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I Need Help To Become A Good Muslim Girl Again (6)

I’m a 12 year old Muslim female. I am really badly behaved, I am rude to my parents and I’m having doubts about whether Islam is ‘right’. I hate myself for this and I don’t want to be like this anymore. I need major help.

I want to marry a Hindu convert to Islam but my parents will not allow it (9)

Assalamu-alaikum, I belong to a Muslim family and I am 24 yrs old. My parents are looking for a guy to get me married. I have a friend whom I’ve known since my college days which is for around 4 years. He is a non Muslim.

If a woman does not wear a burqa, is she bad? (5)

In my family, most of the women wear the burqa. When I was a teenager, they suddenly started forcing me to wear the burqa. They went to everyone’s house and said that I haven’t started wearing so I’m bad. I did not want to be forced into anything, I wished to accept it with my heart.

I ruined my life by committing zinaa and I think I was molested as a child (2)

Both of my parents are full time working. My dad has to spend most of his time out of station and mom in the hospital, I would be left with my aunt and cousins. One day, a man came to my house when I was about 5 or 6yrs old, he came to marry my another aunt who can not speak or hear. I don’t know why I remember this, I don’t know if im hallucinating or imaginning it…but I remember it like yesterday.

Don’t want to divorce my Muslim Husband but he degrades me (5)

I asked him if he was sure he wanted to marry a non Muslim female and he kept telling me yes, he loves and wants me; but since we got married he insults and degrades me, calls me stupid constantly. He avoids me for days. He says women are emotional and irrational. And me loving him is my stupid fault.

I feel like ending my life! What should I do? (10)

I never wanted to have sex before my marriage……!!!!!! I wanted to keep this as a gift of God for my husband!!! Now I don’t have anything to give and share!!! I hate myself!!! HOW COULD I DO SUCH MISTAKES!!! I HATE MYSELF!!! I want to die!!!

Need help with my name (1)

My name is Keith V Harris and I am a recent convert to Islam. I have found that my name is of Celtic origin which is pagan and I wish to change it. I was wondering if Yusef Abd al Nur Harris or just Abdul Nur Harris was preferable.

confusing istikhara dream (3)

i have seen that both of us travelling in a car and looked outside the window. he is on one window and i m on other. and one rose between us. kindly tell me the meaning of it.

I’m jealous, what can I do about it? (14)

I have a problem with jealousy and it is destroying my marriage. I’m married and I’m masha allah good-looking and educated. I’m very happy with my husband and we are both practising Muslims. My husband is very handsome and very often, when we are invited to places where non-Muslims are present or women without hijab (sometimes even Muslims), the women stare at him and admire him for his good looks.

Married, pregnant and abandoned by my husband (10)

I know suicide is haram but what should I do, I have this SNAKE baby. I can’t sleep, eat, am a dead body walking around. I dont want to keep this baby, for it has same blood as him. I need answers. Why did this happen, after all we did for him. His name is S.S. from Brooklyn New York. Why did he do this to me? Why did he use me? Ya Allah why? Why? I can’t move on. I can’t.

I’ve increased in deen and my wife hasn’t: now we are arguing (4)

Assalaam Alaikum. I married a non-Muslim woman and we have a 4 year old daughter. When I married her she was a Christian but nominally converted to Islam. At that time I was not very serious about my religion. However, after my daughter was born I have become more religious. I have also been trying to gently nudge my wife towards becoming a more observant Muslim for the last few years.

Can I keep my baby’s name as Mohammed Haroon (1)

Please tell me can I keep my baby name as MOHAMMED HAROON?

Son unable to approach Mother about Marriage with Non-Muslim Friend (6)

I am a Pakistani Muslim who is living in the United States. I met a Christian girl from Colombia whom I’ve become friends with (we are not dating) In the last year, we have become very close and my mother has no problem with us being friends, because I have explained to my friend about my religion and its restrictions.

Converted Muslim girl in relationship with Saudi man but he hasn’t told his family about us (6)

I am an American and converted to Islam about one year ago. I’m a divorced mom and met my “husband” about 6 months ago. We are in a mut’ah marriage which only his brother who lives here and some of his friends here know about.

In on-line intimacy permissible within a marriage? (15)

My husband is away and I miss him. I have spoken to him over the net using video call and done intimate things including self pleasure. Please tell me is it forbidden or not?

He feels like he is being followed (4)

I am writing as someone I know seems to have a problem. For sometime now he has felt like he is being followed and when he turns around no one is there. Over the weekend we took some pictures of his car. When he uploaded them on to the PC and looked over them it seems like there is someone sitting in the car.

I’m a Sunni and I want to marry a Shia girl (4)

I am a 22 years old Sunni Muslim and she is a 20 years old Shia girl and we both are doing bachelors together. I am in love with her and within a year, we created a very strong bond of love within ourselves (nothing physical).

The past keeps coming back to haunt her (5)

I have to ask about my friend…who had been a very very very bad girl since she was 13 and is now 16 but now she has changed ALOT since last year because of this guy who came like an angel in her life as a friend and showed her how wrong she was because he was in love with her but didn’t know about her pathetic past.

he married me urfi and now he hardly comes to see me or call me (5)

salam i am a new muslim and i need advice. i married for 7 months now but its just an urfi marriage coz my husband’s parents did not accept me when my husband told them about me. but still i married him coz i love him so much.

the problem is before we married he made a condition with me that he must to go back to his previous wife. he said it’s for the sake of his son and he told me that he cannot stay with me after that happens, and becoz i love him so much i accepted everything coz he promised me too that he will never change on me. but this not what happening now coz for 2 months now he is showing me that he don’t care anymore about me. i feel it coz he did not come to me he just came after 1 or 2 weeks and he cant even give me a call, he just call me after 4 days or sometimes 1 week.

I dont want to divorce my husband but I am also scared of giving him another chance (17)

I had a nikkah over the phone and had only met my husband after I had the nikkah since he lived in pakistan and I live in the UK. This was an arranged marriage. I had seen his picture and had spoken to him over the phone. Since my parents knew the family so well and my in laws seemed so nice I thought my parents made the right decision

Still in love with wife who has been cheating on me for 10 years (4)

I need your advice please I am feeling very lonely and hurt and don’t know what to do. I am a male age 38 and was married for 10yrs to my wife who had two previous kids in her last marriage when I met her and she told me she had 2 girls aged 6 and 9.