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Practical help for real situations — and honest signposting for what we are not qualified to handle.

If you are in immediate danger, do not wait for us. In Norway call 112 for police and 113 for an ambulance. If you are somewhere else, call your local emergency number. If you are unsafe at home, a krisesenter (crisis centre) will take you without an appointment and without charge. Nothing on this page is a substitute for that.

What this page is

Most people arrive here in the middle of something — a marriage that has gone quiet, a decision about a proposal, money that will not stretch to the end of the month, a child who has started asking questions you were not ready for. You are not looking for an article. You are looking for somewhere to start.

So this page does two things: it says honestly what we can help with, and it says where to go for the things we cannot.

What we can help with

Thinking a decision through

Marriage, a move, a career change, how to handle family pressure. Not a ruling — a way of laying the question out so it becomes possible to answer.

Learning something properly

Recitation, prayer, the meaning of what you are reading. Structured material rather than scattered videos.

Practical planning

Household budgeting, saving without riba, planning for a wedding or a child. Ordinary problems, taken seriously.

What we cannot help with, and will not pretend to

We are not a fatwa service, a counselling service, a legal service or a crisis line. When a question needs a scholar, a therapist, a lawyer or emergency services, the honest answer is to say so.

“Ask those who know, if you do not know.”

Qur’an 16:43 — the instruction is to ask the right person, not the nearest one.

Rulings on marriage, divorce, inheritance, oaths — speak to a qualified scholar who can hear your full circumstances. These answers turn on detail, which is exactly what a website cannot see.
Mental health, grief, trauma, addiction — your fastlege (GP) can refer you, and that referral is confidential.
Debt you cannot service, or a legal dispute — in Norway, free debt counselling is available through NAV (gjeldsrådgivning).
Abuse, coercion, or fear of someone in your household — a krisesenter, or 112.

Where to go next

If nothing above fits, write to us and describe the situation in your own words. A real person reads every message, and if we are the wrong people we will say so and try to point you somewhere better.

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