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QUESTION: In my country, on marriage day, the cousins of the bride blocks the groom on ceremony gate untill he pays them some cash. They do it out of fun. This has become a culture now, even sometimes the groom comes prepared to give them money. In my sisters marriage, eventually the groom gave money and I received a portion from that without realizing this could be wrong. Can I keep the money?

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music

25 May

ANSWER: No problem in this as long as its not something exclusively done by non muslims and there is no music, free mixing etc.

QUESTION: My sister who was a very devout and practising muslim (wore the hijab and was modest) fell in love with a christian man and had an affair with him. She left her husband and kids to be with him and has now given birth to his babies. is it haram to visit her and congratulate her for having kids in a haram relationship. will my mother get sins for supporting her and being very happy for her

Invalid Marriages

25 May

ANSWER: Of course it’s totally prohibited to wish her on her haram things because its endorsing her grave sins! She is an adulteress. If she believes that her relationship with this kafir is a legitimate marriage, she is an apostate disbeliever like him and anyone who believes that her marriage is valid to this Kafir […]

QUESTION: At school, I don’t have the space to pray.So I go to the nearest mosque on my lunch break to pray dhuhr as soon as it starts.But I don’t have the time to wait for the jama’a as I’d miss my next class, so I pray seperately, on my own. Sometimes the jama’ah starts while I’m still praying on my own, is it permissible to continue praying? I also don’t know how to pray in congregation correctly yet

Prayer

25 May

ANSWER: If you are a female, no problem in praying on your own even if the jamah starts because its not mandatory on women to pray in the masjid in congregation.

QUESTION: When I’m offering Salah and the surah I recite after surah fateha has a sajdah in it (e.g. surah Alaq), do I perform sajdah right away and then get back up and go for the rukuh or do I offer prayer like I always do and after saying assalamualaikum wa rehmatullah (complete in the Salah), I stand up and do sajdah separately? Please guide.

Prayer, Reading/Reciting the Quran

25 May

ANSWER: You do it immediately (if you wish, since doing it is not mandatory) and then go to ruku and continue the prayer. You must not do it after the prayer is over as the time has passed for it.

QUESTION: My question is about the delay in my earnings. Alhamdulillah, i work as a freelancer, i got a job in a company where i work as a content writer hourly based. After first 5-6 days of Ramadan i got no work neither from company nor any individual project. I’m so worried please advice what to do

Jobs

25 May

ANSWER: Be patient and think positively of Allah and rizq will come your way as long as you are doing your best and looking.

QUESTION: Sheikh did I leave Islam if I said what justice is this to Allah or you like to bother me as I face life? I repeated shahada had and have left Islam anxiety.

Apostasy

23 May

ANSWER: Yes, you have left the fold of Islam if you had said this to Allah complaining of His decree.

QUESTION: My fiancé studies in a freemixing university and gets angry when I tell her not to freemix and not to upload pictures with boys as audience. I love her very much and want to marry her. Shaykh, I’m very depressed as I don’t want her to freemix. What to do Shaykh ? My heart breaks when boys see her but I love her more than anything except my mother.

Engagement, Pre-Marital Relations

23 May

ANSWER: You are sinful for communicating with this woman as she is a non mahram to you and she is not yet your wife. You must stop all communications with her. The prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam had told us that there are 3 categories of people who won’t enter paradise and he mentioned […]

QUESTION: Sheikh, I have a question that many dirty & filthy thoughts come to my mind, I try to think or do something else, but it comes back, how do I completely prevent them from coming to my mind, I am 15 years old.

Other

23 May

ANSWER: You must ignore such thoughts as these are from Satan trying to corrupt your mind and distract you from finding the sweetness of prayers and recitation of the Quran. Try to occupy yourself with remembering Allah and learning more about Islam while surrounding yourself with righteous practicing Muslims all the time. Try not to […]

QUESTION: In college we had a function and our performance got on youtube somehow. I now do regret it, did tauba immensely but can’t remove it from there. Now I plan to counter that continuous sin with sadaqa jariyah is that ok for me to do? Like sponsor quran hafiz, set up well etc. I don’t want to ruin my grave life for that and want to minimize that sin anyhow. Deen is most important to me now.

Social Media

23 May

ANSWER: No problem.

QUESTION: Is it shirk to keep the soft copy of the photo of a deceased on a phone or PC? If a person doesn’t talk to it or address it, will it be considered as shirk? What about storing old photos or old things as memory?

Funerals, Images and image-making

23 May

ANSWER: This is not shirk. It is prohibited and sinful though.

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