FILED UNDER: Community Building, Prophetic Guidance, Ramadan, Social Issues
TAGGED WITH:: communal obligation, community, converts, fard kifaya examples, fard kifayah, Imam Khalid Latif, loneliness, Ramadan
/by Content TeamThe convert experience in Islam is one that is tough for many. Muslim communities throughout the world get excited when someone enters into their doors saying they want to accept Islam. There are hugs and laughter and a large uproar – and then everything stops and the convert has to figure out how to move […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Living Religion
TAGGED WITH:: friends, friendship, loneliness
/by sufyanAnswered by Ustadha Raidah Shah Idil Question: How can I overcome loneliness? Does Islam allow us to make friends and spend time with them? Is there any supplication to get new friends? Answer: Assalamualaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, I pray this finds you well. May Allah lift your loneliness and grant you the gift of […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel
TAGGED WITH:: convert, depression, Hope in Allah, loneliness
/by sufyanAnswered by Ustadha Raidah Shah Idil Question: I converted to Islam when I was 19 but have only started practising it sincerely this past Ramadan. Since then, I have been a depressive wreck and intensely lonely. I have no friends nor family members to speak to. I feel even more of an orphan after practicing […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel
TAGGED WITH:: depression, domestic violence, duas, invocations, loneliness, marriage, supplication, unemployment
/by sufyanAnswered by Ustadha Zaynab Ansari Abdul-Razacq Question: I would like some help inshaAllah. I attend Islamic courses and feel my imaan is boosted after. But then I cannot maintain this afterwards. I feel depressed about my life situation such as unemployment and loneliness due to not being able to find a spouse and this gets […]
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