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They could just go to their doctor. Most recovered alcoholics don't go to rehab.

I don't believe this. At a rehab center they would give you a different drug to manage withdrawal. For example, they give alcoholics benzos. But they don't give them more booze.

I think to become a proper proper sheikh it would be best to go to an Islamic University and you should know Arabic. Because if you are a sheikh people are going to ask you very deep questions that you can't answer without knowing Arabic. BUT, you can still go out there and do your thing. Ammar Nakshawani doesn't have a turban, nor does Khalil Jaffer or Qassem Soleimani or many others. I think you can become a learned Shia, and still serve Islam in a great and meaningful way. What to do? That depends on what your gifts are. Are you a good speaker? A talented artist? An engineer? A sharp businessman? Take what you have and use that.

I agree. People have less class than they used to in the past. Even politicians are openly unprofessional. I guess it's a consequence of becoming worse people and disregarding Allah's laws more and more. The things that are okay now, would have gotten you ostracized even by progressives 20 years ago.

He will have special abilities. He will be so intelligent and knowledgeable that geniuses will be like cattle in comparison to him. His iman will be so strong that all he has to do is shout "Allahu Akbar" and mountains will crumble. And he is also perfect in akhlaq. So if a person like that is in charge, we will see a powerful and just figure crush the oppressors of the Muslims. Israel? Done. France harassing hijabis? History. America leeching the Middle East dry? No more. And he will use his abilities and grace to establish khair in this world. Islam will grow. There will be a mosque on every street. The average person will be as knowledgeable as a sheikh. To answer your question: We don't believe he is inactive. He is working behind the curtain, and we won't know the extent of what he did until he appears. For all we know he could have prevented countless wars and saved countless lives. And while the religion is perfected, we the Ummah have not implemented it perfectly. Judaism is actually true, it is the teachings of the true Prophet Musa (عليه السلام). But look at the Jewish ummah. And look at us and how we are so disappointing. Why is the Imam hidden for all this time? Well if we're Sunni then why hasn't Allah allowed the Imam to be born for all this time? In either case, Allah who is the Most Wise and Most Knowledgeable does not see it fit to have an Imam take charge right now. And you could also compare him to the Prophets who are alive today. Why isn't Nabi Isa (عليه السلام) active if he's alive? Why not Nabi Khidr (عليه السلام) or Nabi Elias (عليه السلام)? There's all these problems and they are so capable, why don't they just come out and take charge? And what have they been doing for all of these thousands of years?

W/S If you have good intentions and repented then I don't see an issue. If Hurr (رضي الله عنه) was blessed with the highest stations after opposing Imam Hussain (عليه السلام), then what's stopping you from attaining His mercy and forgiveness? Allah is very generous.

Are you prepared to accept a child if the woman falls pregnant? I know many people who were conceived accidentally.

Just act on what you know. Avoid haram and makruh, and act on wajib and mustahab. By the way, are you Abdul Hadi?

It's funny. We follow the Imams and take them as role models, yet they didn't curse them. If anyone had a right to curse Aisha it would be Imam Ali (عليه السلام). Yet even after she waged a literal war against him, he did not curse her. In fact he was respectful and polite. Are we upset with them? Yes. Very much. But we must have class. YOU FOLLOW THE IMAMS AND DO WHAT THEY DID, BEWARE OF YOUR PERSONAL OPINIONS

Thank you and thank you to those who have prayed, I truly do appreciate it. He was not on medication. Yes taking him to a professional is the most obvious thing, and others have said that too. But I'm not sure how. In my culture there's a stigma around mental disorders. My parents don't even know (or want to know) he's autistic. They do know something is up with him, but my dad said to not bring this up with him because it will negatively affect him. He kind of does have a point because in the country I'm from, NOBODY will give their daughter to an autistic guy. You have to hide it. But at the same time he still needs help. I will still try, though.

Though, you know. These scientific miracles aren't the main reason I'm a Muslim. It's a bonus for me. And when you ask a convert why they converted, they don't usually bring up this. Usually people convert due to matters of philosophy, morality, sociology, linguistics, history, ethics, spirituality. Me personally, I follow the Imams because of their extremely impressive character traits. There is nobody like Hussain, there is nobody like Ali. Had they been born 1000 years earlier nobody would have believed they existed. They would have been myths. Nobody would think Karbala happened. Nobody would think someone like Muawiyah could be real. If you'd bring up Imam Reza they'd tell you there's no way that could have happened. But it's all there in secular history books.

