If I understand the other answers here and the way the site is currently operating, the community and mods are making an either/or decision:

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned leave open
• If not close

I propose that the guidelines are changed, in the interests of more clearly steering the site away from the "(Islamic) counseling and agony-aunt" feel it appears to have.

These are the guidelines I propose:

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, and any personal details are not in your face, leave open

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, and personal details are in your face, close/edit/reopen (or just edit but don't leave them lying around as asked), downplaying or removing the personal aspects. As goldPseudo puts it:

  Any social problems abstracted out enough to ask "What should a Muslim do in this situation?" are probably fine.

  As a specific, this question contains a non-trivial, core Islam-related question but has far too much personal information (and angst) that should be edited out:

  

• If no non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, close

• if a counseling question looks anything like this, delete (or flag and ask a mod to delete it):

  

If I understand the other answers here and the way the site is currently operating, the community and mods are making an either/or decision:

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned leave open
• If not close

I propose that the guidelines are changed, in the interests of more clearly steering the site away from the "(Islamic) counseling and agony-aunt" feel it appears to have.

These are the guidelines I propose:

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, and any personal details are not in your face, leave open

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, and personal details are in your face, close/edit/reopen (or just edit but don't leave them lying around as asked), downplaying or removing the personal aspects. As goldPseudo puts it:

  Any social problems abstracted out enough to ask "What should a Muslim do in this situation?" are probably fine.

  As a specific, this question contains a non-trivial, core Islam-related question but has far too much personal information (and angst) that should be edited out:

  

• If no non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, close

• if a counseling question looks anything like this, delete (or flag and ask a mod to delete it):

  

If I understand the other answers here and the way the site is currently operating, the community and mods are making an either/or decision:

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned leave open
• If not close

I propose that the guidelines are changed, in the interests of more clearly steering the site away from the "(Islamic) counseling and agony-aunt" feel it appears to have.

These are the guidelines I propose:

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, and any personal details are not in your face, leave open

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, and personal details are in your face, close/edit/reopen (or just edit but don't leave them lying around as asked), downplaying or removing the personal aspects. As goldPseudo puts it:

  Any social problems abstracted out enough to ask "What should a Muslim do in this situation?" are probably fine.

  As a specific, this question contains a non-trivial, core Islam-related question but has far too much personal information (and angst) that should be edited out:

  

• If no non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, close

• if a counseling question looks anything like this, delete (or flag and ask a mod to delete it):

  

If I understand the other answers here and the way the site is currently operating, the community and mods are making an either/or decision:

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned leave open
• If not close

I propose that the guidelines are changed, in the interests of more clearly steering the site away from the "(Islamic) counseling and agony-aunt" feel it appears to have.

These are the guidelines I propose:

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, and any personal details are not in your face, leave open

• If a non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, and personal details are in your face, close/edit/reopen (or just edit but don't leave them lying around as asked), downplaying or removing the personal aspects. As goldPseudo puts it:

  Any social problems abstracted out enough to ask "What should a Muslim do in this situation?" are probably fine.

  As a specific, this question contains a non-trivial, core Islam-related question but has far too much personal information (and angst) that should be edited out:

  

• If no non-trivial, core Islam-related question can be discerned, close

• if a counseling question looks anything like this, delete (or flag and ask a mod to delete it):