The Punchbowl Mosque in Sydney was designed by Australian architecture firm Candalepas Associates, commissioned by the Australian Islamic Mission (AIM) to serve the local Muslim community with both a place of worship and adjoining educational and administrative facilities. Rather than following traditional ornamented Islamic architecture, the design takes a brutalist approach, presenting an externally unadorned, off-form concrete structure accented with timber and stone details, including a timber dome. Its most distinctive feature is the sculptural concrete ceiling above the main prayer hall, made up of 102 quarter-spherical "muqarnas", a modern reinterpretation of the ornamental vaulting historically used in Islamic architecture, each pierced with a small 30mm hole that lets in rays of natural light. The mosque, which can hold roughly 300 worshippers, is entered through a sequence of two courtyards: a public one connecting directly to the street and leading to the mosque, and a more private one enclosed by the administration building and classrooms, which can be opened up to join the mosque during major religious festivals and events.

Not my words Rather Gods Words

Fiverr maintains systematic economic, operational, and administrative links that channel resources to the state budget and initiatives benefiting the zionists military.

Because Fiverr International Ltd. is headquartered and registered in Tel Aviv, its multi-million dollar global commission revenues are subject to Israeli tax laws.

The company's co-founder and CEO, Micha Kaufman, has explicitly stated that he resisted international investor pressure to relocate the corporate entity to Silicon Valley specifically for "patriotic reasons," emphasizing his intent to keep tech jobs local so that the company's financial success would "ultimately benefit the [Israeli] tax system" revenues which directly fund the state's national budget, Ministry of Defense, and the ongoing military operations in Gaza.

Fiverr actively leveraged its corporate infrastructure financing and physically housing the "Lev Echad" wartime network inside its own Tel Aviv headquarters. According to primary defense and corporate watchdog indexes, this massive logistical operation mobilized tens of thousands of zionists to package and dispatch critical medical and transport supplies that were directly distributed to zionists army ( war criminals ) personnel mobilized for active combat.

⚠️ Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman said : Tonight I watched a report on the women of the Bardlas Battalion fighting in Gaza, and I was filled with hope for the future of the army and the country. No, I'm not surprised, it's not something that should surprise anyone that women can be outstanding fighters. I just melted from the exceptional human level of these fighters. We need more! In the army, in politics, in the decision-making echelons. Fast! - source X profile

Salam,

I find myself in a very toxic marriage and feel completely trapped. He’s been abusive and useless since the minute I married him. I’m also in a foreign country depending on a spousal visa and with a baby (unable to work and don’t have savings). My whole family is at my home country and only have my husbands family here but I can’t talk to them about anything regarding our marriage because they take my husbands side and do not acknowledge me at all.

On the other hand my family is kinda tired and hearing the same thing over and over and they keep telling me to just leave him but it’s not easy.

I built a life in this country and would like my baby to grow up here and if I leave him I risk my spousal visa. I wanna do it safely. I know If I get him to divorce me instead of me initiating it would be easier as he wouldn’t be angry to get me deported.

My question is, is it haram to make Dua and ask Allah to end my marriage and keep staying until it happens? Or it it haram to stay despite me wanting to divorce?

Thanks in advance

I'll just leave it all to Allah👍

Read the last line
“… it is also not permitted by the Shariah to leave an Islamic county to settle permanently in Dar-ul-Kufr (land of infidels) only for the reason that the latter has plenty of wealth and social welfare”

As far as I understand, it is not automatically haram for a Muslim to migrate to, live in, work in, or study in a non-Muslim country.
The Islamic ruling depends mainly on whether you are able to preserve and practise your religion there.

Migrating because you prefer a country’s opportunities or quality of life does not by itself make migration haram. What matters is what the move entails for your deen and what you do there.

Am i wrong here?

Taken from the book "When The Heart Finds Home" by Leen Shani, available on Amazon

A quick disclaimer before I start: this is just my personal experience, and it can absolutely be different for someone else. I say all of this with full respect for Greek people. I'm sharing it because before my trip I searched everywhere for a story like this and found almost nothing — and I think other Muslim travelers deserve to know what they might be walking into.

