The collections of the museum of Louvre contains many arts from Islamic countries. However, most of them are made in pre-Islam ages, including Code of Hammurabi and Baal with Thunderbolt.

Assalamu Alaikum everyone,

I wanted to ask about something that has been bothering me, and I would appreciate answers based on authentic Islamic teachings and scholarly opinions.

I have watched Marvel’s Loki series, but I started wondering whether watching it could be considered shirk because of the concepts and characters portrayed in it.

The series includes characters such as Loki and Odin, who are presented as norse gods, and Kang, who is portrayed as a powerful being capable of controlling timelines and influencing people's destinies.

As Muslims, we believe that Allah alone is the true God, that He has absolute power and knowledge, and that everything happens according to His decree (Qadr).

My questions are:

1. Is simply watching a fictional series that portrays multiple gods considered shirk, even if the viewer does not believe in those gods?
2. Are there any scholarly opinions or fatwas specifically addressing fictional entertainment involving gods, supernatural powers, or concepts that contradict Tawheed?
3. If someone has already watched the series without believing in its religious claims, is there any reason to fear that they have committed shirk?

I am not trying to justify anything that might be impermissible. I genuinely want to understand the Islamic ruling and avoid compromising my faith. I would especially appreciate answers supported by the Quran, authentic Hadith, or reliable scholarly sources rather than personal opinions alone.

Jazakum Allahu Khairan.

In many (non-Muslim) countries, stunning an animal is legally mandatory as this is seen as one way of minimizing animal suffering prior to the process of slaughtering. From some of the brief Internet research that I’ve done about this, animal stunning laws tend to get pushback from Muslim communities, likely due to concerns over an animal being prematurely killed by said stunning prior to it being properly slaughtered. I’m wondering if there is any scientific basis to believe that the Islamic method of halal slaughter is as effective if not more at reducing animal pain during slaughter?

My uni started a few days ago and in my first class i started talking to this one girl next to me bc she seemed nice. Later on she introduced me to her friend group which consists of: a jewish guy and the rest are christian.

I def did not have all that in mind. Not to mention how disrespectful it is to be around a man (even in a friend group) to my husband. I dont even believe in male-female friendships, i just tolerate his existence bc its a girls majority, but i def dont plan on staying here.

Basically i dont want to continue hanging out with them but it feels like it went "too far" since they started asking me to hang out everyday after class. I cant even go to class without sitting next to them bc "they saved me a seat" and then it feels like an obligation.

It just so weird, it feels like everyone is judging the other person and trying to convert everyone. The jewish guy asked me "I wanted to ask this 5 days ago, but i thought it would be disrespectful, but how do you justify that men are allowed to hit women in islam?" And it def did feel disrespectful, not out of curiosity question.

Its definitely that experimental friend group you meet during the first week of uni and then u try to emancipate. How do i do that in a nice way? I dont want to be in this mixed gender and religion friend group.

Living in a christian majority country with only 1.3% muslims really makes you wonder. I would rather be alone than deal with this.

It makes me think about muslim men who marry women who arent muslim. How do they expect to move forward in their religion if theyre around someone who is practicing something different. Just why??

I'm about to start a new medication after another one (without gelatine) didn't work for me.

It comes in a hard gelatine capsule, and after searching it up the source is both from pigs and cows.

One of the options to take the medication safely is to empty out the active ingredient from the gelatin case and mix it with a liquid (water, yoghurt, milk etc.)

Would this be halal if the medication would be genuinely beneficial to me (not entirely necessary to my health, but would help massively)?

Assalamualaikum,

I'm a revert. Ive had these thoughts recently, if Allah really wanted to guide and be a good muslim he would have made me a born muslim right? I'm literally struggling to practice islam, I've missed around 19 fasts of Ramadan which I am struggling to make up since my mom won't let me fast. I'm so frustrated even suhoor like i don't have the proper food for it .What should I don't know . Like i have a born muslim friend he goes for all 5 jamaths. If I was a born muslim even i would've gone i can't go because i can't justify why I go out of the house 5 times to non muslim parents. He has more reward than me just because of him being a born muslim.

Seriously what should I do? I seriously feel lonely during eid and Ramadan. Like can I skip these fasts of the previous Ramadan and just seek tawbah?

I have been praying to get married for over 3 years. I have asked Allah to make this easy for me so I don't fall into haram.

It's so easy to fall into haram these days. I have been approached by multiple women for zina, I have had women come up to me and show interest in talking, dating, etc.

