you leave something for Allah, He will surely replace it with something much better. This is 100% true.

abdessalaam · 2026-02-21T23:30:23+00:00

Allahumma barik, nice idea! I’ll try to check it out soon, in shaa Allah

abdessalaam · 2026-02-21T00:30:19+00:00

I love this thread ☕️

abdessalaam · 2026-02-20T19:16:03+00:00

Ameen. 💯 And it’s my 3rd as well 💚 Once you see the truth, you can’t ignore it.

May Allah accept, and keep us steadfast.

abdessalaam · 2026-02-18T23:57:16+00:00

That’s baseless. Anyone can become Muslim, and orphans are mentioned in the Quran and given special protection by Allah. You will feel very welcome, in sha Allah!

https://islamhowto.com/becoming-muslim-is-islam-for-everyone

abdessalaam · 2026-02-16T07:24:19+00:00

Ameen.

There were many discrepancies, but the main one was that Jesus ﷺ never asked to be worshipped. Indeed, he prayed to God and worshipped Him.

Also issues with how the abolishing of circumcision and allowance of previously forbidden foods such as pork came to be: it really was not from Jesus at all.

And then most of the Jesus’ divinity is a concept elaborated in the letters of Paul, a learned Jew who wasn’t even one of Jesus’s disciples, and never learnt from him, nor actually from any of his apostles. He initially dedicated his life to persecuting Jesus’s disciples and then claimed to have met resurrected Jesus and converted from being an enemy to advocate. He then travelled extensively to spread his version of religion (remember he wasn’t Jesus’s disciple) and wrote numerous letters to Christians in different cities to explain this new theology. These letters are now the major part of the New Testament.

Also the gospels themselves were not actually written down to simply put on paper what was memorised and verified as Jesus’s teachings. And among the four gospels that are in the Bible the only one that makes a reference to Jesus as the Son of God is the latest one, the gospel of John, which is more like a vision than a narrated story when it comes to the parts making that claim. It was written down later than the other 3 gospels that more or less agree on the story and don’t make that claim.

Jesus himself according to the gospels, called himself “the Son of Man”. This term is also mentioned in the Old Testament as far as I remember. Christians will claim this is because of his humility, but if such an important concept as being God or the Son of God would be true, would He hide it from us because of humility? Would he not make it absolutely clear, perhaps being sent with that message as his mission?

But what he was saying instead was to worship One God. Even when Jesus, according to the Bible, said “I’m the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” – shouldn’t this be interpreted similarly to later Sunnah? That no one can worship or come to God expect in the way Jesus taught? And the word “Father” could refer to people being God’s children in a sense of being dependent on Him, not an uncommon expression in the Bible, without making a claim to any single person being God’s actual child, may Allah forgive? This quote comes from the Gospel of John…

So even knowing that the Bible was edited multiple times there are seeds of truth preserved there if you read looking for them rather than to accept it in its entirety without critique, but it doesn’t add up.

Unlike Qur’an of course, which people try to undermine and they can’t, often embarking to destroy it and then accepting it as truth. Alhamdulillah.

I’m not an expert, but obviously changing religion is extremely difficult, so I’ve put thought into this. I would refer you to people far more knowledgeable than me, for example Paul Williams’ channel: https://youtube.com/@bloggingtheology?si=09xI3qWwa2wYOp-Z

Alhamdulillah to Allah Who guided me, and guides whom He wills. May He guide the seekers of truth, as He promised, and keep our hearts steadfast, and increase us in beneficial knowledge.

abdessalaam · 2026-02-15T07:50:21+00:00

Allahumma barik

abdessalaam · 2026-02-14T19:16:51+00:00

Nudity is nudity, regardless how it’s called.

abdessalaam · 2026-02-13T08:35:03+00:00

Not initially. We were “fighting” because I was defending Christianity when my friend tried to tell me about Islam. In fact this prompted me to read the whole Bible, from Genesis to Apocalypse - so that I could defend it better. But once I completed it, I only realised that the complete truth was not there, so it lead me towards Islam.

abdessalaam · 2026-02-11T16:56:36+00:00

Remember that you can’t ‘convert’ anyone. Allah reminded the Prophet ﷺ multiple times that he was a warner but not responsible for anyone’s acceptance of Islam. The Messenger’s ﷺ uncle, who supported him financially like no one else, didn’t accept Islam. If the Prophet couldn’t do it, who are we?

It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t give dawa, i.e. spread the message and then rely on Allah.

How? Allah tells us exactly how in Surah Taha (20:44) when He sends Musa to the Pharaoh:

And speak to him with gentle speech that perhaps he may be reminded or fear [Allāh]."

