Sheikh, I still want to be muslim. I do believe in Allah but sometimes I don’t know what happens. If I turn to Allah again and become practicing, how will I know that Allah is with me or He has forgiven me?

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners
26 Jan

You can’t know that unless you remain steadfast on Islam and practice it until you die!

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I used to be enthusiastic about being a muslim but now I get strange thoughts like why should I follow Islam and how do I know it’s the right path. Also I think about why does Allah punish us if He has given us freewill. When I open the Quran for reading, I don’t know I feel strange and I close it. I am afraid, I feel blank in Salah. What should I do?

Apostasy
26 Jan

This is pretty serious and you are in great danger of turning into an apostate and leaving the fold of Islam! No Muslim can reach such a stage unless he has brought it upon himself or herself through the material they watch or the people they talk to! If you are still interested in remaining […]

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After wudhu or whilst prayer I sometimes get a feeling from my back passage, it does not seem like passing wind but more like a bubble popping. Is my wudhu still valid?

Purity
24 Jan

Ignore this feeling unless you hear a sound or smell of an odor proving that you had passed wind.

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My mother lives all alone ,she is seventy years old (approximately), suffering from severe osteoporosis, ,blood pressure.she has no son and my father passed away long ago.she can hardly move or stand In her old age there is frequent passing of urine every now and thenbecause of inability to move and specially in winter,she cannot keep herself paak. She is afraid of azaabe qabr.is it forgiven?

Purity
24 Jan

Allah says: fear Allah to the best of your ability. Allah also says: Allah doesn’t burden a soul beyond what it can bear. If she wears diapers and she tries her best to change it for every prayer and perform wudhu and pray on time, there is no sin on her at all. If it […]

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A brother committed zina and had two children from that. He has now married the sister he committed zina with. Can the children he had with her now be attributed to him? and can they inherit from him according to the strongest opinion?

Illegitimate children & Lost property
24 Jan

The majority of scholars say that this is not possible as they were born out of wedlock!

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A brother works in an American grocery store that sells alcohol and pork. He does not sell or stack the products but he puts them in a bag for the customer when they buy from the store. Is this brother under the curse of Allah?

Jobs
24 Jan

Yes, indeed he is.

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There is a practice of covering the feeding bottle of children with a cover or cloth in order to avoid evil eye… Is this allowed???

Other
24 Jan

This is baseless!

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‘Allhahuma inne aothu bikalimatilahi tamha wamin kulli shaytanin wahama wa min kullin ayn el lama’. Sheikh, is this dua authentic?

Supplications
24 Jan

Yes, it is an authentic dua.

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my sister has got khula during her mensus period and she did not started her iddah still as some one told her not to get iddah because she got khula during her mensus time. kindly give the correct solution for this and number of days of iddah for khula.

Waiting Period of widow or divorcee
24 Jan

Her iddah is one monthly cycle.

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Sheikh if a Muslim forgot to say Rabbana Wa lakal-Hamd in Salaah while praying behind imam or alone .then what should he do.?

Prayer
24 Jan

If he was alone, he must perform sujood assahu. If he is praying behind the Imam, there is nothing for him to do as the Imam carries his mistakes as long as he entered with the Imam from the first Rakah and the mistake is not a pillar.

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