Muslim and starting to doubt my religion

Exactly, it's like switch off your brain, switch off your empathy, if this 'holy' book written by primitive superstitious barbarians says something is good then it must be good, even if it means raping children. Terrifying that people think like this.

I guess Jimmy Savile was a devout Christian then?

The first thing is for you to decide whether you believe in a god, and whether you believe Allah to be the only real one.

If the answer to both of those is yes, then it's simply a case of conceding that whatever Allah has decreed must be moral, even if it is not palatable to your own sense of justice. But if you've decided that there are no gods or at least that Allah isn't one, then the logical position to take is 'I don't know', until you figure out what exactly you believe.

Also, despite what you may be told, consulting an imam, a person with an obvious vested interest in stopping people from leaving Islam, is a bad idea.

Good luck.

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If the religion isn't making you happy leave but also pray for guidance.

I don't think she's real. Shes trying to make her religion look oppressive to her. Heres are some things you haven't considered. The husband's duty is to love, clothe, provide, show care, speak softly, comfort, compliment and love his wife. He is religiously obliged to satisfy his wife in bed regardless of whether he has been satisfied himself and even after reaching orgasm. He has to respect her rights and treat her body with respect - he isn't allowed to have sex with her before foreplay, he isn't allowed to force himself onto her. He isn't allowed to engage is anal sex = bad for health, unhygienic and painful. He isn't allowed to have her sex with her during her periods. Sounds very oppressive to me.

I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any religion anymore. For me God does exist, but religion is man made and was a way to control people and society.

It's not so easy. I'd miss the community aspect of it and my family are religious. Furthermore, I believe in God. I don't think Islam makes me unhappy but SOME of the teachings and practices do. And like I said there's also some beautiful parts.

Not at all and neither do the vast majority of muslims. These type of marriages take place in a small minority of poor countries amongst a minority of uneducated people. You're not very bright are you? I'm simply debunking her claim that Islam is somehow oppressive towards her or women in general. Quite clearly it isn't if the same rules apply to men as well.

I agree that shes ignoring the real issue which is whether Islam is true or not.However you're saying that if its true then she doesnt need to worry about it being sexist.Dont you see anything wrong with that.How about if it says in the quran that its ok to kill unbelievers?By your logic thats ok because Islam is true and God said it was ok.If Islam is sexist then its evidence that its not true because a perfect God wouldnt be sexist.Its much more likely to be written by man.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence you should remember that.For example muhhameds journey to heaven on a winged horse or Jesus's ressurection.The only evidence for that claim is that somebody,we dont even know who wrote it down in a book a long time ago. whats more likely to happen the laws of the entire universe suspend themselves for an hour or that a man lies.Men have been shown to lie all the time.The laws of physics have never stopped working even for a day.

Any other Muslims that feel the same? Should I seek deeper knowledge?

I was born and raised Muslim. The faith has a lot of good things about it.

However recently, I am starting to have doubts. I'm not as religious as I used to be. Particularly being a female, I find some parts of Islam extremely sexist.

For example women have to cover up, men can take up to 4 wives, Muslim women must only marry Muslim men, underage girls are allowed to marry as soon as start puberty ,women aren't allowed to leave the house without a male relative, women will make up the majority in hellfire because they are ungrateful to their husbands , sex slaves are permissible during war, woman's testimony often counts half of a man's testimony, women inheritance half that of a man, a woman must always obey her husband etc.

But I've read up on all the above and I do appreciate some of them give good reasons as to why. But one thing I can't get over is the fact our prophet Muhammed (pbuh) married Aisha (r.a) when she was only 6 years old. The reason I've heard include those were the times it happened a lot then, She contributed to the spread of Muhammad's(pbuh) message and served the Muslim community for 44 years after his death, the marriage not being consummated until she had reached puberty at the age of nine or ten years old etc. It's really hard for me to overlook.

But seriously if some joe public did that everyone would find it disgusting. What makes it a problem for me is that men are meant to follow the sunnah of the prophet. This means it's ok for Muslim men to take underage bride. It happens a lot in Afghanistan, Pakistan etc.

I'm just starting to lose my faith a little and it is mostly to do with its attitude towards women.

"Because a perfect God wouldn't..." is just one imposing their limited and flawed understanding onto an infinitely more complex and knowledgeable being than ourselves and is therefore clearly wrong; there are some things we would expect a God to be e.g. Knowledgeable, Wise, Just, Merciful etc, but for finer details, that's pushing it. Ask the most knowledgeable Muslims on earth what does "Alif Laam Meem" mean and listen to their answer - they will all say that they do not know. Muslims recite the verses of Allah every day, yet they don't know what these letters mean at the start of surahs, so how is it that anyone could think that they know better than Allah when they already accept the fact they don't?

If 'miracles' conformed to physics, it would cease to be a miracle, so what actually is your point?

Islam isn't sexist to women..do more research. There's a reason for everything...do you know why (those things u listed above) are the way they are?

If God isnt benevolent then whats the point in worshipping him? You say you would expect God to be merciful and Just but is it just or merciful to punish people infinitely for finite crimes.The fact that God is often shown to be angry or jealous in religous books shows that humans are just projecting their emotions onto God.If god actually existed he wouldnt be so petty. Man created god not the other way around. My point was obvious. Its much more likely a man lied about a miracle that broke the laws of physics than that the laws of physics were actually broken. Weve seen men lie all time. Ive never seen a miracle occur.