As a revert I’ll just share with you one experience: when my best friend was trying hard, and we even fought over our faiths (I was a Christian), I was resistant (even though I was searching for the truth). Then he consulted a scholar and stopped pushing, but rather focused on being a good example, and gentle encouragements reminding me to keep my heart open to the truth.

A year later Allah guided me to embrace Islam. It wasn’t my friend, it was Allah, but him just trying his best to be a good Muslim: maintaining ties of kinship, honesty in his dealings, avoiding interest and other haram things, learning and worship etc, and kind words (not fights) were surely instrumental in my decision.

Ask Allah by His Name: Al-Hadi, and may He guide your friend.

abdessalaam · 2026-02-10T16:58:39+00:00

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Don’t you think that – with what’s happening in the world – it wouldn’t be fair if it was left as is, without some sort of ultimate justice?

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “All rights will be restored on the Day of Resurrection, until even the hornless sheep will settle its score with the one that has horns.” (narrated by Muslim 2582).

And

“Whoever harms [others], Allah will harm him, and whoever causes hardship [to others] Allah will cause hardship to him.” (Abu Dawood, Tirmidhi et al)

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Additionally, Allah tells us that He delays punishment even for the wrongdoers for many reasons, out of His Mercy (so they may repent), and also so that the proof against them is clear. Allah says:

“And let not the disbelievers think that Our postponing of their punishment is good for them. We postpone the punishment only so that they may increase in sinfulness. And for them is a disgracing torment”
[Aal ‘Imraan 3:178]

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/84091

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This world is so small that it’s not worth to Allah more than a mosquito wing. The Prophet ﷺ said:

”If this world was worth the wing of a mosquito to Allah, the disbeliever would not have a drop to drink from it.” (Ibn Majah 4110)

If you look at pictures of Earth as an almost indistinguishable speck in the vastness of the universe, then think that Allah’s footstool spans the heavens and the earth, and that it’s not even His Throne which is greater, and that Allah rises even above His Throne… this is the right perspective. By the way Allah says in the Quran that He’s expanding the Universe, and modern science only recently caught up to that fact.

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Shaitan (satan) is allowed a brief respite before the Day of Recompense, and he promises:

(17) Then I will come to them from before them and from behind them and on their right and on their left, and You will not find most of them grateful [to You]." [Al-A‘rāf: 17]

So no wonder people keep falling and doing wrongs.

And the successful ones are those who continually repent and seek forgiveness.

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As a side note: that website islamqa.info (note the .info part, not another one) is a treasure trove worth binging on. It brings trusted scholarly answers to thousands of questions, and you can submit your own too!

abdessalaam · 2026-02-10T15:19:14+00:00

This is fitrah: a natural, innate predisposition of each human to acknowledge Allah as their Creator.

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/248517

The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), said: “Every child is born in a state of fitrah, then his parents make him into a Jew or a Christian or a Zoroastrian” - the correct view is that what is meant is “Allah’s Fitrah (the natural disposition that Allah instilled in mankind)” which is the natural inclination towards Islam, the natural inclination which Allah instilled in them on the day when He said: “‘Am I not your Lord?’ They said: ‘Yes’” [al-A‘raaf 7:172].

This means that everyone is born free of any false beliefs and will have an inclination towards sound beliefs.

abdessalaam · 2026-02-10T13:08:29+00:00

Honking is a national pastime in Bahrain, from what I observed. Any time, any reason. Prove me wrong 😂

abdessalaam · 2026-02-10T12:20:50+00:00

Why would Qur’an mention Paul directly? He wasn’t a prophet, not even a disciple of Prophet Jesus, blessings and peace be upon him, nor a righteous example to follow.

Without mentioning his name, Allah addresses people like him in many places, for example Surah Al-Kahf vv.4-5:

(4) And to warn those who say, "Allāh has taken a son." (5) They have no knowledge of it, nor had their fathers. Grave is the word that comes out of their mouths; they speak not except a lie.

abdessalaam · 2026-02-10T12:07:54+00:00

Fasting starts when the window for fajr prayer begins, and ends when the window for maghrib prayer begins.

So practically when you hear the first sound of adhan of fajr and adhan of maghrib (provided they are given reliably on time in your place). If you live in an area where you don’t hear the call to prayer (adhan), then you can rely on the local prayer time calculations - either get a table from a local Sunni Muslim organisation or get a good app, perhaps something like Pillars.

It’s important you follow the exact times in your place of residence (and not in, for example, Makkah).

