We’ve all been there. That situation where our parents are displeased with us for choosing to study a subject other than Medicine or Engineering at university. Or, opposing our choice of partner who is deemed to be ‘unsuitable’ because they’re from a different culture or caste.

We seem to get through these situations one way or another. But how do we deal with practicing Islam whilst our family and friends refuse to understand our newfound ways? Exchanging friends is much easier than changing our families. So how should one tackle such a sensitive and potentially volatile state of affairs?