🔥 Sisters Rejecting Suitors Due to Race or Colour — Is it Islām or Culture? 🔥 Let’s be real: Too many sisters today claim to be upon the Sunnah but reject good, practicing brothers solely because he’s not from “their culture” or because his skin isn’t the shade they had in mind. 😬 📛 But here’s the question: Is that Islām? Or jahiliyyah dressed in abayas and jilbābs? ⸻ 🕋 The Prophet ﷺ said: “Allāh does not look at your appearance or your wealth, but He looks at your hearts and your deeds.” (Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim) So what exactly are you looking at? Because if Allāh doesn’t reject someone based on skin tone, why do you? ⸻ 💔 Sisters will say: • “He’s Bengali, my family won’t accept.” • “He’s too dark.” • “I want an Arab brother.” • “I’m Pakistani, I can’t marry a Black man.” But then they cry “where are all the good men?” Sis… you rejected him because he wasn’t from your dad’s village in Punjab. ⸻ 🧠 The Prophet ﷺ said: ❝O people! Indeed, your Lord is One, and your father (Ādam) is one. There is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab over an Arab, nor a white person over a black person, nor a black person over a white person — except through taqwā (God-consciousness).❞ (Musnad Aḥmad, 23489 – Ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī in Silsilah al-Ṣaḥīḥah 2700) That’s real Islam. And by the way — the Prophet ﷺ raised the status of Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ رضي الله عنه, a Black former slave, to be the first mu’adhdhin of Islam. He was chosen for his taqwā, not his lineage. And let’s not forget: Sawdah bint Zamʿah عليها السلام, our Mother, was dark-skinned — and the Prophet ﷺ married her, honored her, and kept her as his wife until his death. So what’s your excuse? ⸻ ⚠️ And don’t hide behind “my family won’t agree.” Yes, we respect parents. But we do not obey them in sin or racism. Allāh ﷻ says: “When it is said to them, ‘Fear Allāh,’ pride in sin takes hold of them.” (Qur’ān 2:206) ⸻ So ask yourself: Are you rejecting a suitor based on religion and character — or based on colonial leftovers and family bigotry? Because if you’re rejecting a man upon Sunnah, good manners, and upright ʿaqīdah, then wallāhi, the problem isn’t him — it’s you.