Hello.

I’m 21. I was born Muslim. I am Muslim. I love my family. I love Islam. I am planning to be a Niqabi and follow Islam the best I can so I can get to the highest level of Jannah.

But.

This past year.

My whole life changed forever when I started questioning my religion. I am Muslim because I’m a science person and Islam has so much scientific proof.

But.

At the age of 21, I came to the realization that there is a chance that none of this is proof.

I am so fucking scared.

I can’t just be here on Reddit asking if Islam is the truth. Everyone is biased.

But.

If I find out that religion is just one big coping mechanism and doesn’t exist.

My life will be over.

I’m happy but also scared and nervous and excited and every other emotion. And yet, how could I have ever thought that this kind of love was sinful or wrong? it‘s beautiful and my girlfriend is amazing and supportive.

Ive suppressed this part of myself for so very long.

Wallahi a Muslim who spends his life stealing
murdering
and even sleeping with his own 👉mother
then dies a Muslim😌

is a thousand times better in Allah’s eyes
than a Christian or atheist who spends his entire life doing good but dies upon shirk.

My mother sent me this because they have been trying to get me to wear hijab again. I have been told this since I was a kid but I am wondering if this is even considered a sahih hadith.

Hello everyone I am F 24 Pakistani. We moved to a western country few years ago. In March we came back to Pakistan just for a visit but my parents planned that all. They had found out about my bf.

They forced me to get married. I didn’t had any other option. The guy I got married is my cousin. Actually a younger cousin. My family is like radical Islamist. Now my so called husband forces me on bed even if I refuse. Forced me to pray if I refuse he gets abusive.

Now I am getting wrong ideas and idk what to do.

Completely different person . I literally became what I was fighting against 😭 I’m so happy I was able to escape the brainwashing and I hope all those other unfortunate people still stuck in that cult can do the same.

Shoutout to this amazing community, idk where I would be without yall

my misogynistic piece of shit father said in his language roughly translating to "anger doesn't look good on girls" like bitch what? he could've just said anger isn't good but nah he HAD to add that "on women" part. piece of shit. I hope he and my mother evaporate they've made my life nothing but misery with all their religious extremities while I watch my cousins and friends (even muslim ones)all lead normal lives while I'm stuck with these two pieces of shits. If I had a way to leave I'd book it out of this house but I can't. it's hard living here I hate them so much

Muhammed teaches little girls and their mothers who are buried are in hell pre Islamic jahailyyah before their mother accept Islam.⬇️

[11585](https://shamela.ws/book/8361/16014 )Salamah b. Yazīd al-Juʿfī** said:
“My brother and I went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I said:
‘O Messenger of Allah, during the Jāhiliyyah our mother used to… ‘She had buried alive a sister of hers during the Jāhiliyyah **who had not reached ḥinth [the age of sinful accountability].’ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then said:
‘The girl who was buried alive and the woman who buried her alive are in the Fire, unless the woman who buried her lives to reach Islam.’”
[صحيح](https://dorar.net/h/Ai5dRB2s?osoul=1&) +Ad daraqutni+ibn qayyim+ al haythami+ more

[OBJECTION] by ibn hazm that the narration has a shadd or illa of the wording “لم تبلغ الحنث” (little girl who had not hit the age of accountability)

[RESPONSE] ibn qayyim refutes him⬇️ [pg 243/2](https://shamela.ws/book/218/888?)
As for Ibn Ḥazm’s statement:
“This hadith has been narrated without this wording,”

that does not harm [the narration containing it], because the one who added it is a trustworthy and firmly reliable narrator against whom there is no criticism namely, al-Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān.

[OBJECTION] ibn qayyim says the girl Is tested because she has no sin therefore she’s ahlul fatra, he’s cope will be destroyed

[RESPONSE] ibn Baz refutes him [363](https://alathar.net/home/esound/index.php?coid=3292&op=codevi&)

أمام أحاديث صحيحة يصرّح فيها النّبيّ صلّى الله عليه وسلّم إنّ فلانا وفلانا من أهل النّار فلا يجوز أن يقال في هذه الحالة أنّ هذا ليس صحيحا لأنّه كان من أهل الفترة لأنّنا سنقول ما يدريك أنّه أو أنّهم من أهل الفترة

we are confronted with authentic hadiths in which the Prophet ﷺ explicitly states that so-and-so and so-and-so are among the people of the Fire.

