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Finding My Way Back to Islam Amidst Business and Personal Struggles

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Q: I don’t know where to start from. About 11 months ago I was someone that used to pray 5 times a day. I was always reading up the seerah and different aspects of Islam and reflect and ponder on life. At that time I found my self increasing in knowledge and finding answers to life in an Islamic perspective. As all humans do, I slipped back in to my old life of drugs alcohol and girls and gambling. 10 months ago I came across a girl and we started dating. Slowly we started gambling together. We lost her entire savings and then we lost a loan that we took out on her name because I was not getting accepted. 26 thousand pounds. Life turned upside down. She is not actively getting closer to Islam. We both work in the same field of recruitment. So we decided to open a business to make the money back. The business failed. We both went back to paid jobs. Now we have found another partner and three of us will run this business once again in sha Allah it works. I am extremely depressed and have really bad anxiety. Life is going down by the day and I am having suicidal thoughts though I know it is haram. I think I am psychotic as some things I do are quite extreme. How can I get closer to Islam with her in my life as a business partner. (She drinks and does drugs too) I need to make the money back as this is making me feel really guilty. Please help me in someway before I do something I cannot reverse.

Bismillaah

A: If you are not yet in a nikaah then make nikaah with this woman and then you may continue with your business.

And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)

This answer was collected from MuftiOnline.co.za, where the questions have been answered by Mufti Zakaria Makada (Hafizahullah), who is currently a senior lecturer in the science of Hadith and Fiqh at Madrasah Ta’leemuddeen, Isipingo Beach, South Africa.

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