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  • Wants to be an artist against her parents' will

    I want to be an artist when I grow up. But my parents want me to become a doctor or nurse. I really want to become an artist. Can I go against their wishes and become an artist? Is it a sin to draw faces and animals?.. More

  • Wants to study and stop working with her father

    About two years ago I quit my cashier job to work with my dad in our Donair restaurant. It's a family run business in which I work five days a week 10 hours a day. And I don't like the job. My desire is to go back to school and finish my course (nutrition) but I'm the only full time worker they have. What should I do? .. More

  • Cutting off relation with an atheist and cruel mother

    I'm 25 years old married and have two kids. My problem is that I came up in a very abusive childhood. I was both physical and verbally abused by my mother. I don't want to get into details but, I have mental issues from what she did to me. I broke the ties with my mother around 9 years ago, and what made me really break the ties with her is.. More

  • His father wants him to marry his widowed cousin

    I am from Mali, Africa. I live in USA. My father who is in Mali has said I have to marry my cousin since her husband died. This is not something I want to do. I already have a wife here. This is not something she will agree on either. I am Muslim she is Christian. But we have no problem with this. I will never see this woman for many years... More

  • His Hindu mother performed some Hindu rituals in his new house

    If a revert has purchased a new house, his parents are still Hindu. They visit the house for the first time. The mother performs some religious Hindu ritual, the son (revert) knows the reason she is visiting the house, but says nothing. He knows he will not take part in it. He simply does not wish to upset his mother and since he will not.. More

  • Her father is abusive to her mother

    I wanted to ask you that my father fight all the time with my mom he hits her and us children also he has been doing this for all the time he has been married her its been 25 years since he married her he doesn't follow the Islam properly but want everything from my mom that Islam says to do for a man a husband but doesn't care abut her rights.. More

  • Her father wants to marry her off to a man she does not want

    i have a problem with my father even though he done so many things to raise me and brothers and sister well it seems to be that there is a problem of miscomunication between us he is alwayes angry at somthing he doesnt pay attention to his health and dosnt take anyones advice he treats me as if was no body ,a few days ago i cam to know that.. More

  • Her father wants to send her to a college she hates

    I am a 17-year old American-Egyptian female high school student applying for college my dad wants to send me to a college I hate and I know is not appropriate to my need just so I could continue to live at home. However there are colleges farther away that offer what I need but that would require me to live there. My parents say this is a sin... More

  • Wants to join his family in India but his parents want him to stay abroad

    I am an Indian working in a company in Russia. Though my pay package is good and I even have family status, what I am worried is that next year my children's school would start and I want them to be educated in India. The atmosphere in Russia is not conducive to staying alone. If I leave the job and go looking for the same in India, the main.. More

  • Her husband's parents want him to marry to have children

    I am married childless woman from past 8-years. My in-laws are forcing my husband to get married. But he is denying. He wants to wait. Can the parents force to get married for the 2nd time. Just to have a child. They don't have any problem with me. But my husband is not ready. Is he doing any sin by not listening to them?.. More

  • Wants to live far from his parents who caused him problems

    I am 28 years old, I would like to ask question regarding my parents. My mother and father are very careless, they don't have any love and affection for us. My mother only cares for money. I work in a private company, when I get my salary she will demand to give me my full salary and she will not care for us. She will never ask me about my.. More

  • Went to an Islamic lecture against her father's will

    After greetings I wanted to know if I committed a sin. My father and I disagreed on something, I wanted to go to a sermon which was being held on our neighborhood and on this sermon it was all about Islamic knowledge, but suddenly my father refused for me to go just because he disliked those people. I didn't listen to him and went instead. Did.. More

  • Wants to learn Islam but her parents want her to study medicine

    First of all may Allaah have mercy upon anyone who helps another Muslim in anyway, Aameen that being said, for about a year I had a strong urge to start studying the Quran and the Hadeeth, basically everything that has to do with Islam, there's only one problem and that is that my parents want for me to graduate from college, a degree in medicine,.. More

  • Left his home due to poor relations with his brother and his wife

    We belong to Pashtun Tribe of Pakistan. We are 3 brothers, I'm the middle one. My elder brother married in 1997. I got married in 2002. His (elder brother) wife remained hostile to my wife from the very beginning. Because she thinks she is senior to my wife. Then she started false allegations on my wife. She (my brother's wife) started working.. More

  • After divorce the father neglects or abandons his children

    If a husband after the divorce neglects his entire obligation towards his child including not paying the Nafqah or he totally disappear from their life although he is still alive, can he still be considered as the guardian of the child? Or can that right be taken away from him? And should he be called to be the Waali of his daughter's marriage,.. More