Straight answers
The question you actually asked.
Most people do not arrive looking for a technique. They arrive with a question, usually in plain words, and usually one they have been given a bad answer to already. These pages answer the question first and explain afterwards, with both sources on the page.
10 answers, four to ten minutes each.
Worry and anxiety
- Does anxiety mean my faith is weak?No. Anxiety is a false alarm in the body, it happens to devout and non devout people alike, and there is no text that makes fear a sin. The Qur'an describes prophets afraid. What the tradition asks of you is what you do next, not what your nervous system did without asking you.6 minute read · draft
- How do I stop waswas?The whisper is not stopped by answering it. Every check and every reassurance makes the next one arrive sooner and louder, which is why the harder you work at settling it the worse it gets. The tradition already ruled in your favour, and the way out is a trained therapist rather than a stronger effort.7 minute read · draft
- I keep repeating my wudu and my prayer. How do I stop?There is a legal maxim written for exactly this: certainty is not removed by doubt. If you know you performed wudu and you are only unsure whether it broke, you still have wudu. The ruling is not a concession, it is the position, and it is a thousand years old.6 minute read · draft
Low mood and hard feelings
- Is depression a sin, or a sign of weak faith?It is neither. Depression is an illness with a course and a treatment, and nothing in the Qur'an or the sound Sunnah makes low mood a moral failing. Ya'qub grieved until he lost his sight and the Qur'an does not rebuke him once.8 minute read · draft
- Are antidepressants haram?No mainstream position treats prescribed medication for an illness as forbidden. The Prophet, peace be upon him, instructed people to seek treatment, and the reasoning that makes wine forbidden turns on intoxication, which is not what these drugs do.6 minute read · draft
Yourself and your limits
- Is therapy haram?No. Seeking a remedy is instructed in the sound Sunnah, and Muslim scholars were writing clinical psychology in the ninth century. What is worth being careful about is the fit of the therapist, not the permissibility of therapy.6 minute read · draft
- Why do I feel nothing in prayer any more?Because feeling is not what makes a prayer valid, and its absence is a state the tradition already has a name for. The Companions described the same alternation. What tends to be underneath it is exhaustion, low mood, or a standard set so high that missing it feels like failing.7 minute read · draft
- Is it jinn, or is it mental illness?You are not asked to choose. The tradition affirms that jinn exist and it instructs you to seek treatment, and those two sit together without strain. What causes harm is the delay: months spent going from raqi to raqi while an illness that responds to treatment goes untreated.8 minute read · draft
- I keep repenting and going back. What is wrong with me?Nothing that is not true of every human being. The sound reports say plainly that everyone errs and that the best of those who err are the ones who turn back, and one of them says the alternative to a people who sin and repent is a people who would be replaced. The cycle you are in is real, and shame is the fuel, not the brake.7 minute read · draft
Grief and loss
How these are written
The answer comes first
Every page opens by answering. If you read one box and leave, you should still have what you came for. The explanation is underneath for anyone who wants it.
Both sources, on the page
A verse or a sound report with its grading, and a named study with its authors, sitting next to each other rather than one being used to decorate the other.
Where scholars differ, we say so
These pages give no fatwa and no diagnosis. Where a question is genuinely contested they show it as contested and send you to someone who can rule on it.