Dear Fatima, As a Muslim, I was approached by my friends on why Muslims can’t date and Homosexuality in Islam. This was difficult to explain because there is this really popular girl at my school who is Hijabi yet she is dating a non-muslim guy. And not even limited contact, she and her boyfriend hold ... 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
I am a 16 year old girl and I became friends with this very nice Muslim boy and we became close and he told me he had feelings for me. We never acted upon the feelings and just continued being friends but his parents took his phone and read some texts and are very angry. ... 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 am 20ish woman, living in an Islamic country…umm, what I am about to write is not about me, it is about my cousin. So.. she’s 16, has a lovely foster parents and an older foster brother . So basically she’s my foster cousin but I will go with just cousin. She was adopted by ... Read More
I need to stop being so suspicious of men in my assumptions that they’re going to hurt me. In my eyes, any man has the potential to be abusive, even the ones I trust wholeheartedly. I see it as only a matter of time before they snap, before they assault me, which makes me ache ... Read More
hey stb people, lemme just say a thing: when i found out this website existed, i cried. i cried because i, for once, felt that there might be people out there that can help and support me in my really problematic life :/ so yea i feel like this might be a little long, but ... 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
Dear Fatima, I’m a 19 year old girl unsure of what to do. One of my Muslim friends has been “dating” a boy younger than her. Let’s call the girl Aya and the boy Samer (fake names). First it was just talking. Then it got to the point where they were meeting up, and he ... 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
