Salaam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9be8TkbFShI&t=3s

The ruling specifically deals with consumption. What you have no power over is something completely different. You can’t be punished for someone else’s actions. That being said, I would discourage anyone from placing themselves into a situation where they are around alcohol i.e. going to happy hour with your work friends or attending a mixer where there is alcohol. I get that sometimes, these things can’t be avoided, but there’s a difference between not being able to avoid the situation, and having the power to do so. I’ll leave it in your hands to decide. Insha Allah that helps! 

It is not prohibited, and they’d be hard pressed to find evidence that it was. However, it may be a safety concern that they are taking into account. 

I don’t think anyone would have considered this person a scholar, and her argument was that the “hijab” was just a cloth to cover the breast area and not the hair. I don’t really wanna point out who it is because Allah knows best, but as far as I know, that opinion is invalid. 

Generally, the idea is that people who have never/aren’t introduced to Islam will not be held accountable for their ignorance. However, there is the notion that everyone will be exposed to it in some way or form in his/her lifetime. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DCbtkeqwaY

I’m sorry this is late, but for future reference, STAY HYDRATED. I drink a gallon of water between sundown and dawn. And eat a ton of good for you food-- whole grains, protein, etc. Also dua lol. 

Insha Allah the Angels have said Ameen to your dua and you’ll be returning soon ya rab! 

I’m going to try to work on being around here more, if only for myself, because writing about God helps me get closer to Him. Anyway, Jazaki Allah Khayr :) 

Another good deed opportunity and another cause that hits close to my heart. People come to the clinic all the time with healthcare needs and no way to pay for access to them. The saddest stories I've heard are ones where people knew their condition was progressive but had no way to pay for the cost of treating it. Al-Shifa gives FREE primary healthcare to those in need, and they need help to keep it free! www.launchgood.com/al-shifa

The ease is coming. You just have to be willing to wait for it and not get discouraged. 

Waalaykom assalaam :) It was good alhamdulilah! I was working, so I didn't get to see him as much as I would have liked to, but alhamdulilah. I'll tell you a story since I'm never on here anymore for those of you who ask me for some positivity. My dad has always had an aversion to going to the Haram and Mecca/Medina in general. I've never seen him miss a prayer no matter where we are masha Allah. I remember once when we were young and in Disney World, it began to pour rain, and baba couldn't find a place to pray. So he prayed outside, in the rain, with a poncho as a rug. Anytime I go to him with a verse of the Qur'an asking him something about it, I only need to say the first two words, and he finishes the recitation for me and tells me where it is in the Qur'an. When I first started studying Islam, he was the only person I was comfortable discussing religion with. These are more quantitative gauges of religion, but my dad is always someone I've aspired to be like, religion wise, masha Allah. No one has ever or will ever treat me as well as he does Alhamdulilah. Since I first went to Mecca, I've been pushing that he come with me. Asking, inquiring, then begging, pleading. For years. But something was holding him back, and I was never sure of what it was. He just wasn't into it, and I was beginning to accept that. Last March, I was doing my circumambulations (tawaaf) at umrah, and I was texting my dad telling him I wished he was with me. One of my teachers was being pushed in a wheel chair next to me, and when he saw me crying, I told him that I just wished my dad could be with me. So he told me to make baba a video of the kaaba, of all of my friends and I doing tawaaf, and telling them how much I wished he was with us.Fast forward to December--that same year--and there I was, meeting my dad, in the last place I thought he would be, in the mosque of the Prophet (pbuh). He smiled at me and said, "Did you ever believe I'd come?" As my parents get older, my heart breaks for not loving them more when I was younger, for not taking care of them, and for fighting them. But sometimes we have to go through some bad to get to the good. And I'm so, so thankful alhamdulilah. Don't give up on your duas just because they aren't answered the first time, or the second time, or the hundredth time. Because they'll be answered eventually, and when they are, you'll be glad you waited :)

But my solace continues to be You, ya Allah. Because nothing and no one can fill my heart if You are missing from it.