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Old 05-25-2011, 08:37 PM   #39
mashabox

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Assalamu Aleikum,

Sister Nabila, I think I've faced the same struggle as you are facing now. Alhamdulillah, my Imaan is growing now.
I'm an uni student, I'm in an environment where most people are agnostic or atheists.
Reason for this, especially in the west is that it's the current academic culture.
If you have faith, you have 'faith-bias'. 'Intelligent people don't believe'.

So I often had a debate with my professors (most of them are agnostic) about religion.
While having these debates, I had zero knowledge of Islam, so it was not really a good move of me to do this.
Most of the questions they raised, I couldn't answer and this lead me to doubt.

But Alhamdulillah, to a lot of questions, especially the important ones I've found answers which I find satisfying.

- Why is it important to believe even if you are a good person?
- Why is there evil in the world?

May I ask you, with which questions you are struggeling?

Waleikum Salam,
Salaam Alaikum Brother. Thank you for your message. I agree with you, in the Western world, if you're religious, you are seen as being stupid and completely backward.

Oh, I'm glad to hear that you are better in faith now Alhumdulillah, and I pray that your faith can carry on increasing Insha'Allah.

Actually, this happened to me in late 2008, for about 6 months. Every week I would doubt a particular thing, so one week would be about the existence of God, the next week would be about free will and predestination, etc.

It's a very hard time, and I still remember how terrified I used to feel, but Alhumdulillah after a couple of months, the doubts and whispers just stopped.

These days though, I'm struggling with a different kind of doubt, especially in wudu. I have to repeat it over and over again, but Insha'Allah things will get better with time.
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