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02 Sep 2024 14:37

Is "faking it until you make it" not allowed, e.g. for job interview

Prior to my reversion, I found jobs interview relatively okay, dare I say easy. Essentially, you need to pander to your audience/employer so that they feel you will be obedient and do the job. You might "tailor" your CV for the role, I don't mean lie, I mean pick certain parts of your experience to highlight compared to other parts etc. Now that I'm a revert and I find being straightforward and honest so important, e.g. the Prophet pbuh was known as so truthful and I want to follow that. I wonder though in a job interview, is it allowed to effectively "fake it until you make it?". E.g. I might not be so enthusiastic about a particular role, but I should behave that way so that I'm seen as employable etc.? It feels kind of wrong, but I don't know if I'm just overthinking. I wonder if there are any Islamic teachings about whether it's okay to in some respects focus on the ends not the means. Jzk

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02 Sep 2024 07:37

How to unseal my heart and believe in Allah again?

The past few months were hectic for me, I started getting a lot of bad thoughts and doubts that overwhelmed me to the point where I couldn't concentrate on anything. I was a firm believer and my love for islam was so great and nothing compared to how much love I felt for it and I always prayed and did dhikr and was good to my parents even though I thought I was doing very little. I was told the doubts were from shaytan and that I needed to ignore them and I wish I had listened to my family who were trying to help me overcome them but I was so blinded and couldn't get a grip on myself, I was stubborn for not listening and I regret turning away from my deen and I was such a headache to my family and especially my mom. I ruined my relationship with Allah and ruined my relationship with my parents and friends and I feel so depressed and lonely. I know leaving islam is the worst thing you can do and I regret doing that, as soon as I stopped fighting those thoughts I felt my heart changed drastically and I panicked because I don't want to die in this state, I just want to believe in Allah again and never go down this path, I keep praying salah and asking Allah to guide me so I can become a true believer again but nothing is working. It feels like my heart is sealed and I just want to unseal it so I can be guided but nothing I do is making it go away. I can only blame myself for taking this path but I truly want to be guided and taste the sweetness of iman again, everywhere it says that someone like me won't be guided and I know it's my fault but I just want another chance to believe and I'll never take islam for granted or turn away from it, is it ever possible for me to get the iman that I want?

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02 Sep 2024 05:37

Is it required to ask Allah SWT for things?

Can I not ask for things and let Allah SWT decide everything for me, leaving it all in His hands?

I thought I remember hearing something saying it was haram but can’t find anything about it now.

So can I keep asking for Jannah and to leave it in His hands, as He is the best of deciders?



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02 Sep 2024 01:37

Being too concerned with the worldly life rather than the hereafter…
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01 Sep 2024 23:37

Our salvation is in the night
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01 Sep 2024 20:37

War commandments but with sources
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01 Sep 2024 16:37

How do you stop your mind from wandering during salah?


Salaam,

This is just a question on how people focus during salah?
No matter how hard I try my mind genuinely just won’t stop thinking about random things such as my day, what im going to do, my worries in life etc and i’m really starting to worry and overthink that none of my prayers are being accepted. Any advice on how to stop this?

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01 Sep 2024 14:37

Is there a definition of terrorism that the United States and it allies don’t fall under?

I’ve been having a lot of debates lately with Islamophobes and they always struggle to give a definition of terrorism that wouldn’t include actions the United States and its allies under it, it’s truly fascinating to me how the media uses this word only when the perpetrator is Muslim no matter what the contexts are and they use the words mentally ill of the perpetrator is not, I don’t know if this post will be even allowed on this page I am simply curious to see what you think.

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01 Sep 2024 11:37

Update being Muslim

I have been praying my salah x 5 prayers, and I have improved so much. Doing fair was hard to do at the start of my journey, but it's gotten easier, and now I have reminders to remind me when it is time to pray. Helped a lot.

I am reading the Quran; before reading, I am always doing wudu and then doing a small prayer before reading the Holy Quran.

I love the feeling of having a clean mind and praying to Allah for forgiveness.

I am currently in India for vacation; I went to the Masjid here and attended Friday's Jummah prayer.

It was amazing the Imam greeted me in my language/Arabic. I felt peace.☪️❤️🕋

However, I did face loads of backlash from people, like my brothers, and family, who were saying why are you up at 5am to pray? Are you ok? And etc.

That really made me angry. However I did pray to Allah SWT for helping me to be ka ind aand contender and not let Shaitan get me distracted from lies.

That helped me to become smarter and control myself.

I thank Allah SWT every day.

I have been texted by my mentors and I am asking if I will keep being Muslim as new Muslims break away after facing Trials. I replied to them, saying I would continue as it was the best decision that I had made


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01 Sep 2024 08:37

Alhamdulillah

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01 Sep 2024 04:37

Do not say inshallah in your duas!
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01 Sep 2024 00:37

Muslims not returning Salam

Assalam Al Aykum brothers and sisters.
I am a revert with many tattoos.
I have begun to make a point to give Salam to any Muslims I come across in my daily life,
But half the time my brothers don’t return my Salam.
Sometimes they say hello and others they outright ignore it. Even at the masjid, sometimes I will give Salam and brothers will say “hello”.
Are my tattoos the reason they are not returning Salam because they don’t think I’m Muslim?
I cover my awrah, keep my head covered although not a kufi. I grow my beard.
Should I begin wearing things that are more obviously Muslim so my brothers can return Salam and know I am Muslim?