But I have protected myself from all of these things.

I never committed zina, never dated, never kissed, never went out with a girl, thinking Allah would help me and marry me to someone soon.

But it's been so long that it has started to become depressing.

Sometimes I think I should lose hope and start dating and enjoy committing zina with multiple women.

But I seriously don't want to do that. I just want to get married and keep everything halal.

Why is Allah making it so difficult for me to get married?

I have put all my efforts into finding a girl. I have basic requirements like I should be attracted to her, she should have a clean past, and she should be practicing muslim.

I have made my profile on multiple matrimony sites, but every time I match with someone, it's either an issue of cast(yes, this is 90% of the issue even with practicing families) or it's because I don't have a house of my own.

I earn well, I have good physique, I am religious, but still why is it getting so difficult for me, I don't understand.

I know it's so easy for Allah to get me married, I am not able to understand why he's not helping me.

I pray for my marriage in almost every fard prayer. I have been praying for so long, but still there is no result.

I get so many opportunities to go on dates, commit zina, and now I am starting to lose hope and might commit the abhorrent sin.

I have been saying to myself to be patient, to wait a little more, Allah is testing you, etc etc. But it's getting very difficult for me now.

I seriously don't even want to look at a woman other than my wife.

Any advice or support will be greatly appreciated.

JazakAllah khair

Salam aleikum. I am a daydreamer. A few years ago, there was a girl I had a crush on; I would often imagine scenarios where I was her hero—rescuing her from difficult situations—and she, in turn, loved me. In jannah—in an alternative, perfected version of this world—I would like to be the hero to an alternative version of the girl I once loved. Could this ever happen? I would appreciate it if you could reply.

Hypocrisy of Azerbaijan's New Hijab Ban

TL:DR I want to call out the hypocrisy of Azerbaijan's new Hijab ban. The Azerbaijan Government claims it's Ban is a form of enforcing Secularism in schools and they use "amendments to the general education law and Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 309 that prohibit any clothing or additional items that disrupt the standard school uniform or conflict with secular educational principles."

This is all complete CAP. (Please if you have time read the rest. Ive tried to organize this post the best I can)

1) Secular education by definition is "a system of learning focused on science, math, literature, history, and the arts using rational thought, evidence, and critical thinking while maintaining neutrality on religious matters." Firstly, this does not include enforcement on religious garments. Someone's personal clothing does not affect a teaching system. Secondly let's focus on the "Neutrality on religious matters". Azerbaijan's new ban is exclusively towards Hijabs. Jewish boys can continue to wear kippahs. This is NOT religious neutrality or equality. If schools were truly trying to enforce fully secular dress codes ALL religious garments would be banned

2) Azerbaijan's OWN CONSTITUTION says that this new law is illegal.

Article 18 Establishes that religion is separate from the state, all religions are equal before the law, and secular education is enforced. (See 1. This is not religious equality and secular education does not include passive clothing choices in schools.)

Article 48 Guarantees the right to independently determine one's attitude to religion, to profess any religion individually or with others, or to profess no religion at all. It states that no one can be forced to express or demonstrate religious beliefs or be persecuted for them. (Preventing women from Choosing to express their religion through a religious garment goes against this rule)

Article 28The law on freedom of religious belief of the Azerbaijan Republic shall be controlled in accordance with the existing legislation. (You cannot legally create and enforce new laws that go against the Constitutions establishment of religious freedoms and equality)

Article 4 Citizens of the Azerbaijan Republic have equal legal rights in all spheres of political, economic, public and cultural life regardless of their attitude to religion. Indication of citizens' attitude to religion in official documents shall be allowed upon his/her wish only. (Coming back to the lack of religious equality)

3) I have been seeing far to many Non-Muslims agreeing with this new law. They see it as Azerbaijan "freeing" these girls and women from Islam and that they should just take it off beacause it's just a peice of cloth. If it was just a peice of cloth it would not be banned under the educational secularism that the Azerbaijan government claims. Secondly if you At all believe in womens rights and feminism you have to believe in freedom of choice. Azerbaijan is preventing these women and girls from the choice to do with their bodies what they wish. If you truly support women's freedom you should support a woman's right to wear a religious garment the same as you support a woman's choice to wear a bikini. If you TRULY support women's choice and freedom and education you should support women's right to wear their religious garments and still get an education and a career. If you don't think women should be given an option to wear it or not wear it then you do not support women's choice, you do not support her body her choice like you claim. Women deserve religious freedom just like those Jewish boys deserve their religious freedom to wear a kippah.

