Islamic marriage advice and family advice

Tag Archive for ‘Culture Clash’

I married a Hindu who prays to Islam

He and his family have a section in one room to pray to hindu gods but then they have another section in the next room to pray to islam every morning. He keeps saying he is Hindu, but I don’t know if he’s telling the truth?

Parents forced me into nikah

Can my family disown me for not marrying someone of their choice? Do these buzurgs or spiritual people really exist? How are they predicting the future? Or someone’s marriage?

How can I die peacefully?

I am 15 years old… I need an alternative to suicide. I am suffering.

Is it ever going to be alright?

I got engaged to my boyfriend 10 months ago, but we are recently facing a lot of problems in fact the same problems we had prior to our engagement.

We want to marry but his family do not agree

I pray I do marry him because I really do care for him.

Are all Muslim men this childish and insensitive?

Are all Muslims this insensitive as he seems to be?

My parents will disown me if I don’t divorce my husband

My mother refused to arrange a wedding party because my husband was not from the same country and she felt it was an embarrassment… 2 years later they have told me I either divorce him or forget that they are my parents.

Getting married to someone from a different culture

Please tell me if I should go ahead with proposing for marriage through her parents, even though my parents right now won’t accept it? I have spent all my life praying to Allah to bless me with a Muslimah wife like her.

My wife’s jealousy is stressing me out

My wife is Moroccan, while I’m half-Moroccan and half-Spanish. I love my wife, but her constant jealousy is draining. Is it just culture clash?

I am in love but am I being used?

I believe people should be together with the end goal of possible marriage, NOT casually dating merely for the satisfaction of desires. I don’t want him using me because he thinks I’m some new doll to play with in the meantime.