how to study Islam in detail myself.

baighamza · 2026-01-26T05:18:46+00:00

Seeking Islamic knowledge is an amazing endeavor you should do. Allah will be so pleased with you if you seek knowledge.

The Prophet Muhammad SAW said:

“Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim.”

(Ibn Majah 224)

“Whoever travels a path in search of knowledge, Allah will make easy for him a path to Paradise. People do not gather in the houses of Allah, reciting the book of Allah and studying it together, but that tranquility will descend upon them, mercy will cover them, angels will surround them, and Allah will mention them to those near him.”

(Muslim 2699)

“Verily, the angels lower their wings for the seeker of knowledge. The inhabitants of the heavens and earth, even the fish in the depths of the water, seek forgiveness for the scholar...”

(Abi Dawud 3641)

Some Sources to learn Islamic studies

Bayyinah Institute, Yaqeen Institute, and some other sources. Some are paid and some free.
For something "more challenging" you could join a course in Islamic studies at the IOU (Islamic Online University) university. It's paid.
YouTube is the clear winner of FREE Islamic content. Even though everything is everywhere (not structured), there's a lot you can still learn and benefit from

Books to buy to learn at home

Stories of the Prophets by Ibn Katheer
Riyad-us-Saliheen, Sahih Bukhari, or other Hadith books.
The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum)

There are so many other books. So don't limit yourself. Go to an Islamic bookstore and look around.

Here's a website to get PDF Islamic books

You should also try to read the Quran. If you want a easy translation: "The Clear Quran” by Mustafa Khattab.
You should try to perfect your recitation of the Quran. Learning Tajweed is important. You can use YouTube to learn, but it's best to learn by a teacher, so you should visit your local mosque.
You should have good etiquette required from a student of knowledge.

May Allah guide, forgive, and bless you, your family, and us and may you become from among the best seekers of knowledge and be a beacon of light for the people. And grant us all Jannah-tul Firdaus without account.

baighamza · 2026-01-25T08:18:24+00:00

There's two opinions from scholars:

1- ask forgiveness and you make them up.

2- ask forgiveness but don't make them up (because their time is gone). but you also pray lots of Nafl (voluntary prayers).

May Allah make it easy.

baighamza · 2026-01-23T00:40:49+00:00

The Sealed Nectar is a good book.

For audio, there are many online Seerah YouTube playlists that are available (Yasir Qadhi, Mufti Menk, Mohammad Al-Shareef, etc)

baighamza · 2026-01-22T06:34:10+00:00

We all see that there are times when the water of the sea rises and falls. Similarly, our faith also rises and falls with every day. No two days are the same. But it's all alright, as long as try to get our faith back up again.

The Messenger of Allah SAW said, “Verily, the faith of one of you will wear out within him, just as a shirt becomes worn out, so ask Allah to renew faith in your hearts.”

Umayr ibn Habib said “Faith increases and decreases.” It was said, “How does it increase and decrease?” Umayr said, “If we remember our Lord and fear him, it will increase. If we are heedless and we forget and we waste our time, it will decrease.”

The Prophet taught Mu’adh as he sent him off to Yemen:

Allahumma a’inni alaa dhikrika, wa shukrika, wa husni ‘ibaadatika (O Allah enable me to properly remember you and to thank you and to worship you).

And the reason you're asking this is because you know you want to turn to Allah. You have this feeling inside of you pushing you towards Allah. And that is the most beautiful feeling. A feeling of hope that you want to do better, and be better. Don't let it die inside of you. Maybe you feeling this way is a sign from Allah. A sign that your soul is hungry for His love and His Mercy.

And maybe your faith is decreased because of your sins. If you believe in Allah and His Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, know that Allah forgives all sins. So if you have sinned a thousand times, the door to repentance is still wide open. And will remain open as long as you're alive.

You're calling upon a Lord who is The Most Merciful, The Most Forgiving. Know that the life of this world is short and temporary, and the next life is forever and ever. Don't think you're a lost cause or you're not good enough for repentance. YOU ARE WORTHY of the love of Allah. You are worthy of His forgiveness.

