Trigger Warning: frequent mentions of suicide

“How can we come to perceive something as difficult as suicide through a lens of mercy, when we don’t know our religion’s mercy in the first place?”

In our third episode of You Can Tell Us, Saba, Leen, and Rifoo discuss how our perception of Islam as Maldivians affect our understanding of suicide.

We try to break down the interaction of culture and religion, and lay out facts from Islam in regards to how it speaks of suicide. This was our humble attempt at highlighting the mercy of Allah and how we often forget to reserve judgement for the One who created us.

Disclaimer: we are not Islamic scholars, all information stated is from research of Islamic scholars and verified hadith (refer below)

Additional note from Leen:

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