QUESTION: Can i design birthday gift pack for others as this is my business?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
05 Aug

ANSWER: This is not permissible.

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QUESTION: I live in Singapore. Housing is EXPENSIVE. Govt. forcefully takes 20% of salary for housing/medical. MAJORITY of ppl can’t afford to buy/rent with their salary. Is it feasible for all these ppl to remain unmarried to avoid mortgage? This is a real issue we face. I am not asking for an easy way out, but a solution for Muslims living here.

Fiqh of Marriage, Psychological and Social Problems
04 Aug

ANSWER: They must marry when they can afford it or migrate to another country.

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QUESTION: At school, I used a metallic ruler and rub it against the table very fast and then press it against my friends to give them a burning sensation on their skin. These burns would sometimes leave marks on their skin as well. I have changed since then and I learnt about 70000 who enter Jannat without accountability, was what I did cautery and have I ruined my chance of being among the 70000?

Character and Morals, Halal/Haram Matters, Sins
04 Aug

ANSWER: No, this is not cautery but it was sinful for hurting them like this. 

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QUESTION: I live in Bangladesh.We Bengali people often say ‘ma’ (means mother ) when something unusual happens.For example if we get hurt. Sometimes I heard my parents to say it continuously when they were sick, maybe it was because they were missing their parents. So my question is, are people committing shirk by saying it like that?

Other
04 Aug

ANSWER: No, this is not shirk.

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QUESTION: Are we allowed to keep gifts that we received when we were in haram relationship, after repentance? 

Pre-Marital Relations
04 Aug

ANSWER: This is not appropriate because it would bring back memories and satan might make you fall back into that sin again 

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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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