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31 Aug 2024 22:37

SHAYTAN WANTS TO STOP YOU FROM WATCHING THIS VIDEO!!

You guys know these types of videos "Shaytan will be happy if you don't watch this" "Allah chose you to find this video" "Allah wants you to watch this". And honestly it's kinda disgusting. Now I'm not talking about the content of the video itself since it can actually turn out super useful. But most of the time these videos talk about things literally everyone knows. It's just so clickbaity. I don't complain when an average non-religious useless video has a clickbaity title because the people making these videos are low-lives what can we expect from them? But when it comes to Islamic videos it feels like people are religiously blackmailing you to force you to watch this.

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31 Aug 2024 20:37

If a Christian ever claims that the Messenger (SAW) had no eyewitnesses, show him or her this.

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31 Aug 2024 15:37

Don't curse the dead - Hadith
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02 Sep 2024 13:37

Fajr >>>
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02 Sep 2024 06:37

Persistence and steadfastness.
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02 Sep 2024 03:37

A very scary hadith. Make sure you never miss your prayers!
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02 Sep 2024 00:37

How to tell my mom that I am Muslim

My mom is a shunned Jehovas witness. She believes in God being Jehova but she hasn’t came back to her religion after being shunned because she doesn’t feel ready to change her ways and go back. I converted to Islam recently and my mom is one of those people that although she doesn’t practice her religion she thinks she has the right to tell other whether if their religion is correct or not and thinks that any other faith is witchcraft. I don’t think she knows about Islam but if she does then it’s the same wrong idea that almost everyone has.
I am almost 100% sure that if I come out as a Muslim she will not respect me.

I am suffering so much with religious ocd and waswas my mom eats pork and touches impurities and then goes and touches me which makes me so anxious this has caused problems between us, she also complains about why I don’t eat pork (I lied and said it makes me sick), why I don’t like touching and being licked by dogs (we have many dogs at home), why am I always changing my clothes and locking myself in a room (this is because I pray) and basically my worship is compromised. I tried talking to her about Islam one time but I noticed she started to get heated saying “Jehova is gods name” so I stopped and didn’t tell her.

I know that the best way is dawah through actions but I am also starting to get depressed because my mom never appreciates what I do.
She only sees the things that I fail to do or that I don’t do and never sees my efforts. Anything I do is enough to please her so that doesn’t work she says I’m disrespectful because when she touches me and she touched an impurity I freak out and I move unconsciously and she says I’m sassy (in a bad way) and I’ve explained her many times that I’m sorry but it was unconsciously I can’t control it so now she has a bad image of me specially since i joined Islam because I’m so scared of impurities and she is always touching impurities so I avoid her touching me and now I’m a bad daughter I can’t I want to end my life I want to run

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01 Sep 2024 21:37

ALLAH IS ONE
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01 Sep 2024 17:37

Muslims of Urban France! How easy is it to pray and fast and to go to jummah especially those who are working 9-5? Is islamophobia much less than pre covid era? Do Non Muslims there still demean you?
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01 Sep 2024 15:37

This made me tear up

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01 Sep 2024 13:37

Islam will prevail.

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01 Sep 2024 10:37

Always gotta do it
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01 Sep 2024 07:37

Getting started with Quran, is this good?
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01 Sep 2024 03:37

How to love Allah SWT more than your spouse/children?

Salaam Alaikum, i was pondering over this thought recently:

Out of all the things you can do in real life, nothing has come close to the feeling of love, its strange how can this vast life, offer so little compared to that.




And soonly after i stumbled upon this verse subhan Allah.


قُلْ إِن كَانَ ءَابَآؤُكُمْ وَأَبْنَآؤُكُمْ وَإِخْوَٰنُكُمْ وَأَزْوَٰجُكُمْ وَعَشِيرَتُكُمْ وَأَمْوَٰلٌ ٱقْتَرَفْتُمُوهَا وَتِجَـٰرَةٌۭ تَخْشَوْنَ كَسَادَهَا وَمَسَـٰكِنُ تَرْضَوْنَهَآ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْكُم مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِۦ وَجِهَادٍۢ فِى سَبِيلِهِۦ فَتَرَبَّصُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِىَ ٱللَّهُ بِأَمْرِهِۦ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِى ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱلْفَـٰسِقِينَ ٢٤

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “If your parents and children and siblings and spouses and extended family and the wealth you have acquired and the trade you fear will decline and the homes you cherish—˹if all these˺ are more beloved to you than Allah and His Messenger and struggling in His Way, then wait until Allah brings about His Will. Allah does not guide the rebellious people.”


Which got me thinking, i know it SHOULD be possible to love Allah SWT more than the love you'd experience for a wife or a child. And experience such intensity, like how you would feel being around a loved one, and how you would want to be in their presence always. If not more, to Allah is the greatest example.


Another re-affirming verse is:

(Allah Alone is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs for us.) (Qur'an 3: 173)

Allah SWT should be suffecient, over a wife or a husband or a child. I have no clue how to reach that stage, or whom to ask, youtube is giving me no leads either, so if there is anyone who reached that stage of love/ or know of a way to get to that point, i would appreciate it.



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31 Aug 2024 23:37

"They say 'we are but reformers'. Unquestionably, it is they who are the corrupters, but they perceive it not"
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31 Aug 2024 21:37

Brothers and sisters listen with Your hearts

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31 Aug 2024 16:37

Let him look
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31 Aug 2024 14:37

Just saw this and loved sharing it!
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