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ANSWER: You must give zakat on whatever cash you have in your possession now and all the gold, even the gold that you wear (if it reaches the nisab of 85 gms or more) and all the investments. The date of zakat doesn’t change just because you turned some of the cash into investments. You […]

QUESTION: In Ramadan my mom makes iftar and im really hungry so i sit and eat for some time and then pray maghrib in home with my brother or sometimes alone and skip prayer of maghrib only because im eating. is it permissible?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan

04 Feb

ANSWER: No! Eat a date, a few things to satiate your hunger a bit, go pray in the masjid and come back and eat.

QUESTION: I live 5 minutes from an established Masjid, but a new one is opening just 2 minutes away. This new Masjid is being built specifically due to personal disputes and community division. Given the Sunnah of attending the nearest Masjid, am I obligated to switch to the closer one, or should I continue attending the original Masjid to avoid supporting a division based on discord?

Rulings on mosques

04 Feb

ANSWER: Its not an obligation to pray in the nearest masjid, you can pray anywhere you like (imam’s recitation, convenience etc)

QUESTION: I saw in a facebook post once that petting or touching cat with the foot is haram as the Prophet Muhammad disliked it very much and he forbade others to do so. I tried looking for this hadith but couldn’t find it anywhere. Does any hadith like that exist which mentions petting or touching cat with foot is haram?

Innovations

04 Feb

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and there’s no such hadith!

QUESTION: This girl showed me her painting& asked for my opinion. I said smthng like “wow” (in my mind i was like wow that is extremely ugly) but i didnt say it was nice so i dont lie nor did i say mashallah (i forgot) then subhanallah water spilt on her painting and it was ruined. she accused me of giving evil eye. Similar scenarios happened. When they do, what do i do?

Jinn, Witchcraft, Black Magic and the Evil Eye

03 Feb

ANSWER: Tell her that you said that out of shock of how ugly that painting was and that you could not have given her an evil eye at all

QUESTION: I make music knowing it’s totally haram, I make deliberately because of not having job and necessity, but I pray, i try to don’t miss prayer, I am new muslim, living in Hindu family,they don’t know I am Muslim.

Jobs, Sports, Entertainment and Music

03 Feb

ANSWER: Music is haram and you cannot earn from it! If you leave something for the sake of Allah, Allah will replace it with something much better than what you had left for His sake! Have complete faith and reliance on Allah & have the best hope in Him because Allah is as His servant […]

QUESTION: I have heard that if I pray isha with jama i will get the reward of praying half the night is this true . If so then will I still get the reward if I miss a raka or two

Prayer

02 Feb

ANSWER: Yes, you will get the reward because you “prayed” isha in congregation! Of course the reward is not as full as someone who had prayed it all with the imam.

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