Dear Mirabelle:

You are in a very difficult situation because you “live in a Muslim family and a Muslim circumference”-

to be rejected by your family and society is very, very difficult for any individual. We need to be accepted, to be liked, to be acknowledged and interacted with-

There is a famous poem starting with:

“No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.”

Neither is a woman, or child. You wrote that you “Don’t know what to do!”- I don’t know either, what to possibly suggest to you. I don’t expect your family to reject Islam as well, following your lead. If they persist in punishing and ostracizing you, isolating you, then I imagine the only solution, if you are to continue with your beliefs and practices, is to move away.

anita