QUESTION: Can I pray SUNNAH salaat with other niyah as well (eg istikhara)?

Prayer
23 Sep

ANSWER: Yes, this is permissible.

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QUESTION: My family’s marriage proposal for me was almost fixed, but I never wanted it because I loved someone else. Despite telling them, I was pressured to agree. I didn’t speak to the chosen man for six months because I didn’t want the marriage. Eventually, he understood and the proposal stopped. Now everyone is deeply hurt, and some curse me. Am I sinful for stopping the marriage and hurting everyone?

Fiqh of Marriage, Fiqh of the family, Pre-Marital Relations
23 Sep

ANSWER: You are sinful for being in a relationship with someone else but you are not sinful for refusing to marry someone you don’t want.

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QUESTION: My father pays my university fees and tells me to study certain subjects or skills. I can do what he asks, but I also want to study other things. I fear that if I tell him I understand what he wants but am studying other things too, he may stop paying my fees. Am I sinful for not telling him everything I study and continuing to use his money for my university education? Am I wasting his money?

Character and Morals, Fiqh of the family
23 Sep

ANSWER: This is not permissible! He must know what he is paying your fees for, otherwise its deceiving him!

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QUESTION: Is it permissible in islam for me and my siblings in the absence of our parents to remember, talk and laugh about their behaviour while scolding us because they are funny memories and we think affectionately of them, saying some day we might not have them around to get scolded.

Backbiting, Fiqh of the family
22 Sep

ANSWER: If it is something they wouldn’t mind if they heard you all then no problem, otherwise its not permissible as it would come under backbiting.

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QUESTION: Sheikh I’m 30 female unmarried, I am a practicing Muslim and don’t want to do free mixing Job recently I started my own business in cart but due to anti encroachment in Pakistan Im worried what should I do ? should I do free mixing Job or what ? please motivate me about my rizq and predestine

Jobs
22 Sep

ANSWER: I don’t think you need any motivation as your natural inclination and fitrah is telling you that free mixing is wrong and the rizq is in Allah’s hands.

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QUESTION: I ordered several items from Temu, 3 were not upto my expectations. One’s packaging was not intact, 2nd was very small compared to the pic and 3rd had a minor issue as well(for this specific I wrote it was no longer needed so seller image doesn’t hurt) they refunded my money but said u can keep the items as it’s my 1st refund. Can I use these items now if I wish to?

Halal/Haram Matters
22 Sep

ANSWER: If you wish to use them, you should give the money they had refunded you to charity or give the items to charity. When you say to them that you no longer need it, you can’t just keep using it while the money is refunded! They wouldn’t have given it to you for free […]

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QUESTION: Does regularly asking for forgivess open doors of barakah.

Other
22 Sep

ANSWER: Yes

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QUESTION: If the Imam is doing the khutba and someone tells me assalamualaikum, should I answer or just move my lips without letting the words out

Prayer
21 Sep

ANSWER: You must not answer, not even make a gesture to acknowledge his salam!

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QUESTION: I want to ask about the reality about Kamar dar Akrab according to the sahih hadhit here in India people don’t take their marriage dates on these particular days is it right according to the hadhit or an innovation

Innovations
21 Sep

ANSWER: Kamar dar Akrab – there is no such thing in Islam! There are no months or days that are prohibited to get married in!

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QUESTION: If a father passes away and the mother, adult daughter, and young adult son are all capable of working, is the son Islamically obligated to cover all household expenses—even if this leaves him with barely enough for himself, while the women can spend their income on personal wants? Or should all working family members contribute toward household expenses according to their financial ability?

Fiqh of the family
21 Sep

ANSWER: As long as the mother and sister are financially capable, the son is not obliged to provide for them.

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