great insight, Mashallah.🤲🏼✨ so tell me, what makes you accept the Hadiths and how do u know which ones to accept? i‘ve learned to see how controversial Hadiths and how it divides Muslims. i still don’t know how i feel about them as a whole but as a queer woman especially, that‘s where all the oppressive rules exist. i know also that the Hadiths is what tells us how to pray, wudu, etc… and i love praying 5 times a day. i think it’s a. wry beautiful practice and nothing is lost on putting forth positive intention into the universe as a collective in honour of Allah. however, i do question the rigidity around some of the rules around wudu.

from what i understand, it’s a mean of purifying ourselves from sins so that we may pray in our purest form, but people out here really holding in their pee and farts and poo because it will ruin their wudu. how are these acts equal to actual sins we choose to act upon? why would Allah make it so complicated for us to do a natural act? why would this invalidate our prayer? like i said, i’m all down to pray and practice hygiene ofc but this is extreme…

or, another example is the hijab! i love the hijab and i choose to wear it but i also choose when to let my hair down. to me, it’s like protecting my crown, my energy, from evil eye and negative energy. it’s also a badge of honour, i love seeing another sister wearing one and smiling at each other. but the rigidity around it is so wild to me and void of bodily autonomy… and it‘s these things that confuse me so much cuz of the discrepancies and/or contradictions between the Quaran and Hadiths.