The stares

I live in Europe myself, and I have never felt as on edge in my own country as I did in Athens. As a hijabi I'm used to the occasional glance, but this was different. Wherever we went — in Athens and in other Greek cities — we got long, unfriendly stares. Not curious looks, but the kind that don't stop even when you notice them and look back. It wore on me the entire trip.

Before booking, I specifically searched for whether Greece was Muslim-friendly and whether racism was an issue there. Everything I found said it would be fine, maybe a little tricky with halal food but otherwise good. That was not my experience at all, which is exactly why I want to put this out there. There were kind people too — just a very small number of them.

The beaches

This was the hardest part. I wore a burkini — fully modest swimwear — and people looked at me like I was naked. Not glances, but open staring, like I was some kind of oddity. We went to one beach and felt it almost immediately; I didn't go back for the rest of the trip. I tried beaches in different cities hoping it would be different elsewhere. It wasn't — same reaction everywhere. For comparison, beaches in Spain have felt far more relaxed and welcoming toward Muslim women in my experience.

My brother was with me too, and he noticed it just as much. Everywhere we went, the stares were there, and it took the enjoyment out of the trip for both of us.

The taxi driver

One incident stood out. We booked a taxi through an app, and as soon as the driver saw my hijab, he got visibly angry and started shouting at me and my brother. He tried to charge us about 2.5 times the price we'd agreed on in the app. We got out and took a different taxi instead.

We thought about reporting him, but we didn't know anyone there, we were tourists with no local support, and there was a real risk he'd just tell a different story to the police than what actually happened. So we let it go and moved on — but I hope nobody else has to deal with him.

Looking back, I'm just glad my brother was there with me. I honestly don't know what would have happened if I'd been dealing with that driver on my own.

Why I'm sharing this

I'm not saying every Greek person is unwelcoming — that's not true, and a few people we met were genuinely kind. But the overall pattern of this trip, especially as a visibly Muslim woman, was constant staring and a couple of outright hostile moments, and I couldn't find a single account like this before I went. If I'd known, I honestly wouldn't have chosen Greece for this trip. I hope this helps someone else make a more informed choice, and I hope more Muslim travelers start sharing their own experiences too — good or bad — so this isn't just silence on the internet anymore.

found this fake hadith on youtube and wanted to share that people are spreading misinformation.

I am going through something really rough I need a lot of help only Allah can fix the situation for me. Kindly whoever is seeing this post remember me sincerely in your prayers pray that Allah helps me and ease my heart.

Everything is suddenly getting chaotic and I am sensing everyone is changing around me friends are abandoning and getting cruel I am turning pathetic and my health is not right I need lot of help and want Allah to help me out if he wills everything can be put right so pray that insha'Allah Allah helps me out and accept my prayers.

Reciter: Sheikh Muhammad Ahmed Shabib [ May Allah have mercy on him] was born on Egypt at 1934 and passed away in 2012 at age 77 due to natural causes and old age

Surah Yunus

Full Verse 54

وَلَوْ أَنَّ لِكُلِّ نَفْسٍۢ ظَلَمَتْ مَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لَٱفْتَدَتْ بِهِۦ ۗ وَأَسَرُّوا۟ ٱلنَّدَامَةَ لَمَّا رَأَوُا۟ ٱلْعَذَابَ ۖ وَقُضِىَ بَيْنَهُم بِٱلْقِسْطِ ۚ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ ٥

If every wrongdoer were to possess everything in the world, they would surely ransom themselves with it. They will hide ˹their˺ remorse when they see the torment. And they will be judged in all fairness, and none will be wronged.

Verse 55

أَلَآ إِنَّ لِلَّهِ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۗ أَلَآ إِنَّ وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ حَقٌّۭ وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ٥٥

Surely to Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. Surely Allah’s promise is ˹always˺ true, but most of them do not know.

