QUESTION: If I do sin and my parents trust that I won’t do that sin But I do that without them knowing Is it betrayal with them? 

Fiqh of the family, Sins
26 Oct

ANSWER: This is betrayal with Allah!

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QUESTION: Referring to your previous question where you said that it would not be permissible to listen to such songs as it requires me to it listen to it to make it halal the method I will use does not involve me to listen to music in order to make it halal, I will only be choosing clean version songs (doesnt contain sex violence or profanity) would it be permissible to listen such songs?

Sports, Entertainment and Music
26 Oct

ANSWER: This is not permissible as it would make you want to listen to the original song.

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QUESTION: If a guy loves a girl and they don’t talk to eachother and are waiting for eachother to get married what if someday the boy gets too worried that somethings wrong can he text her best friend NOT HER her best friend who is a girl to ask her that is everything good? And won’t talk to her about anything else just that topic and end the conversation Is it permissible?

Pre-Marital Relations
25 Oct

ANSWER: This is not permissible at all as she’s a non mahram to him! It is obvious that Satan is dragging his feet bit by bit towards haram.

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QUESTION: I’ve heard we should say the dua ‘a‛oodhu bi kalimaat-illaahit-taammaati min sharri maa khalaq’ when stepping into a new place. Does ‘new place’ mean somewhere we’ve never been before, or any place we enter?

Supplications
25 Oct

ANSWER: This is when you move to a new location like a hotel room or a camping place.

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QUESTION: My mother has a female maid who walks around without Niqab or Hijab nor Abaya, just in her regular clothes. I told mom She said: “Yeah, but what do I do now? I cant just fire her (maid) or make her (maid) work with Niqab on. You guys (my brother and I) can’t be on your owns closed all day as she (maid) has to eventually come to clean. InshaAllah Allah will understand.”

Character and Morals, Halal/Haram Matters
25 Oct

ANSWER: Your mother is sinful for letting her work like this and you must avoid looking at her or being with her.  Her movement must be restricted to the area you and your brother are not in and when you leave the house, she can clean the rest of it.

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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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