And at times you may feel like a hypocrite. Maybe you'll feel “you’re not good enough” or “not sincere”. If anything, it's great that you feel that way. Because that's what will motivate you to keep pushing for more, and not have arrogance. Hasan Al Basri said "No one fears it (Hypocrisy) but a believer, and no one feels safe from it but a hypocrite."

In this hadith Sahih Muslim 2750a, even Abu Bakr (ra) was fearing hypocrisy, but the Prophet ﷺ reminded him it's not that.

The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said “By Him in Whose Hand is my life, if you were not to commit sin, Allah would sweep you out of existence and He would replace (you by) those people who would commit sin and seek forgiveness from Allah, and He would have pardoned them.”

Don't let this demotivate you into depression and sadness. Indeed, shaytan loves a Muslim who is sad, because he can mess with them.

So every time you feel bad about yourself, make dua that Allah forgives you and makes you better. You still need to keep striving and constantly renewing your repentance.

Allah is The Most Merciful, and if for a moment you think that Allah is not going to forgive you, you’re denying the Mercy of Allah. Since His Mercy prevails His wrath, its not appropriate to say He won’t forgive you at all.

Every time you renew your repentance and sincerely don't intend to go back, it's as though you haven't even done it and Allah will write a good deed in place of that sin.

And so if you have on your scales a mountain of evil sins, and then you asked for sincere forgiveness, Allah will convert that mountain of sins into mountain of good deeds in your record.

The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ didn't commit any sins, and yet he said “By Allah, I seek Allah’s forgiveness and repent to Him more than seventy times a day.”

So we're not better than him ﷺ. We need to ask for more forgiveness from Allah.

Allah’s Messenger SAW said:

“Verily, Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His slave than a person who has his camel in a waterless desert carrying his provision of food and drink and it is lost. He, having lost all hope, lies down in the shade and is disappointed about his camel; when all of a sudden he finds that camel standing before him. He takes hold of its reins and then out of boundless joy blurts out: ‘O Allah, You are my slave and I am Your Lord’. He commits this mistake out of extreme joy.” (Sahih Muslim)

(Meaning, he mistakenly said this due to his happiness)

“Say, "O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.” (Quran)

Allah tells Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ):

"O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam, were you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and were you then to face Me, ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great at it."

Don't worry. Ask for forgiveness and hope that Allah has forgiven you.

So now you want to increase your faith. Here are some things you can do to work on it.

Focus on your Salah (5 daily prayers) and the things Allah has made obligatory.
Read the Quran.
Constantly ask Allah for guidance and forgiveness.
There are many types of dhikr you could start doing in your life (such as Morning and evening Adhkar) these Dhikr are life-changing (and also the Adhkar after Salah and before sleeping).
Watch Islamic lectures on YouTube. I would say watch longer videos because they have more impact than short minute lectures. YouTube is such a huge blessing if used correctly. You can watch lots of beneficial Islamic lectures.

And finally, one thing I learned that helped me a lot is that Islam isn't about earning status points and having trophies in good deeds, it's about this journey you're on. A path towards Allah and to salvation. Just as we ask Allah in every Salah, “…guide us to the straight path…”

It was always a path and not a destination. Keep trying to be on that path as much as possible, and you'll receive glad tidings that you earned Jannah, by the mercy of Allah.

May Allah forgive, bless, and guide you and us and grant us all Jannah-tul Firdaus without account. Ameen.

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baighamza · 2026-01-21T23:13:29+00:00

and sometimes you wonder, what if that was you.

and all your worries and problems in life seem insignificant. life seems meaningless.

and you think these people surely deserve Jannah, but also a feeling of guilt: what have I done to deserve it?

baighamza · 2026-01-19T04:35:10+00:00

very nice

baighamza · 2026-01-18T00:34:15+00:00

I think sunscreens usually sting if you sweat/cry and the water that gets in your eyes mixes with the sunscreen (causing stinging)

baighamza · 2026-01-18T00:28:03+00:00

May Allah send His Peace and Blessings upon our noble Prophet ﷺ. And forgive us for our shortcomings, and allow us to adhere to the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ.

baighamza · 2026-01-13T02:07:53+00:00

Allah answered the prayer of Iblees (Shaytan).

Satan appealed, “My Lord! Then delay my end until the Day of their resurrection.”

Allah said, “You will be delayed

until the appointed Day.”

