I am an 18 year old Shia Muslim girl. I am having many doubts about Islam and monotheistic religions. I have read that a Muslim wife must obey her husband and that is the key to paradise for a woman. My mom says that the obedience only refers to the wife making herself sexually available ... Read More
I am a young woman who is interested in getting married in the near-future, but I wish to continue my education and develop a career. Therefore, I wish to have kids in my late 20s or early 30s. I am worried if there are any religious Muslim men who have the same way if thought; ... Read More
I am an 18-year-old Iranian girl. This is a trivial matter, but I really do not like unibrows on men. My mother told me that no religious, Iranian man would ever remove his unibrow, but I don’t understand why. I know that different cultures have different customs, but why is it associated with religiosity? Did ... Read More
I am an 18 year old girl and I think of myself as a romantic. I watch television shows and read books about romance, but from my knowledge, watching kissing scenes is haram. I truly want to marry as soon as the right opportunity comes. I do not have many requirements for a husband, such ... Read More
I am an 18 year old female and although I know my decisions can change in the future, I don’t want any biological children. I want to foster children instead; there are so many poor children out there, such as many Chinese abandoned baby girls. Some Muslims have told me that I should still have ... Read More
I am about 18 years old and a female. My father is very fond of the idea of marriage and it bothers me a lot that he keeps talking about it. I am not against young marriage, but I believe the time will come when I am ready. I do not have a very good ... Read More
Hi, I’m a senior girl in high school living in the United States. I was born in the U.S., but my family is from Iran. My mom and dad came to the U.S. for his job. We went back and forth from the U.S. to Iran. Since second grade, we have stayed here without moving. ... Read More
Dear Fatima, I’m currently a 17-year-old senior girl in high school. I will be going to university in New York soon inshallah. The problem I am facing is that my father’s job may come to an end in two years and we’ll have to move back to my parents’ home country. I have lived in ... Read More
Salaams Fatima, I am a 26 year old male medical student in the United States – raised here since I was about 2 years old. I have issues with feeling unappreciated and unwanted, and I feel inferior to other people. It begins with the fact that I have a stammer that makes it difficult for ... Read More
Dear Fatima, Hi. I’m currently 17 years old, almost 18. I come from a traditionally conservative Iranian family. When I was 15 years old, almost two years go, I became friends with a guy on my Cross Country team. I had been on the team with him the year before that, but we had never ... Read More
