Adult Children of Spiritually Immature Parents

Many adult children grow up in homes where religion is present, but emotional maturity is not. In these environments, faith can become entangled with fear, shame, performance, and control.

In Adult Children of Spiritually Immature Parents, Anika Munshi offers a compassionate and psychologically grounded guide for Muslims trying to untangle inherited religiosity from lived spiritual reality.

Through the lens of rushd, moral and spiritual maturity, this book explores enmeshment, emotional captivity, spiritual gaslighting, boundaries, grief, repair, and the return to a more integrated relationship with Allah and the self.

This is a book for those trying to understand what happens when religion and family become intertwined in ways that make differentiation feel like betrayal, boundaries feel like disobedience, and growth feel dangerous. It offers language for recognizing inherited patterns while making room for a more mature, conscious, and integrated spiritual life.

"A brave and necessary work… a lifeline for a great many readers." — Dr Omar Imady

Written by Anika Munshi

Narrated by Mariam Masroor

Foreword by Dr Omar Imady