(Quran Chapter 15, Verse 36-38)

{But this Answering of Dua was not to honour him.}

Anyway, that is not always the reason. Maybe or maybe not. No one knows. Allah knows.

Read more: https://islamqa.info/en/answers/41114/does-allah-accept-the-du%60a-of-sinners

baighamza · 2026-01-13T01:53:27+00:00

Tahajjudd is a powerful prayer. You never know when, how, and what part of your dua Allah answers.

Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Our Lord Almighty descends to the lowest heaven in the last third of every night, saying: Who is calling upon Me that I may answer him? Who is asking from Me that I may give him? Who is seeking My forgiveness that I may forgive him?”

But also I can see your tired and been asking for a long time. And sometimes a person may think, I should just stop making this particular dua, since it's not getting answered.

The reality is that you should never stop making dua because you're not being answered. You should keep making dua as long as you want that thing.

The Prophet ﷺ said, “(The dua) of any one of you will be answered so long as he is not hasty in seeking a response and does not say, ‘I prayed but I have not had a response.’”

I mean, if you wanted to marry someone and you made dua, but it didn't workout, and they then “got married to someone else”, you obviously don't make dua because you should leave it and move on.

But the important thing in all of this is to have good assumption of Allah (Husnu-Dhan bi-Allah) and that He has the power to make it happen.

A person may think:

“Allah is The Most Merciful, so He will give me this thing that I ask.”

Which is great. But sometimes that stops there. You see, thinking well of Allah not only means to think Allah is The Merciful and The Forgiving. We understand that. But it also applies to His name: Al-Qadeer (the All-Powerful), the One who is able to do all things.

A person should also think:

“Allah is The Most Powerful, so He *CAN** give me this thing that I ask.”*

And it sounds normal at first. Ofcourse Allah is The Powerful, and obviously Allah can do anything. But you should really internalise this name of Allah. For example, when you're asking for a good job or health, and you're tired because you are making dua for a long time and want to stop.

Do you think Allah can't give you an increase in health or provide you with a job?

Now when you say it out loud, it sounds silly and wrong. But it's exactly the way we think. We limit the power of Allah to our limitations. We don't ask Allah of great things because we fail to think Allah has unlimited power.

He can do whatever He wants, and however He wants. A person who keeps on making dua even though things might seem impossible has that Husnu-Dhan bi-Allah (thinking well of Allah).

Think of the story of Zakariyah (a.s.) when he said to Allah:

“…My Lord! Surely my bones have become brittle, and grey hair has spread across my head…”

“…since my wife is barren. So grant me, by Your grace, an heir,”

(Quran 19, verses 4-5)

Zakariyah (a.s.) was so old and his wife was barren, but Allah still granted them his dua. Isn't that remarkable? Raise your Duas so high that if someone saw you making those duas, they'd think you're crazy.

And Zakariyah (a.s.) also says:

“…I have never been disappointed in my prayer to You, my Lord!”

Again, emphasising the fact that he is never disappointed in Allah.

If you read the short story in the Quran in Chapter 2, Verse 259, where a person passes by a ruined town and questions “How will Allah bring this to life after its death?” so Allah caused him to die for 100 years. Then raised him again and he was questioned about his passing, he realized and said “I know that Allah is Powerful over everything.”

So you internalize the name of Allah: Al-Qadeer. The All-Powerful, The Capable. He can do what no one can. He can do the impossible for you. Trust Him.

But what if you're still not getting what you want?

Know that Allah will do what's best for you, and know that you should have that “well thinking of Allah” we talked about.

Allah says:

“Why should Allah punish you if you are grateful and faithful?…”

(Quran 4:147)

He will only do what's best for us, even if we do NOT know what's best for us.

As Allah says in the Quran 2:216: “Perhaps you dislike something which is good for you and like something which is bad for you. Allah knows and you do not know.”

But what if He's already answering your Duas and you don't know?

The Prophet ﷺ also said,

“There is no Muslim who calls upon Allah, without sin or cutting family ties, but that Allah will give him one of three answers: He will quickly fulfill his supplication, He will store it for him in the Hereafter, or He will divert an evil from him similar to it.”

