QUESTION: My mom doesn’t let me buy a motorcycle. Am I sinful if I still go and buy it with my own money ?

Fiqh of the family
25 Oct

ANSWER: I don’t know the circumstances of your situation, your age, the reason she is refusing and how dangerous this is.

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QUESTION: Did my mother and I inadvertently commit a sin by missing the Asr and Maghrib prayers while accompanying my brother on a house-hunting trip, which was only feasible after Dhuhr prayer?

Prayer
24 Oct

ANSWER: Of course! Abandoning prayer is a major sin.  You could have prayed anywhere outside on time.

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QUESTION: There are ways of stopping the armpit hair from growing permanently, using lasers and heat. Does using these count as cauterization, thus excluding us from being among the 70.000+ people who’ll enter Jannah without accountability?

Halal/Haram Matters
24 Oct

ANSWER: No, this is not cauterization and no problem in doing so.

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QUESTION: Sheikh, is it more virtuous to pay for someone to go for umrah or to feed the poor?

Charity, Hajj and Umrah
24 Oct

ANSWER: Feeding the poor.

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QUESTION: Some say that you should recite the verse of sujood at tilawah silently because if others hears the verse, they should also do prostration. Is this true?

Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran
24 Oct

ANSWER: No. It’s not mandatory for the person who is reciting it to offer it but it is a highly recommended sunnah. If he offers it, it is sunnah for those listening to him to offer it as well but it is not mandatory.

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QUESTION: Sometimes it happens that my grandma hurts me to the core that i cry badly and complain to Allah tala or my friend about it. will it erase my good deeds i gained by obeying and taking care of her?

Backbiting, Character and Morals
23 Oct

ANSWER: Yes (if you complain to any human being as this is backbiting).

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QUESTION: I am trying my best to find halal jobs and apply to wherever I can but if I don’t get a call back or hired and my only option is a riba-based bank, then what should I do? My father works there and said he will get me the job there if I don’t have any other option. My parents are non-Muslim and they saying I have to work there and if I don’t then I will be kicked out and on the street. What to do?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
23 Oct

ANSWER: It is not permissible to apply for a job in a conventional riba based bank no matter what the circumstances are.

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QUESTION: I recently learned a sunnah of walking up the stairs by saying allahuakbar and down the stairs saying subhannallah so my question is how many times do we say this? (Do we say according to the number of steps we take?)

Innovations, Supplications
23 Oct

ANSWER: No, this applies only to traveling and going up and down mountains or hills.  Doing it while going up and down the stairs would be bid’ah.

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QUESTION: Is it kufr or shirk to say that the Prophet (salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam) is hathir nathir without believing that he has ‘ilm al ghaib or that he controls or oversees the universe or a part of it?

Shirk and its different forms
23 Oct

ANSWER: Giving him such attributes means that you believe that he sees everything and he is present everywhere!  How could this not be shirk? 

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QUESTION: While eating, elders say that the left hand must not touch the food at all. Even though we eat with right hand, but sometimes we use both hands to break bread or meat. Is it true that the left hand cannot even touch ur food to help?

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Innovations
22 Oct

ANSWER: What they say is incorrect.

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