QUESTION: If the family of my uncle (brother of my father) comes (including his wife-my aunt, his little daughters), can I sit with them in gathering or I just do SALAM and leave them. My aunt is in probably 30s. So I am asking with regard to her as she is a non-mehram for me

Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram
21 Jul

ANSWER: This is not permissible as Islam promotes and mandates segregation between non mahrams

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QUESTION: Do dead people benefit from their own recitations of the quran if someone listens to those recitations?

Rewards & Punishments
20 Jul

ANSWER: Yes, beneficial knowledge that is shared, is rewarded even after death.

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QUESTION: I attach the khimar to the side of my overcoat with clips so that my chest area is covered on all sides. Because when standing sideways, my chest area may be visible in certain prayer positions. At the end of the prayer, I noticed that the clip had come loose. Is my prayer valid?

Prayer, Women clothing
20 Jul

ANSWER: If you are wearing something like a dress and abayah on top of it and you are covering it with the khimar, your prayer is valid

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QUESTION: As non arab Muslim reading sunnah hadith dua or adkar using transliteration. Is it valid toread every single exact word individually while sometimes combining some (example, minal , alimal or fatiras) but sometimes not.

Supplications
20 Jul

ANSWER: Using transliteration for dua or athkaar is permissible if you can’t read Arabic, but you must strive to learn how to say it properly by hearing it from Arabs and repeating behind them

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QUESTION: If a person is used to fast prophet Dawood aleyhissalam fasting, is he allowed to fast in addition to it Ashura day or for example the 10 first days of Dhul Hijja? The consequence would be that this person would fast 16 days in Muharram or 20 days in Dhul Hijja. Is is permissible to combine ?

Fasting
20 Jul

ANSWER: This is not permissible if he is going to be exceeding more than half of the month.

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QUESTION: A person when he was teeneger when he gets major ritual impurity he didn’t used to take ghusl & used to tell himself like I am not yet mature,it’s not semen,while knowing it,due to laziness for like many months,should he repeat the prayers

Prayer, Purity
19 Jul

ANSWER: No, as the prayers’ time has elapsed and he can’t make them up nor it would be accepted form him.

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QUESTION: Is it true that when you come back from hajj, your duas will be accepted for a period of time.

Hajj and Umrah, Supplications
19 Jul

ANSWER: There is no evidence from the Quran or Sunnah to back up such a claim

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QUESTION: Is drawing of Anime characters haram?

Halal/Haram Matters, Images and image-making
19 Jul

ANSWER: Yes.

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QUESTION: What is most rewarding? To pray Isha at the beginning time or delay it till the last time, like 11 or 11:30 pm.

Prayer
18 Jul

ANSWER: If you are a man, you must pray it in the masjid with the congregation.

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QUESTION: In Bangla, some da’ees say ‘Ishwar’ (used by Hindus the most, but translation of god in Bangla) when explaining ‘Allah’ to those who don’t know the word, or the word ‘Allah’ triggers their Islamophobia ( They normally still say ‘Allah’ ) . Is it allowed to use such words in da’wah to soften hearts? Are those DA’EEs out of Islam?

Religions
18 Jul

ANSWER: No they are not.  Similarly, God is not one of Allah’s Names but we use it in front of NonMuslims so that they understand

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