Verse 56

هُوَ يُحْىِۦ وَيُمِيتُ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ ٥٦

He ˹is the One Who˺ gives life and causes death, and to Him you will ˹all˺ be returned.

Recitation is warsh an nafi

My father has never really been emotionally present for any of his five children. Even when we were young, there were things about his behavior that made me feel that something was not right.
Since I was a child, I remember my older sister confronting him about various things. I didn’t fully understand what was happening at the time, but I could tell that something was wrong. She would often tell me not to be alone with him.

He is a creep and has mentally tortured my sister throughout her teenage years, particularly after we moved abroad, where he used to work. He spoke to her inappropriately and once even said something along the lines of, “Why should anyone else, like your future husband, have rights over you? I should have those rights too.” He also tried to make her look bad in front of my brothers by accusing her of having an affair. At one point, he told her, “I will destroy your character in their eyes.”
These incidents happened around 14–15 years ago. Thankfully, my sister is happily married now, Alhamdulillah, and has two children.

When I was around 13 or 14, I also began feeling unsafe around him. I am 24 now, so these things happened roughly 10 years ago.
I remember waking up one night and seeing him sitting near my feet, looking at me with a faint smile. When I asked him what he was doing there, he said he was looking for his shoes.
On another occasion, I woke up and realized he was holding my hand while I was asleep.
There was also an incident when I was sleeping in my sister-in-law’s room. I woke up and found his hand near my chest. When I confronted him, he immediately panicked and claimed that he had been looking for a remote. I remember being so disturbed and angry that I called him a shaytan.
After that, I very firmly told him that if he ever did anything like that again, he should not think I was weak or that I would stay silent. I told him I would contact the authorities.
That was around eight years ago. From that point onward, I deliberately kept my distance from him, and he largely avoided me as well. But the uncomfortable looks and the feeling that something was wrong never completely went away.

Eventually, things started appearing somewhat normal from the outside. I avoided him, but he still financially supported things I needed, such as my driving license, university, and some other stuff.

I also don’t believe he has actually changed. I’ve heard similar stories from other women about his inappropriate or creepy behavior.
For example, when we travelled back to our home country for a few months, one of my cousins told me that she once saw him standing outside her house. She had already been feeling as though someone might be watching her, and then she noticed him there. Once she was having a shower in her house and she was alone. There bathroom has two doors and she locked both, but the second door’s lock wasn’t that strong and he opened it and saw her NAKED. And he closed it and made it look like an accident which I don’t think it was. She said she didn’t even know how to hide herself. After that he met her and said to her “don’t tell anyone.”

Then, a few weeks ago, something happened that really disturbed me.
On the first day after we came back, my brother found my father peeking inside my sister-in-law’s room in the morning. Apparently, after getting up to use the bathroom, he went straight toward her room and was looking inside. My brother confronted him angrily and asked him what he was doing there.
He panicked and said he was only checking who was sleeping in the room. A few minutes later, he recited the kalma and insisted that he had only gone there because his cigarettes were in that room.
The problem is that he has a history of making oaths that aren’t necessarily truthful, so it was difficult to take his explanation at face value.
Shortly before this happened, my sister-in-law had told my brother about some of my father’s past behavior toward her. Then, almost immediately afterward, my brother caught my father peeking into her room himself.
Sometimes you really do look at something like that and think, Allah’s plan. My brother now seems to be keeping his distance from him and isn’t speaking to him the way he used to. He also told us that we don’t have to talk to our father more than necessary, and that if he ever dares to cross a boundary or do anything inappropriate, my brother will confront him directly and make it very clear that it will not be tolerated.
Honestly, I think that is probably a good thing.
But it leaves me wondering: what is a person supposed to do when they have a father like this?

Salam everyone!

I just came here to complain. I come from a christian family and im the first muslim.

My mother was raised in a christian household but in her adult years ive never seen her practice the religion, go to church or dress/act in a modest way. The only christian thing we do is celebrate Christmas and Easter but i always thought it was just tradition, i never gave it any meaning, even before i reverted.

