Queer Muslim Culture Is Having A Second Social Media Account To Express Who You Truly Are Without People

Queer Muslim culture is having a second social media account to express who you truly are without people who you know in real life knowing you’re queer

queer muslim culture is trying to find queer pride blogs that are accepting of religious lgbtq ppl, but for some reason they're all islamophobic/anti-semitic/antitheist. it's exhausting 😃

closeted queer muslim culture is not being out to majority of your friend group and the lgbtq+ ones talk about their religious trauma and be like "yeah i don't believe in god anymore bc i cried myself to sleep trying to believe in god" and you feel bad bc you feel like you're contributing to that trauma and you're just like T_T

It’s a bit interesting, because one of the most common arguments levied against a Muslim is that any artist who draws is committing a sin, and while it is true that Islam has a history of iconoclasm, there is a varying degree of difference in each respective school. However, alternative forms of art in the Islamic world involved calligraphy or geometry, which has been shown in plenty of Islamic architecture. It should be noted that the Qur’an never makes any reference to drawing, however Hadith narrations mention it extensively.

Regardless, the sin of drawing is not wholly acceptable and even if there are sources that make it abundantly clear about its status, some things are to be considered. Is it a permanent rule and is the chain of narration reliable?

For Sunnis, most schools hold the opinion that drawing any living being with a soul is considered a sin, thus it is impermissible to emulate God in His creation. The narration is quite popular and is found in Sahih Bukhari and narrated by Ayesha, a wife of the Prophet. While all Sunni scholars are unanimous about its authenticity, they differ in whether it is a permanent or temporary law, and some scholars do hold that due to most converts to Islam were from paganic tribes, there was a risk of returning to the roots of making idols, thus the narration forbade Muslims from depicting any living being, whether 2D or 3D. However, since this no longer seems to be the case, some scholars agree with its authenticity, but do not accept it as permanently binding. This is the most popular opinion among Maliki Sunnis (Most sunnis in North Africa). The most Conservative movements of Sunnism, like the Salafis, flat out reject 2d and 3d art of any living being.

Shi’a Muslims hold a vastly different opinion and is of the opinion that it was a temporary issue, which no longer is a concern due to the safety of the Muslim community from the paganic tribe of Quraish. The narration as told by Ayesha is not considered reliable and thus discarded by the Shi’as. An authentic narration by one of the Shi’a Imams in Al-Kafi state that drawing is permissible and that depicting any living being is not haraam as long as due deference is shown. However, like the Sunnis, the Shi’as make it clear that statue-making of any living being remains impermissible at all times.

Hey Sal, besides the Quran obviously, what books or resources would you recommend to someone considering converting to Islam?

The Succession of Muhammed by Wilhelm Madelung for a better understanding of the intra-islamic affairs from the death of the Prophet (sawas), the succession of the subsequent four caliphs, the Islamic civil wars and the the establishment of the Umayyad dynasty. This book also deals with the foundation of the partisans of Ali (a) and their influence on Islamic history and the standardization of scripture and traditions.

i follow your blog, where you often talk about Islam and your beliefs as a Muslim. through your blog, i passively learn more about the faith, and am interested in learning more from you. but i rarely, if ever, go out of my way to learn more on my own. am i a culpable non-believer? is the fact that i do not educate myself a sign of intentional rejection? i certainly cant say that i know the truth enough to reject it, but i also dont take the very clearly visible option to learn that truth.

A culpable ignorant is someone who is obstinent and chooses to be stubborn when truth was apparent to them. For example, a Christian debates me and I fully convince them that the trinity is a bunch of hogwash, but they decide to remain Christian out of stubborness- you did what you did, whatever happens is not on your hands after that.