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By Abir Mohammad
Azhar has built his life on certainty. A devout Muslim training to be a teacher, he is on the cusp of the future he has always been promised: a stable career, a wife, and a life defined by faith and duty.
Then he meets Rahim. Openly gay and estranged from his family, Rahim has already lost everything Azhar is trying to protect.
Certain it is his responsibility to help, Azhar sets out to guide Rahim back to Islam. But what begins as an act of faith slowly becomes something neither of them expected. The lines between guidance and longing begin to blur, pulling them into a connection neither of them can deny between belief and desire, identity and expectation, love and consequence.
Because to choose each other may mean losing everything else.
We Can’t Be Friends is an intimate, urgent story about faith, Queerness, and the cost of living truthfully in a world that demands you choose.
Content warnings: References to homophobia and physical assault