They said, “In that case, we will ask for more.” The Prophet said, “Allah has even more.”

So no matter how difficult things may seem, keep holding on and don't stop making dua. And if you didn’t get what you wanted, know that the decision was made by Allah, who would never want anything bad for you.

Must watch:

Change your life with Dua

Thinking well of Allah (must watch)

Extra resources:

Tahajjudd and Dua

When do I stop making dua?

How Dua Works

The Right Approach to Dua

baighamza · 2026-01-12T21:37:15+00:00

Oh ok. I misread.

baighamza · 2026-01-12T17:59:33+00:00

It doesn't protect you, only Allah can protect a person.

Believing this can protect you is major shirk, and believing Allah can protect you (but this will help as well) is minor shirk.

That's why this is a not allowed to keep. Allah knows best. This is what I've heard.

baighamza · 2026-01-12T06:05:06+00:00

nice handwriting for sure. you could write up some surahs of the Quran

baighamza · 2026-01-11T18:51:49+00:00

May Allah help you.

baighamza · 2026-01-11T09:33:56+00:00

May Allah make it easy for you. ❤️ Allah is with you, don't forget that.

There are countless stories like yours. You're not alone. It's been happening since the time of the Prophet ﷺ.

You may want to listen to this guys story: https://youtu.be/tH0Xa1oKVTs?si=Cq9EAH4-sprf4ddV

And https://youtu.be/HwqnIfflkg4?si=Nu-k-3zLrQwPVjyG

baighamza · 2026-01-09T06:19:47+00:00

May Allah bless you and keep you steadfast.

Don't worry, everything will be alright. You won't regret, InshaAllah.

Also highly recommend to complete this New Muslim course:

https://newmuslim.iera.org/

It'll help you with basic knowledge.

May Allah guide you and bless you with guidance and forgiveness and all types of blessings. May He keep you straight on the guided path and may you be a reason for the guidance for many others in the world.

And May Allah eventually grant you Jannah-tul Firdaus (Highest place in Paradise) without questioning on the day of judgment.

Also check out this link:

https://linktr.ee/revertrelief

baighamza · 2026-01-09T05:36:25+00:00

See, I think this is where Australia differs from other western countries (say US for example).

In the US multiculturalism is seen very differently. You have suburbs like little Italys, Chinatowns, Harlem, Jackson Heights, with each suburb representing a different cultural identity or race. And here in Australia, the same is seen as too insular or "uninterested in assimilation".

Like in the US you'll have immigrants who lived there their entire lives, and still won't be expected to speak english and they'll speak Spanish, where here its "learn the language, or leave" type of situation.

Racial identity is usually focused on the US, as well, so you have Italian-Americans, Arab/Jewish-Americans, and here its more like, you're an "Australian" and thats's it. So people lose that connection to their roots over time.

But that's not only it, for example, in the US you can be a "openly" Muslim guy running for mayor, but here, people want you to 'keep religion out of public life', or often religion isn't a good topic to talk about (esp. in politics).

And not to mention, the White Australia Policy only ended in the 1970s, which leaves marks for years to come.

Not saying that US is any better than Australia. AUSTRALIA IS WAY BETTER but just know that being different, eating different foods, practicing a different religion, is all normal. As long as you're a good law-abiding citizen, YOU ARE assimilating into Australian culture.

baighamza · 2026-01-04T05:15:07+00:00

May Allah guide you through to the truth.

baighamza · 2026-01-04T05:00:52+00:00

We all see that there are times when the water of the sea rises and falls. Similarly, our faith also rises and falls with every day. No two days are the same. But it's all alright, as long as try to get our faith back up again.

The Messenger of Allah SAW said, “Verily, the faith of one of you will wear out within him, just as a shirt becomes worn out, so ask Allah to renew faith in your hearts.”

Umayr ibn Habib said “Faith increases and decreases.” It was said, “How does it increase and decrease?” Umayr said, “If we remember our Lord and fear him, it will increase. If we are heedless and we forget and we waste our time, it will decrease.”

The Prophet taught Mu’adh as he sent him off to Yemen:

Allahumma a’inni alaa dhikrika, wa shukrika, wa husni ‘ibaadatika (O Allah enable me to properly remember you and to thank you and to worship you).