I don't think this is entirely fair, but at the same time I neglected to mention that Imam Jafar as-Sadiq (عليه السلام) died in the year 765. In order to be more satisfactory to curious people like you, we would need to document his scientific statements, and contrast that with when it was "officially" discovered. This would demonstrate that this man had a special access to this knowledge that lends credibility to his divinity. Of course, I can't do it myself properly but here are some examples: Basic forms of germ theory were proposed by Girolamo Fracastoro in 1546 In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus detailed his radical theory of the Universe in which the Earth, along with the other planets, rotated around the Sun. William Harvey said that the heart was a pump in 1628 The earth being a magma ocean that dried wasn't by one person. Descartes came up with the rough ideas (secretly), but it was Georges-Louis Leclerc in 1778 who suggested that the that Earth originated as a fiery globule—blasted off the Sun by a comet impact. As this molten Earth orbited the Sun, it gradually cooled over epochs, forming a solid crust. I think he did know these details, but of course he can't drop that on the heads of ancient men who needed things to be simplified. And how could he even know about microorganisms and their general traits, that is the notable part. Light being a substance is a matter of classification and definition. It's not on Wikipedia because it would take years of work for someone to find and select all relevant text, organize them, compile them, translate them (so much has not been translated), then publish it in a multi-volume book THEN publish it on Wikipedia. I think people will do it eventually but you cannot understate how much work it would take. A lot of this information isn't on the internet. There is currently a project to demonstrate an Imam's medical knowledge. But it will not be in English, it will be done by a team, and it would be many volumes of books. And also, the Imams are destined to be oppressed and overlooked until Imam Mahdi, the final Imam, appears. Interestingly one of his roles is to significantly increase scientific knowledge and usher in an advanced age such that people of his era will look at us as if we were cavemen.

