QUESTION: We bought a car. The person who owned it before hung, Wooden calligraphy, name of Allah and Muhammad (ﷺ) on the rear view mirror. Now that we bought this car, what to do with this? Can I remove it and put it in the cupboard of our house. Is it okay to just keep in the house cupboard? Not to hang it for decoration or anything, because I know that’s wrong.

Halal/Haram Matters
16 May

ANSWER: Yes, you must remove it. You can dismantle it or break it beyond recognition or burn it if you want as well. 

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QUESTION: If someone prays with minimal wudu, leaves sunnah acts, wears haram clothes, or prays while needing to urinate, scholars may still consider the prayer valid. But if a person persists in these matters in every prayer, are the prayers still valid? Is there any scholarly disagreement on this issue?

Prayer
16 May

ANSWER: The prayer remains valid, though they are loosing a lot of reward that may reach 1/10th of the actual prayer!

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QUESTION: It’s been more than 11 yrs since my husband has almost stopped praying except for Jummah and during Ramadan. Have advised him many times. Have asked for a divorce but he doesn’t want to. He lives in my apartment. Is it permissable to kick him out or go to court to divorce him?

Fiqh of Marriage, Prayer
16 May

ANSWER: Yes, you should have done that long time back.

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QUESTION: Is there any person who won’t go to either hell fire neither paradise?

Paradise and Hell
16 May

ANSWER: No.

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QUESTION: While shaving my public hair down there, I start bleeding on the private part the external part, is it najis or is bleeding from the inside coming out of the private part only najis?

Purity
15 May

ANSWER: 1. This is not najis. Only what comes out from inside the private parts is najis

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QUESTION: If the person I’m talking to starts talking about fortune telling, and I don’t interrupt them so as not to seem rude, and then at the end I simply say that it’s all nonsense and I don’t believe in such things, does this fall under the hadith about those who go to fortune tellers? Does it nullify my prayers?

Jinn, Witchcraft, Black Magic and the Evil Eye, Shirk and its different forms
15 May

ANSWER: It can nullify your prayers for listening to him without interrupting him.

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QUESTION: I saw your video about women’s prayer where you said that they Should cover their whole body except their face and hands during prayer. What about the forearms? What if some or all of the area of the arm between the elbow and the wrist is uncovered? Will the prayer be valid?

Prayer, Women clothing
15 May

ANSWER: Of course not! Hand means from fingertips till wrist! Below that is called arms and not hands! The arms MUST be fully covered (till the wrists)!

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QUESTION: Sahih al-Bukhari 1010 mentions that Umar (RA) sought rain through Al-Abbas (RA). Does this hadith prove tawassul is permissible in Islam? Is this considered bid‘ah or a valid practice according to scholars?

Shirk and its different forms, Supplications
15 May

ANSWER: Omer may Allah be pleased with him could have sought the waseelah from our prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam if this was permissible as he is way better than Al Abbas, though he did not! This tells you that he wasn’t asking waseelh through Al Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, rather […]

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QUESTION: What did the Prophet ﷺ use to recite before making dua? I heard tht one shuld begin wth sana,then send salutations upon Prophet ﷺ, & then present his/her own supplications. I would like to know what th Prophet ﷺ himself used to say as sana before starting his dua.

Prayer and Duaa, Supplications
14 May

ANSWER: Yes, he used to offer salutation upon himself as well. 

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QUESTION: Shaykh, this is the follow up regarding the inheritance of my grandfather. Both of his wifes (at different timelines) died before my grandfather. So, my question being: what will happen to the grandmothers’ 1/8?

Inheritance
14 May

ANSWER: If they died before your grandfather, they have no share in his wealth. It is distributed between his offspring. 

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