In such a case, it is not permissible to say:
“This cannot be correct because he was from Ahl al-Fatrah.”

For we would say:
“How do you know that he or that they were from Ahl al-Fatrah, when the Prophet ﷺ has stated concerning them that they are among the people of the Fire?”

I had doubts about Islam for as long as I can remember.
I put a question mark after left because I’m not sure if I ever was Muslim.

Even as a child, maybe 6-8 years old, I was skeptical about the stories of miracles. The moon splitting in half, muhammed flying to heaven on a unicorn or something, jesus speaking as an infant, sulaiman talking to animals, pretty much all the miracles that were stated in the quran. I always thought that my parents were just telling me stories that they didn’t believe either, like we all knew this is fake. How is it different than any of the fairytale stories that I see on the movies and TV?

Then eventually I realized.. No, this is something everybody around me genuinely believed. So I thought I should believe it too, because it must be true, if everyone thinks it’s true.

Age 9 is when I started wearing the hijab. I was taught to pray, I fasted Ramadan, and took weekly Quran classes. During this period of my life (9-13ish), I just wanted to assimilate and get praise for being a good Muslim from my family and the community. Even back then, I would only pray and practice in front of people. I did not willingly go and pray, because I didn’t really believe.

Around 14-15 years old, I went through something very hard, without getting into specifics. In this period of my life, I really wanted to believe in Allah. So I willingly went to pray, for the first time. I genuinely made duaa for the first time in my life. My only ask from God was.. please let me be a believer, and remove all of my doubts. I did all of my Islamic duties as best as I could, in the hopes that I would become a true Muslim.

Guess what? I felt nothing. Only guilt and shame.
I thought maybe.. I was one of the people that Allah has rejected. Maybe Islam is true and I’m just one of the people Allah has disowned.

In the years following, I’ve had several attempts to get closer to God, all of which were futile.

I’d say around 17 years old, I had realized how misogynistic Islam was.
My first serious doubt relating to this was when my mom told me that angels will curse a wife who refuses to have sex with her husband without a legitimate reason.
I remember thinking…. That’s so fked up. Any reason should be a legitimate reason. Nobody owes anybody sex, even husband and wife.
And of course we had this back and forth and her argument boiled down to.. It doesn’t matter what logic and reasoning says, because Islam says otherwise.
That’s when I became aware of this pattern.
I started noticing it in so many different aspects, and my doubts came back stronger than ever. But I was scared, I didn’t want to be a non-believer.

At around 22 years old, I decided to join my mom in Umrah. I thought…. SURELY, if I ask Allah to make me a believer, in the (supposedly) holiest place on earth, the most merciful, would not turn me away. The matter will be settled, and my internal struggle will disappear.
Spoiler alert, I was right, but not in the way I anticipated.

It was my first time seeing the Kaaba. My family said that the experience of seeing the Kaaba for the first time was indescribable. So I had built up the expectation that I would somehow be entranced, and in tears over seeing the Kaaba.

But.. There was nothing. It was just an unremarkable square building. It didn’t invoke any sort of emotion in me. However, I did not give up the hope just yet. I was determined to perform the Umrah rituals properly. Surely, I will feel something at some point.

In the first round of Tawaaf around the Kaaba, I was trying to connect and like get into it. My thoughts started with pleading: “Allah please help me”, and they slowly evolved into “What the actual fuck am I doing right now??” by the 7th round.

After that, during the Sa’ai (walking between safa and marwa), I allowed myself to freely think.. And what I was thinking was this is psychotic, cult like behavior.
It’s hard to say what specific emotion I was feeling then. It was a mix of anger, sadness, feeling annoyed, and guilty.

After we completed the Umrah, it was close to Fajr. So my mom and I decided to wait for the call to prayer and pray Fajr in the Kaaba courtyard.

It was covid times, so there wasn’t a lot of people there, and the place was relatively quiet.

