Fiqh of the family

QUESTION: Is it a mandatory on you to give money to your dad during your teen age when he asks you. Cos I have a dad that asks me money alot while I am still schooling and feeding myself with my own money

20 Dec

ANSWER: No, you are not obliged to give him anything unless: 1- You have extra than what you need. 2- He is in real need for that 3- He is not going to use it to help your siblings or anyone else with it.

QUESTION: If a brother who is a millionaire and doesn’t want to pay his own brother’s debt( which is very little ) and instead he wants to build a mosque in his father’s name? As he thinks it is not his duty to pay his brothers debt.. Is this ok?

Fiqh of the family, Loans

27 Nov

ANSWER: That’s his choice. However, stingy people are by nature stingy and this is in their DNA and they won’t be among the successful on the day of Judgment! No Muslim who has his own flesh and blood suffering because of a tiny loan would hesitate to rush to his rescue if he has the […]

QUESTION: As we will be sinful for not obeying our parents will we be rewarded even if we do basic stuff of our parents like giving them water cutting fruits as per her/his commands etc?

Fiqh of the family, Rewards & Punishments

27 Nov

ANSWER: Yes, Alhamdulillah

QUESTION: Is it okay to say ‘on behalf of my father’ in mind or lowering the voice when I give someone anything for my dead father?

Charity, Fiqh of the family

25 Nov

ANSWER: No need to say that as what counts is your intention in your heart that only Allah knows about.

QUESTION: I checked my husbands mails which he left opened in laptop and I found Whatsapp chats and his relationships with his girlfriends 7 years earlier and we have been married since one year. I know I did a sin by checking his past life. But now by reading those chats my heart is broken, I can’t find peace due to my own doing,also my husband knows this too.i ask his forgiveness f

Fiqh of the family

24 Nov

ANSWER: This is what you brought to yourself and marriage with your own hand! It was you who opened this can of worms and it is you who will have to pay the heavy price of such a major sin. You have betrayed the trust of your husband and I don’t know if he is […]

QUESTION: My parents are not treating me and my younger brother equally especially my father. Whenever my younger brother misbehaves with me and I tell my parents they just say I am hurting them and if i choose to discipline my brother myself they use foul language to me and say me vulgar language. What should i do? If i dont talk to my brother, they’

Fiqh of the family

20 Nov

ANSWER: They will be accountable for such injustice but you will be accountable on how you treat them. Be respectful, obedient and dutiful and ignore your younger brother and have nothing to do with him until he behaves himself and respects you.

QUESTION: My parents, the other day has basically given me the ultimatum to choose between them or my husband. They want me to divorce my husband or they will disown me. This is a regular occurrence as they despise my husband. What do I do sheikh? Is this permissible? Who holds more status/value in islam?

Fiqh of Marriage, Fiqh of the family

13 Nov

ANSWER: Don’t pay any attention to what they say about your husband. Choose your husband and be good to him and Allah will hold your parents accountable on the day of judgment for their attempts to destroy your marriage like this!

QUESTION: I have a younger sister who is a few years past puberty and she does not observe the hijab. This is partly because my parents haven’t ever talked to her about the hijab at all since she was a child and when I advise them that they should teach her about the hijab as it’s important, my mother refuses and threatens me. What can I do?

Fiqh of the family, Women clothing

06 Nov

ANSWER: This is your father’s responsibility and he and your mother will be tormented on the day of judgment for failing to carry out the commands of Allah with their daughter! You have done your job by advising her. It’s your father’s responsibility to make her wear the proper islamic hijab and if he doesn’t […]

QUESTION: A woman wants to take khula from her husband because of mistreatment of her husband.. but her father is against it because he believes that it’s not allowed for woman to ask for khula until she is physically harmed by the husband. Although she tried to give her marriage a few chances from past three years for the sake of Allah and her father, the husband

Fiqh of the family, Khula

04 Nov

ANSWER: The father has no such right. If the woman has a genuine reason to take khula, she doesn’t need anyone’s consent for this.

QUESTION: If a son watches bad things in secret inside the house, are the parents sinful? (They have no idea the son is doing this)

Fiqh of the family, Pedagogy education and upbringing

22 Oct

ANSWER: If he does it behind their backs, they are not accountable for his sins.

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