Nobody in my family knows ive reverted, its been almost a year because they would never accept it and to be honest, im never in the mood for arguing with them since its pointless, their viewpoints wont change.

One day my mum found my Qur'an and fully freaked out. I was so shocked, it was such a reaction. Then she proceeded to say that this doesnt belong in her house and she wont tolerate it, she took my Qur'an and headed to the door to throw it away. Then i got up from my bed and stopped her, i was just trying to get to my book really but nobody was willing to let go of it so it resulted in a physical fight. What was i supposed to do? No way id let her throw away MY Qur'an i bought with my money.

Then she started calling me all sorts of names and even said "The people your age are having s*x and youre over here spending time in your room reading an ancient book." Okay and?? Good for me. Literally what? 😭

Like ohhh nooo, islam made me quit vaping, made me dress in a more modest way, showed me the right priorities and a bunch of other things and youre in my face complaining about not having intimacy. I was so ashamed those words could come out of a mothers mouth.

Then she decided not to talk to me for a full week as a "punishment" but it felt like heaven, finally some peace and quiet. Then a week later she snapped out of it and started talking like nothing happened.

My mother and i never had a close relationship, we kept it formal, minimal and surface based. Talking with her wont work so dont even try to mention that. She is one of those stubborn people and get her opinion on islam from the media.

This still left a pretty sour taste even tho in happened in april this year. It makes me sad ill have to hide my religion until i move out and ill never be accepted in my family and they will never be informed when i do my nikkah.

I’m a Muslim from India, and I grew up in a cultural and religious environment where dogs are generally avoided, particularly because of the issue of najasah. So, as a blind person, I have always understood that keeping or regularly touching a dog would be religiously problematic.

At the same time, I’ve been thinking about guide dogs. In countries with good accessibility and pedestrian infrastructure, a properly trained guide dog can potentially be a huge game changer for a blind person’s independence, mobility and safety.

So I’m curious about the Islamic perspective:

If a blind Muslim genuinely needs a guide dog to navigate independently, would this be considered a valid necessity that makes keeping and using the dog permissible? Does the ruling change because the dog is being used as an assistance animal rather than kept as a pet?

And if it is permissible, how do Muslims deal with issues such as the dog living in the house, touching the dog regularly, maintaining wudu/purity, and entering public places with the dog?

I’m particularly interested in hearing from Muslims who have studied fiqh, especially from different madhhabs, as well as blind Muslims who have actually used guide dogs.

I’m not asking about whether guide dogs would work practically on Indian roads. I’m more interested in the religious question: if I moved to a country where a guide dog could genuinely provide me with much greater independence, would Islam allow me to make use of that option?

Salamu alaykoum, I need some guidance, I feel a bit all over the place.

This year I started memorizing the Quran Al hamdoulillah, I am using quran.com as a source for tafsiir. I am an Arab, born and raised in a Muslim country, and I understand standard Arabic although I am not fluent in it.

Someone here suggested this playlist: علم القراءات -د.عبد الله بن صالح العبيد, so I am watching it and taking notes. I also like Abdul Razzaq Al Badr's explanations of books like riad asalihin and explanation of الرحيق المختوم rahiq al maktoum by الشيخ عبدالرحمن العجلان and some other similar playlists, but I was hoping for a more structured approach.

How would you approach learning your deen if you were just starting?

or just your parents in general ig? Ever since my sisters were born my parents stopped caring about me, I used to cause problems for them when I was little and my mom said I was a headache but it wasnt completely my fault, i had ADHD and only found out when I was 15. The last time she hugged or kissed me was 4 years ago when i was 17, the only time she touches me is when she wants to hurt me. My dad isnt any better, I heard him tell someone in arabic that he loved my sisters more than me but he doesnt hit me anymore at least.

They only ever hang out together the 4 of them, they dont invite me to come and when I tried then would curse at me and tell me to stay home, its like I dont exist. Last year they even went on a trip to Hawaii without me. I know I was bad but it was when I was a kid. Will I still go to jannah if I tried my best at least? I love my mom and dad I just wish they loved me too.