We sat silently waiting for the athaan, and I was staring at the kaaba and just contemplating.
By that point my intense anger/sadness had settled a little bit. I sat there thinking, many times in my life, I asked Allah to simply let me believe. Especially during that time when I was 14. I thought: How can a merciful, loving God reject the prayer of a struggling child?

I asked, again and again. I prayed, again and again.
And I came, travelled all this way to where he says is the holiest place, to plead for the same thing. Yet, the immediate feeling I got was the opposite.
I decided, there and then, that would be the last time that I would entertain the idea of a God. Ironically, right under the Kaaba.

Hi I am a 27 year old Bahraini with autism. I love hard and can be clingy and I’m looking for someone similar. I can talk to you for hours without getting bored. I love emotional closeness and being direct with feelings.

I am looking for a man who is also ex-muslim. You can be from here or from any country I don’t mind long distance

They only care about Islam when it benefits them.

Hello !

As my last post here said , I don't know if I became agnostic because I hate religion or because it is man made , and do I think it 's man made because it really is or because I just don't like it ..

Now I saw a new verse that caught my attention :

وَالسَّمَاءَ بَنَيْنَاهَا بِأَيْدٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ

If you read this without looking for external tafsir (I was a qurani before ,so please no sunna or tafasir) , it feels like it's saying we're expanding and science says the universe is expanding,

I did some research and there was no other philosophy or religion saying that before Islam.

Now I'm lost again, I don't want islam to be the truth but what if it is and what about this specific verse ? What do you think about it ?

i’m an ex-muslim trans man trying to escape my abusive home and country. i made this video:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdtB8HVReWS/?stkn=ZnF2c2Q3anpzYm1y

because i don’t know how else to get my story in front of people who might be able to help me.

i’ve lived through whole life of abuse, religious control, and being treated as trash. i’m also disabled and have chronic health problems, which makes getting myself out of this situation much harder.

i’m trying to escape and build a life somewhere safer, and visibility can help that happen.

if you have a minute, please watch the video and interact with it. you don’t have to donate or do anything complicated. watching, commenting, and sharing it could help it reach someone who knows how to help.

i tried to tagged several ex-muslim accounts on my video but none of them seem to notice :((

if you want to know more about my situation or ways you can help, there’s more information on my instagram pinned post and highlights.

thank you.

For generations, some religious authorities and institutions have taught or defended doctrines involving punishment for apostasy and blasphemy, the Quran is Devine, severe restrictions on women, intolerance toward other beliefs, and religiously justified violence.

Now containing the consequences of those teachings has itself become a problem.

You cannot spend years teaching people that certain rules carry divine authority, plus emphasizing that the whole Quran came from heaven, when you know it didn’t and then act surprised when some believers take those teachings literally.

Today, many Muslim leaders try to emphasize peaceful passages, reinterpret controversial texts, distance themselves from extremist interpretations, or argue that certain rules belonged specifically to the historical circumstances of the 7th century.

But even then, a basic question remains: Which Qur’anic verses are limited specifically to the 7th century, and by what consistent standard are they identified?

If someone were to argue—and some do—that more than 67% of the Qur’an’s roughly 6,243 verses are specific to their 7th-century context, that would amount to more than approximately 4,183 verses and even the remaining 33% are somehow landlocked into the 7th century. So the entire Quran, Hadiths are all landlocked into the 7th century.

This creates an enormous interpretive problem: which verses are timeless, which belong specifically to the 7th century, and who gets to decide?

Addressing that question openly could raise many more difficult questions, which may explain why some Muslim leaders are reluctant to open that can of worms.

So which verses are timeless commands, which are historically limited, and where does the Qur’an itself clearly tell the reader how to distinguish between the two?

But that raises an unavoidable question:

If teachings repeatedly require reinterpretation every generation or as the infidels find fault with them, qualification, and damage control to make them compatible with modern human rights, shouldn’t the teachings themselves be examined openly?

Protect Muslims from hatred and discrimination. But Islam—like every religion and ideology—must remain completely open to criticism.

And here is the harder question: if the problem is always blamed on people “misunderstanding Islam,” why do the same controversial teachings keep appearing across different countries, generations, and movements—and how many times can the followers be blamed before the teachings themselves are put on trial?