[I am posting this on behalf of a brother] Salam, I hope you are doing well. I wanted to share with you the strange case of my brother. I hope your insights can help us. My younger brother was the golden child of the family. As a teenager he was wiser than his dad. He was outgoing and really funny. He was very considerate and respectful. And he had very strong principles and was honest. Even though he was autistic, he had everything under control. He had it more together than neurotypicals. I think autism is a double edged sword and he definitely learned to wield it to his advantage. He was a great son, a great brother, and a great friend And he was a straight up holy man, an amazing representative of Islam. He had a firm grip on political science, religion, history. He was smarter than 50 year old men and had more sense in his pinky finger than they do in their entire body. If you met him you really would have loved him, he was everyone's favorite. People who only met him once or twice would remember him and ask about him a decade later. He was an amazing person. He had elite levels of iman and akhlaq. But then suddenly, out of nowhere, he deteriorates at about the age of 17. I think late 17. He deteriorates in every single area of life. He gains 100+ lbs, he loses his mind, and he becomes less moral. If I had to describe how he is now, I would say he's like he got into a car accident and got brain damage. He always has a blank vacant look on his face. He became extremely introverted, even cutting himself off from his best friend. He has become incredibly stupid. I once argued with him for 40 minutes, in vain, about why he should WEAR A SEATBELT. We spent 3 years trying to persuade him that starving yourself to lose weight is bad. He has no sense. It's like he has the mind of an 11 year old. Which is disheartening because not too long ago he was smarter than 50-year-old men. He went from adoring his family to being extremely disrespectful to us. No manners. He acts like we're not even there. He only talks to us when he wants something. But his special interest is cats so he only acts decently with his pet. He will come in through the front door, ignore and walk past his family, and greet his cat. He will buy gifts for his cat, be kind to his cat, be considerate to his cat, but not show a shred of adab towards his family. He is as considerate as a brick. He will use the most twisted logic to avoid helping people, he only helps people when he's forced to. And when he's forced to help he will hold it over your head and call you ungrateful. An example of his logic: A homeless man approaches him and asks for half of his sandwich, telling him he hasn't eaten in 3 days. My brother would say "No, if I give you half of my sandwich I would be hungry. You're homeless so you're used to being hungry, so you shouldn't get half. What? Don't say I'm inconsiderate and selfish! You're the inconsiderate and selfish one for wanting me to be hungry!" I wouldn't say he's evil, he's just nothing. He wouldn't hurt you, but he definitely wouldn't help you. Religious wise, he became the kind of person who twists things to suit his liking. And he developed these ideas stupid and ridiculous ideas. Such as: There is no advantage to zuhd. No one does anything good, they only do it for the reward or since they enjoy it. You don't know that people like Khamenei and Bahjat are good, they could have been pretending. You should only aim for the bare minimum. Our mom never made any sacrifices for us, because she enjoys housework. When I show him narrations he will twist them or roll his eyes. He is such an adabsiz. He never talks about Islam anymore. The strange thing is that it's like he's become an entirely different human. He's not a deteriorated version of himself. No, he is a completely different being. There is no trace of the old him. I get that over time people change for better or for worse, but short of stroke or brain damage victims, I have never heard of anyone changing like this. You might be screaming at the screen "Dude he's autistic, cut him some slack. You just described a lot of autistic people." But you have to believe me when I say there was NO TRACE of any of this previously. How can such autistic symptoms suddenly manifest at the age of 17? Have you ever heard of level 1 autists abruptly act like level 2? And how can anyone plummet in every.single.area. of life? His personality, his appearance, his mind. It's all totally different. When we change, we become better or worse VERSIONS of ourselves, we don't literally become different humans. How can someone so smart become so stupid? How can someone so considerate become so inconsiderate? No consideration. No class. He will bang and stomp while everyone is asleep. He will turn the lights on in your room and wake you up to ask a simple question ("Have you seen my shoes?"). I don't know how many times he has turned the lights on a sleeping person and made a ruckus. When I try to tell him anything, he becomes extremely defensive and argumentative. But the annoying thing is that he naturally has very good debating skills. Like if you heard his case for not wearing a seatbelt, you may change your mind. He uses his powers of debate and speech to justify his insanity. And he has the worst attitude as an autistic person. Autistic people are constantly fine-tuning their social skills to adapt to this world. But he refuses to adjust himself in any way. He refuses to try or acknowledge anything is off. He doesn't think there's anything wrong with him. He's like "Yeah maybe I changed for a little bit, but I'm totally fine now." He thinks I'm just a hateful enemy out to get him. The rest of the family is too polite to say anything and think he will grow out of this phase. In the rare case that someone backs me up, he will think we're conspiring against him. "You always take his side! You're just biased! I can't ignore this like everyone else. I have a very intense sense of right and wrong so this bothers me to the point of losing sleep. It really kills me. How can someone fall like this? If you saw the old him your heart would break. I tried everything. He is completely immune to criticism or advice, He rejects all input from people. And he is more stubborn than a mule. You can be nice, you can be firm, you can have a heart to heart, it doesn't matter. He is dead-set on being like an 11 year old with brain damage. And somehow he is sincere through all this. He's not malicious. He's insane and delusional. And like I said he's painfully neutral and apathetic. He is 21 now, and there is no indication that he will change. If he goes back to being 5% as good as he was in the past, that would be enough to be an elite human again. And I have no idea how any of this happened. He wasn't pressured to be an amazing person, he was naturally good natured. My best guess is trauma. It happens that around the same time he fell, the family was being tormented by a family member. The abuse was so bad that my father would weep like a child. But that wouldn't explain this drastic of a change. He claims that he (temporarily and briefly) changed because of quarantine. But that's nonsense. I also guess it could be because he was suddenly thrust into freedom. When I became 18 I did something similar. I suddenly dropped out of college and became a severely introverted neet for 4 years. BUT, I knew this wasn't right and while also delusional I still was the same person deep down. And I didn't suddenly lose my empathy and sense of morality. But this guy changed at the core of his being. My sister has another mental condition and she also abruptly changed at 18. I don't know what the issue is. I think even if he suddenly listened to everything I say, it wouldn't be addressing the core of the issue. His problematic issues are only a symptom. Is he possessed by a jinn? Is he having a psychotic episode? I don't want to say the problem is autism. He was autistic when he was good. And in fact, his autism made him a better person. I would really appreciate your input. jAk Edit: I should also mention that he doesn't know he's autistic. And my parents would discourage me from telling him or anyone. They feel like this being out there would make people label him, and it would affect his ability to get accepted for marriage. And there is some truth to that. Also, even if I told him he wouldn't believe me.