QUESTION: If the husband is an understanding spouse and is okay with the wife not being able to do house chores or occasionally falling short in fulfilling marital obligations due to her disability, such as autism and social anxiety, is the wife considered sinful?

Fiqh of Marriage, Kind Treatment of Spouses
23 Feb

ANSWER: This is not sinful if the husband is OK with it.

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QUESTION: According to the hadith umrah in ramadan is like doing hajj in reward.. so if someone does umrah in Ramadan on behalf of a deceased will the reward be the same as doing hajj?

Fasting and Ramadan, Hajj and Umrah
23 Feb

ANSWER: Yes

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QUESTION: If a person is travelling from one country to another to their relatives house and is going to stay there for 15-20 days do they have to pray full namaz or will be it qasr even if they have all comfort of a house there.. coz here people say even if a person has all the comfort but they are travelling they don’t have to pray full namaz even if they are staying there for more than a month also

Prayer
23 Feb

ANSWER: They should pray normally when they have settled down! While they are traveling or not settled, they can shorten and combine.

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QUESTION: Sheikh if I do zikr in my mind and heart with no moving of lips is that zikr valid I mean will I get the reward?

Prayer and Duaa, Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran, Supplications
23 Feb

ANSWER: It’s mandatory to move the lips & tongue when you recite while praying, making dua, dhikr, while reciting Quran etc

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QUESTION: I have a question regarding cloud seeding. Cloud seeding is a process through which chemicals are sprayed into clouds to encourage more rainfall. This process is now widely used in Arab countries like the Emirates. Is conducting cloud seeding operations permissible to tackle water scarcity or will it be going against the idea that Allah sends down rain ?

Other
23 Feb

ANSWER: Cloud seeding is a means, and using means is permissible as long as they do not involve haram or shirk. Rain is still from Allah, and it is Allah who sends and allows it.

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QUESTION: I have a bad habit of over sharing my past and sins to anyone I get close with. But then I feel like they start ignoring me later. What should I do? What is the point of friends if I can’t even share my struggles with them?

Halal/Haram Matters, Sins
22 Feb

ANSWER: You deserve such behavior for exposing what Allah has concealed.

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QUESTION: A married couple living together with their children from previous marriage since their childhood. It’s been 20 years and the children from both sides have become adults and still they’re living together with the family. Are the children sinful as they’re not mahram?

Mahram
22 Feb

ANSWER: They’re definitely not mahram to each other and must not hang out in the same room, must not chitchat nor socialize and the girls must wear complete hijab in front of their step siblings.

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QUESTION: If my father real brother fought with words and his brother says him very bad and his wife also like you are wife slave many more . In the hadith tells that if brother does not forgive his brother in 3 days and dies he go to hell ,can you tell me that my father is sinful

Dealings and Attitudes with Relatives
22 Feb

ANSWER: There is no such thing to my knowledge that when a person dies that he would go to hell for that No doubt that fighting with one’s own brother and saying such nasty words is sinful but dying while in such a state is a major sin but not something that would put a […]

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QUESTION: Does the mahr given during nikkah belong to just the bride or the bride and her parents as well?

Fiqh of Marriage, Marriage Contract
21 Feb

ANSWER: It belongs to the bride alone.

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QUESTION: Where does it say in the Qur’an and authentic ahadeeth that we cannot defend ourselves or clarify things against our parents, if/when THEY are wrong? You said to admit and say “I am wrong”, even when we are right. Wouldn’t that be lying as well? I understand not disrespecting part but where do you or the scholars get not defending ourselves and just be silent part? Where is the daleel?

Fiqh of the family
21 Feb

ANSWER: No one says to admit your guilt to something you did not do! You don’t have to say you are wrong if you are not wrong but it is immoral and undutiful to argue with them and insist to win such an argument and make them appear wrong and defeated.  Where is the respect […]

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