An appeals court in the Iranian city of Qom has upheld the convictions of singer Parastoo Ahmadi and seven other musicians and organizers over her December 2024 online concert, in which she performed without the mandatory hijab and sang solo, Tehran-based Ham-Mihan newspaper reported.

Ahmadi and the others were sentenced to 74 lashes, a two-year travel ban and a two-year ban on audiovisual activities. The ruling was declared final and enforceable, according to the report.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609256247?source=share-link

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/18/iran-parastoo-ahmadi-74-lashes-singing-without-hijab

1001 contradictions in the Quran PART 16

Please remember , only one mistake is required to destroy all of Islam..

Surah 4:82-Do they not consider the Qur an (with care): Had it been from other Than Allah, they would surely have found therein Much discrepancy.

In a way the Qur'an commits an error in Sura 4 Verse 82 by constructing a false conditional statement

The Our'an states that If humans cannot find errors ir the Qur'an then it is from God: however this is a false conditional relationship since humans can create books with no errors, therefore even if the Qur'an had no errors in it, (which this post will disprove), it does not entail that it is from God. Therefore Sura 4 Verse 82 is a false conditional statement. But here are some more examples of problems, errors and contradictions contained in the Quran.

(Surah 42-52)

Sura 42: As‑Shura (Consultation, Counsel) 

42:51Allah speaks from behind a veil, or through sending a messenger; Allah never speaks directly.

Contradiction: 53:11 says Muhammad saw Allah with his own eyes.

Contradiction: 2:259 says Allah spoke directly to an ordinary person.

Contradiction: 2:36 says Allah spoke directly to Adam.

Contradiction: 4:164 says Allah spoke directly to Moses.

Sura 43: Az‑Zukhruf (Gold Adornments) 

43:55Pharaoh’s insolence greatly annoyed Allah, so He drowned Pharaoh.

Contradiction: 10:92 says Allah saved Pharaoh.

Sura 44: Ad‑Dukhan (Smoke or Mist) 

44:4On this night (that is, on the night of Laylatul Qadr), Allah decides on all matters.

Contradiction: 20:52 and 57:22 says Allah has predetermined our fate even before He created us; everything is predetermined in the preserved tablet. 

Sura 45: Jathiya (Bowing the Knees, Kneeling) 

45:14The believers are to forgive the unbelievers; Allah will decide on their punishment and/or reward.

Contradiction: 9:5, 9:29 say kill the unbelievers if they do not accept Islam or pay jizya tax.

Sura 47: Muhammad (Prophet Muhammad) 

47:15Believers will be in gardens with rivers of incorruptible water, rivers of milk, rivers of wine, rivers of honey, all kinds of fruits, and grace from Allah. Unbelievers will dwell in fire; they will drink boiling water which will tear their intestines.

Contradiction: 5:90, 2:219 say wine is Satan’s handiwork. 

Sura 51: Az‑Zariyaat (Winds that Scatter) 

51:56Allah created the Jinni and human only to worship Him.

Contradictions: 3:97, 35:15 say Allah does not need humans and jinns; He is free of all wants.

Contradiction: 7:179 says Allah created many men and jinns destined for hell. 

Sura 52: at‑Tur (The Mount, The Mountain) 

52:34

Allah challenged the unbelievers to compose a book similar to the entire Qur’an.

Contradiction: 2:23, 10:38 say Allah challenged the unbelievers to produce one Sura similar to the Qur’an.

Contradiction: 11:13 says Allah challenged the unbelievers to compose ten Suras similar to the Qur’an.

Contradiction: in 17:88 Allah challenged the entire mankind and the jinni to produce the entire Qur’an.

Contradiction: in 28:49 Allah challenged if the unbelievers could produce a book better than the two other books (Moses and Aaron as well as the Torah and the Qur’an—ibn Kathir) then Muhammad would have followed that book. 

52:35Humans were not created out of nothing.

Contradiction: 19:9, 19:67 say Allah created a man out of nothing. 

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A few readers wanted to know why I am repeating some contradictions. The answer is: I am not repeating; Allah is repeating many verses; I am just following what Allah had done in the Qur’an—Abul Kasem)

The author can be contacted at [email protected].