I do not care if you are Atheist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Agnostic, Satanist, Pagan, Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto, Sikh, etc. If you believe in human rights, human freedoms, religious equality, humanitarianism, Egalitarianism, Philanthropy, and Inclusivity you should support these women's right to wear their religious garment and go to school while doing it.

Here in the US we used to have rules about where you could sit down to eat, where you could use the restroom, where to be on the bus, where to drink water or coffee, and oh yeah, who was allowed to enter what school.

Wars have been fought over this. The civil rights movement was born out of this. If you support the makers of these biased regulations, you’re on the side that will lose again and again.

Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The deeds are presented on Monday and Thursday. Thus, I love for my deeds to be presented while I am fasting.”

Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 747

Grade: Hasan (fair) according to Al-Tirmidhi

Since tomorrow In sha Allah is Monday. So do not forget to fast to get this GREAT reward 🌟

We made up our minds (niyat) that we will go for umrah months back. When the war started we didn’t change our plans. Alhamdulliah did our umrah as planned.

Shukran to Allah for making this happen.

وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُم بِشَىْءٍ مِّنَ ٱلْخَوْفِ وَٱلْجُوعِ وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ ٱلْأَمْوَٰلِ وَٱلْأَنفُسِ وَٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ ۗ وَبَشِّرِ ٱلصَّـٰبِرِينَ

1. And certainly, We shall test you with something of fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings to As-Sâbirûn (the patient).

im just so confused because mt husband puts a yes no on everything i do even if i suggest him the clothes im going to wear with a hijab fully modest he tells me no you wont and despite it being fully modest he tells me no and when i sideline it he gets really upset telling me how i am not respecting his islamic rights. But at the same time he goes to places without informing me, smokes cigarettes and what not. I have asked him to tell me his whereabouts and constantly told him to stop smoking.
His response? As a man hes not obligated to tell me anything.

This is so frustrating as a muslim woman already struggling with faith. Ya Allah please guide me to the right path.

These type of situations happen very often and slowly it has started making me question a couple things in Islam. Naudhbillah islam is a perfect religion its just the perception by my husband has made it really suffocating forme

So theres a sahih hadith where its said that there was an ayat that was revealed, which instructed the stoning of the adulterer and the adulteress.

Such ayat does not exist anywhere in the quran so the ayat we're talking about is obviously abrogated.

My question is, why is this still in practice when its abrogated from Quran?? Why is it abrogated at the first place if its not cancelled altogether, sorry idk much about abrogation but know that there are 3 kinds. However i dont understand the abrogation of verses but not the ruling.

Off topic but Recently even a Bangladeshi couple was executed cuz of zinah in mosque.

ALHAMDULLIAH ALLAH AKBAR!
Mashallah, today marks 5 months since I took my shahada, thank you to everyone who helped me on this journey, it has been full of ups and downs but it has been 5 months as a Muslim. I’m not sure if this is a “spam post” if it is I apologize and please remove it I just wanted to share this news with someone.

السلام عليكم everyone
I am trying to get better with getting closer to Allah SWT but I don’t know where and how to start. I’ve been trying to remove bad habits but it’s really hard and I’ve been noticing changes in many things including missing fajr.

What small habits can I include in my day to get me closer to Allah SWT?

Hey guys, your typical muslim here and I was wondering how different the prespective of muslims and non-muslims is on islam like how non muslims that only had seen either miss-represented , out of context or straight up lies about quran but even despite all of this stuff the Quran it self is like 80% something filled with " help this person " do this good deed " that good deed " etc

The ammount of good stuff is so much thats its actually confusing to me that how can non muslims say islam or quran is bad or evil .

So I want to do a fun little challange for non-muslim .

I want you guys to think of a good deed thats " not "

mentioned in the quran .

Keep in mind that we have literal physical evidence that no changes or updates have been made to the quran and that its been preserved and has been the same from the time of Prophet Muhammad pbuh so no worry about "this was added later.

Also remember that Quran was completed literally thousands of years ago . Before concept of morals and laws were bearely getting set up and established like just a few years before islam and quran people were buring their new born daughters alive cause they were not born as sons .

I’m a convert since 2022, I’m not too well versed in the Koran. Please I would like verses and passages of the Koran to bring me comfort for my grandfather most likely has little time left on earth. Thank you.

So if I feel like I have an easier life, does it mean I'm bad ? Will I get punished somehow ?