Many people may have different opinions when it comes to the Roman Catholic Church, but most agree that the Pope was a good man.

A man who had a more modernist and progressive approach to many things, spoke many times against the crimes Israel was committing against the Palesnians, visited many muslim leaders and wanted to bring equality among different people, communities and religions in all parts of the world.

May Allah (SWT) grant great Men and Women like him a place in Jannah.

Looking for progressive scholars etc that I can listen to. Are there any YouTube channels of that nature?

It just doesn’t make sense why a woman’s fast can become invalid when they start menstruating, even just ten minutes before the sun sets. If ritual impurity was the point, how come someone in a state of Janabah can still fast, even if they were to abstain from doing ghusl for a week?

Honestly this is so confusing, I feel like the more I read about islam the more I realize how most restrictions are set by the cultural aspect.

My question is coming from a previous post I saw about how nowhere in the Quran does it say that we have to wear a hijab to pray, which??? That’s insane?? How is this not more broadly known.

I see so much misinformation and people giving up hope on the religion bcz of misogynistic claims it’s honestly exhausting.

Female dress code is extremely strict to the point you have to literally cover yourself from head to toe, loose clothing, not allowed to be beautiful except for your husband, like you are some kind of clown who does a special performance for a vip, like you are his personal property. To get to the point of the title, men on the other hand don't have all these oppressive rules. I am tired of the sugar coating.

Navel till knee IS NOT MODESTY. They are not required to cover fully, let alone the head, but their body. This rule is half naked. This is one step before showing your genitals, how is that modesty? So men wearing shorts to cover the bare minimum, the standard through the whole world, their penis, is now modesty?

I am so tired of pretending like the men in the rest of the world are walking down the streets, go to to work and socializing with their penis out, but islam made the amazing change for men to wear clothes to cover at least their penis. Are we supposed to be thankful?

The rest of the world has a hard time relating to us because our communities have an optics and aesthetics problem.

Muslims have completely abandoned any sense of aesthetics and that is, in my opinion, the main reason it is so hard for the rest of the world to take a stance in our favor and see us as their equal. It is obvious to me that muslim societies have almost unanimously given up on beauty.

For the life of me I will never understand why to this day, in western countries, we still see muslim men with scrawny unwashed faces, untrimmed beards, a qamis so long it's practically wiping the floor, and a dirty pair of airmax walking around in a society where everyone is groomed, shaved, smiling and well dressed.

I will never understand why so many (not all! But many) mosques smell like feet and sweat the second you enter, and why it is so hard for people to regularly wash and scrub those carpets.

I will never understand why women complain about strangers avoiding them and system

I see a lot of Muslims wishing they could move to a Muslim country thinking it would magically mean sharia.

It's weird since they idolize the UAE and why?

It's a slave state and you are materialistic

Now that we’re in the last 10 days of Ramadan, I’ve been thinking a lot about why we have to pray taraweeh and qiyam—and prayer in general—in Arabic, especially since most Muslims don’t understand what they’re listening to or saying.

Yes, we could learn Arabic, but realistically, most people don’t have the time or resources to do this. Also, it’s much easier to learn for native Arab speakers even if fusha/quranic Arabic is not the same as modern Arabic. And most Muslims aren’t Arab—so why was everything revealed in a language that most Muslims don’t speak? People say Arabic expresses things like no other language, but isn’t that also because Allah made it that way? If He wanted, he could’ve made a language like Urdu, for example, which most Muslims today would understand.

Others say we pray in Arabic to preserve the Quran. But preserving the original text and only praying in Arabic aren’t necessarily the same thing. You can still accept that the Arabic Quran is the original while pra

I’m sorry, I’m sure this has been asked before but I am really struggling with the concept of slavery, and female slaves specifically and the idea of them being free to be used by their masters.

The whole idea of capturing another nations women, enslaving them and then being free to use them sexually (regardless of consent? And if they’re married or virgins etc.)

I have never discussed this with anyone, but I did one day ask my husband if there was another religion out there that believed it could take over our land, kill or enslave you - and enslave me & our daughters and have their way with us theoretically, wouldn’t you hate them. He just nodded and I guess could see where I was coming from but had no answer for me, and never discussed this again.

