QUESTION: I work for a grocery based delivery, where I purchase groceries and deliver for people, so i get many receipts at the end of the day. There is an app that gives rewards for uploading the receipts and later that reward can be converted into gift cards. Is the gift cards/rewards halal for me if I use those receipts?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
03 Aug

ANSWER: You are not allowed to take such rewards as you are not the owner of it. 

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QUESTION: After fard prayer, we say Astagfirullah 3 times. Is it for us to seek forgiveness for the headless moments or moments we didn’t focus in Salah?

Prayer
03 Aug

ANSWER: This is the sunnah and that is why we say it and probably it can be for whatever one was distracted from during his prayer. 

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QUESTION: If Isa nabi is a human and living in the sky how will he answer the call of nature and eat food?

Belief in the Last Day and the Signs of the Hour, Belief in the Messengers, Divine Will and Decree
03 Aug

ANSWER: This is the knowledge of the unseen and only Allah knows about it!

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QUESTION: Mu‘ādh ibn Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Whenever a woman harms her husband in this world, his wife from the Houris of Paradise says: ‘Do not harm him! May Allah destroy you! He is but a passing guest with you, and he will soon leave you to join us.'” Is this an authentic hadith?

Fiqh of Marriage
03 Aug

ANSWER: Yes

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QUESTION: If we blow on water (for ruqya), can we leave a little bit of water at the end, refill it and consider it as a bottle of ruqya without needing to blow on it again? 

Ruqyah
02 Aug

ANSWER: This is OK but the best is to make ruqya everytime on the new water for it to be more effective  QUESTION: What is Ruqyah and how one should do it?

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QUESTION: Sheikh I want to do all these things…my heart yearns for these things so badly …I eat to see mountains . I do veil & niqab .these things are handled by men .. How can I do these things..plz guide.. Kayaking Flying board Bungee jumping Roller coaster Swimming Arrow 🏹

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music
02 Aug

ANSWER: No problem in doing safe things like roller coaster, shooting arrow etc if there is no free mixing and you’re islamically dressed.  Extreme sports like bungee jumping is not recommended for men as well due to risks involved.

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QUESTION: My wife has purchased silk pillows for our bedroom, is it permissible to sleep on these as a man?

Halal/Haram Matters
02 Aug

ANSWER: This is not permissible for men if its PURE natural silk

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QUESTION: I was driving my grandfather and we were passing a graveyard. He said: “Stop here so I can recite Al-Fatiha to someone in the graveyard.” I knew that reciting Al-Fatiha is an innovation but I still stopped so he could visit the graveyard but I hoped he would also do something beneficial for the deceased like making a dua. Did I assist the sin?

Funerals, Innovations
02 Aug

ANSWER: In sha Allah you did not but you should have brought it to his attention that this is an innovation and the prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam had never done that in his life. 

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QUESTION: Can i repeat fard prayer from the beginning by breaking it if i got confused in the middle of the prayer instead of doing sujood as sahw as its conditons confuses me so much.

Prayer
01 Aug

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible.

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QUESTION: Is it true that Allah may choose to punish someone by exposing their sins to others? I sinned in the past and I feel extreme guilt and shame about it everyday as I severely regret it. I’m scared everyday that people may find out about it. How can I sincerely repent so that Allah conceals my sin? If Allah forgives me inshAllah or even if He doesnt, can I be sure that noone will find out about it?

Character and Morals, Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Sins
01 Aug

ANSWER: There are no guarantees as this is in Allah’s hands. As long as you have sincerely repented to Allah while showing deep remorse and you didn’t expose your own sins in front of anyone, Allah will keep them concealed in sha Allah 

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