>Go up to a dawah table
>criticize and disparage
>come back and accost the table again
>touch brother’s camera, complain when he verbally retaliates
>Push Zionist, anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim narratives
>get criticized, block ppl pointing it out
>be @sharghzadeh
Your cousin is non-mahram to you, and treating them like a sibling does not magically change that. This kind of normalized fitnah has ruined many marriages.
In many homes, cousins grow up together, hang out, chat freely, spend time alone, joke around, and cross boundaries, all while saying, “They’re my brother” or “She’s my sister.”
But then, a few months later, they marry each other.
So what exactly happened? Did you marry your “sibling”?
We are MUSLIMS. Learn the difference between culture and Islam. Your cousin is not your sibling in Islam. They are non-mahram, and the boundaries and interaction apply to them just as they apply to any other non-mahram.
Would you behave this way with every non-mahram? Would you freely hang out, chat privately, spend time alone, or cross boundaries with a non-mahram stranger?
Read Surah An-Nisa and learn who is actually mahram to you.
And if you are interested in your cousin and your excuse is, “He/she is just my cousin. We grew up together, lived together, and enjoyed our lives together,” then marry them. But do not spend years engaging in haram interactions and then expect your future spouse to accept it all because you conveniently labelled your cousin a “sibling.”
Your family failed to teach you and made it normal does not make haram halal.
Learn the boundaries of your Deen before your normalized “family relationships” become a source of fitnah in your own marriage.
This photo was taken in 2006 by Stephanie Sinclair. She named the girl as Ghulam Haider. Even the most ill informed expert on Afghanistan will tell you that Ghulam Haider is exclusively a male name.
This scene was created by Sinclair, this wasn’t during an engagement or during a marriage party. Sinclair told them to sit there on that cushion, with that curtain in the background, and then she took the photo.
She then made up the story, made up the names (couldn’t even come up with a female name), and then spread the news far and wide for her own personal selfish interests + aligned national interests.
She then received big awards for this photograph, because it supported the American occupation’s pretext of saving Afghan women from brutal savage Afghan men.
She was also involved in the Parwana debacle of 2021, where she helped setup a fake marriage between a man and his niece (who was a child). She then went and “saved the girl” from the evil men that were trying to destroy her, and got international coverage for it, mainly because now, their NGOs were saving helpless women from evil Afghan men after the military solution failed.
Her organization is called Too Young to Wed (TYTW). As of 2026, they are still operating in Afghanistan, but keeping a low profile.