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Well, I went and did it. \u00a0I started a page on Facebook for offering Islamic advice. \u00a0I hemmed and hawed and went back and forth in my mind about it. \u00a0Who am I, after all, to offer advice? \u00a0I\u2019m just your basic Muslim housewife living in the \u2018burbs, trying to take care of my family and not burn the cookies. \u00a0Why should I open my piehole and tell people how to live their lives?<\/div>\n
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Well, in a real sense I\u2019ve actually been doing it for quite a while unofficially. \u00a0I used to teach a class for ladies on Islam in the virtual world of Second Life and inshAllah will do so again soon. \u00a0I was writing for Islamicanswers.com before I had a major pre-partum depression \/ anxiety episode and dropped off the face of the world for a while. \u00a0I get occasional e-mails even now from FB friends, or friends of friends who have happened to see a comment on a status update, asking me about their specific situation. \u00a0I used to hang around at Yahoo answers. \u00a0So I\u2019ve been writing back and forth with people for quite a long time.<\/div>\n
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I feel like there\u2019s a real need for practical advice. \u00a0Advice that \u00a0is from the Qur\u2019an and Sunnah, yes, but advice that is compassionate and realistic. \u00a0So often, someone needs help and gets a cut-and-paste fatwa or stern advice that does not take into account that person\u2019s spiritual state, life situation, and emotional needs. \u00a0You and I could give someone the exact same advice, but if you address it in a soft way, with compassion, showing the steps to be taken to achieve a goal, you\u2019ll leave that person feeling much better and more able to act than I would if I just say \u201cHaraam alaik, knock it off, get over yourself\u201d. \u00a0People don\u2019t just want advice, they want to know they are being heard. \u00a0<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0In many cases, they know what the right thing to do is. \u00a0They just want someone who is not emotionally involved to give them some validation or just a shoulder to cry on. \u00a0This is what I hope to offer and I pray that I can help my brothers and sisters in Islam, and of course any non-Muslim people who need advice as well.<\/div>\n
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