Quran is against enslaving others - update! sorry for the wall of text guys I didn't mean to and plz check the comment thread

Im just updating my slavery post I made 2 month ago and exceprt Melwood786 words into as he provided lot academia sources:

Throughout the years Islam has been misunderstood & misinterpretation by Muslims and non-Muslims believing quran advocates slavery. However, that is false if you see many verses Quran said free them(24:33, 90:8-13, 2:177, 90:60, 4:92, 58:3) treat them well(4:36), and you only have sex with them through marriage(4:25, 24:32, 70:30).

heck, this verse settled the debate once and for all on slavery( in other words enslaving):

In the Quran, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and demanded that he free all the slaves (44:18-21). When Pharaoh refused, Moses called those who practiced slavery criminals (44:22). Enslaving people was the explicit reason given in the Quran for God punishing the Pharaoh and the Egyptians (23:47-48). These stories in the

A disturbing trend among Muslims today is defining Islam solely in opposition to an imagined “West.” This imagined "West" isn't based on factual evidence or rigorous academic analysis but rather a loosely defined backdrop of secular liberal hedonism. Consequently, anything perceived as "Islamic" is automatically defined as whatever opposes this imaginary "West," and vice versa. For instance, because "the West" recognizes marital rape as a serious crime, some Muslims instinctively conclude that Islam—being supposedly opposite—must inherently deny marital rape, making such a crime impossible by definition, despite overwhelming Islamic ethical teachings that strongly condemn harm, coercion, and injustice.

Yet paradoxically, while Muslims position Islam as fundamentally opposed to this imagined "West," they readily align themselves with certain Western thinkers whenever these thinkers critique internal "liberal feminist leftist" culture. This explains the enthusiasm some Muslims show for

Every time I’m on social media and it’s a Christian majority comment section or niche , whenever they comment on anything about Muslims it all becomes over simplified and explained through racist Islamophobia. I’ve realized that during the Gaza genocide , a lot of Christian accounts have been not only fervently Zionist , but also using Islamophobia to explain away the situation in Palestine. I’ve seen this now with Syria too. With the recent massacres of Syria’s minorities , there have been a number of Christians explaining away Syria’s situation through using Islamophobia rather than talking about the geopolitical situation on the ground , foreign involvement , the oppression of the dictatorships et cetera. It’s as though the actual politics on the ground mean nothing to these people and for these Christian Islamophobes any and everything that happens in the so called « Muslim world » (even if non Muslims are doing the actions) is only explained away as « this is what Islam commands (

I 23f have recently started gymnastics classes. Ive been jealous of how people can push their bodies to their physical limits and just think gymnastics is really cool. I don't however like the typical female leotard, and think it's wayyyy too revealing compared to the (typical) male uniform. I can't even understand how we managed to convince girls that wearing leotards and having to worry about shaving was better than full body suits. Anyways

I just feel sad about not being able to share in my excitement about this new hobby with the rest of my family because they don't think gymnastics is a girl's sport, especially not a woman's sport. Id begged to be put in gymnastics but wa always met with "a respectable girl doesn't do gymnastics" or something along those lines.

Especially during Ramadan I don't feel I can bring this up and it's just sad that even when wearing 'as modest clothing as possible', gymnastics is still too sexualised in our community.

I want to enjoy the limits of

Demonizing Islam

I'm like so over it.

I hate to see that more and more people start to demonize Islam as a dangerous religion.

They take Quran verses out of context and start spreading misinformation without even checking the facts.

They see some garbage on the TV about terrorism and immediately point the finger at the whole religion, as if a normal Muslim person living in a country is a threat for everyone around them.

It has come to the point of which I'm afraid to even say that I'm a Muslim.

In my country, there is an upsurge of right-wing parties.

Even the media seems to be extremely one sided.

For the past few months or so, all I've been hearing on the media has been

"A Muslim has done XYZ"

or

"The suspect was screaming 'Allahu Akbar'"

and so on.

Sometimes when I'm outside I start to feel uneasy because some people look at me and my negative thoughts start to creep in:

"Are they maybe judging me because I look like a Muslim? Because I look like a foreign

I’m not even joking. Every day before taraweeh he gives a little 5 minute talk about a verse he read or a story he’s researched.

Yesterday he came out with this. He said that before the non Muslims were open and direct with stopping us practice our religion. Now they are more “covert” so they use “hidden tactics” like stopping you praying Salah.

Bro what 😂😂😂😂

On International Women’s Day, there was a post that went viral on Instagram, about how Islam honors women with hadith, and Quraan verses that prove that.

This is an example of hadith mentioned in the post:

Islam honours Women:

• A mother is a gateway to paradise, a daughter is a path to mercy, and a wife is a garment of love
• "The best of you are those who are best to their women" ~ Prophet Muhammed
• “Whoever has three daughters, cares for them, and is patient with them, will enter Paradise"~ Prophet Muhammed
• "The best of you are those who are best to their wives"~ Prophet Muhammed

Notice how there is a pattern?

All of these are extremely indirect and focus on what men get rewarded when they treat women well.

This is not fitting the context at all, in my opinion.

I have also heard this talk so much whenever the notion of feminism in Islam is brought up, and I just think that it’s the wrong take and wrong arguments.

I’m actually starting to hate this perspective that is c