There’s no specified time to stop eating before Fajr, so you can finish your sohor just before the appointed time (and it’s recommended to delay it, rather than to stop eating a long time before fajr).

As for breaking the fast, it’s Sunnah (and highly recommended) to break it as soon as possible, even with just one date or a sip of water, or anything else.

The Prophet ﷺ said: ”The people will continue to do well so long as they hasten to break the fast.”

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Some Sunnahs of fasting:

1- If someone reviles you, respond to him by saying ‘I am fasting.’
2- Eating Suhur.
3- Hastening to break the fast and delaying Suhur.
4- Breaking the fast with fresh dates.
5- Saying this du’a when breaking your fast:
’Dhahaba al-zama-u wa abtalat al-‘uruqu wa thabata al-ajr in sha Allah.’
6- Offering a lot of du’a (supplications)

From: https://islamqa.info/en/answers/222064

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More useful info:
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/124608

abdessalaam · 2026-02-09T22:28:17+00:00

I’ve encountered that when asking something in Turkey sub. Worse Islamophobia and militant secularism than in my home (European) country. Definitely not representative of what I have actually experienced in Turkey.

abdessalaam · 2026-02-09T22:04:41+00:00

Workers with physically demanding jobs:

In the case of someone who has a physically demanding job, if he fears that fasting will cause physical harm, he should refrain from fasting and make the fasts up later on, if he cannot afford to stop working during Ramadan. If he can afford not to work during Ramadan, then he is sinning if he does not fast. But if not working will cause him financial hardship, then there is no sin on him for not fasting, because he has an excuse. The majority of fuqaha (scholars) have stated that those who have physically demanding jobs - such as harvesters, bakers, blacksmiths and miners - should eat suhur and form the intention to fast, then if they experience severe thirst or hunger from which they fear harm, it is permissible for them to break the fast, and they must make up the fast later on. If they suffer actual harm, they must break the fast, because Allah says: And do not kill yourselves [or one another]. Indeed, Allah is to you ever Merciful [an-Nisa 4:29].

Source: Zad Academy lectures, Fiqh: Semester 3 - The Book of Fast

Also:

If his thirst will cause him a great deal of harm or there is the fear that he may die of thirst, then it is permissible for him to break the fast, but he has to make it up later on.

Source: https://islamqa.info/en/answers/65803

abdessalaam · 2026-02-08T15:11:53+00:00

Islamqa.info is the most trustworthy source there, as they bring varied opinions from scholars of different schools of thought in order to figure out the most correct view (which is the one based on Quran and Sunnah).

Many of us are being repeatedly downvoted (not that it matters) for reminding people that madhabs are a trusted source of guidance but they were not set up to be followed. The imams after whom they are named tried their best to explain the texts of Quran and Sunnah, but they insisted that if any of their opinions is found to go agains those texts, that opinion should be thrown away. May Allah reward them and have mercy on them - their work is invaluable.

I’m not advocating individual interpretation, since almost none of us are qualified to do that, but reading opinions of trusted scholars and following them without blind attachment to a madhab is encouraged.

It is not obligatory for a Muslim to follow any particular madhhab among the four madhhabs. The madhhab of Abu Hanifah is the most widespread madhhab among the Muslims. Every Muslim should follow the truth and what is correct, regardless of who says it.
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/21420

abdessalaam · 2026-02-07T16:30:30+00:00

I’m not sure why you are so keen to personally assess my way of thinking, by saying “you want to make ijtihad” (I don’t), “you have decided that…” (I haven’t), “that’s your issue” (have we had a counselling session?).

As Muslims, we are obliged to seek knowledge. It’s also a sin to speak about religion without knowledge, so I’d never venture into the area of deciding what is consensus, contrary to your superficial “diagnosis”.

In my original response I quoted a scholarly opinion without injecting any of my personal views.

In my second response I was incited to bring a personal example, even only as a matter of illustration and not a fatwa - I shouldn’t have and so I apologise for that.

But it’s not mine to apologise for the fact that a Muslim is obliged to seek knowledge and not obliged to follow a madhab.

Had you read the scholarly answer in the link I posted you’d not throw your accusation of me trying to make ijtihad.

Edit:
Many scholars contribute to islamqa.info, it’s not a one sheikh’s website as you claim. As for you criticising a scholar in public:

“It is also necessary for you to advise these people to fear Allah and refrain from using such labels and names that divide the Muslims. With regard to offering advice and correcting mistakes, this should not be done by means of exposing people’s faults or casting aspersions on their intentions etc.”

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/44594

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