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In my country, oddly people are named Elahi which if you think about the meaning is pretty shocking. But would it be wrong for me to acknowledge the name. So if someone says Elahi won the election and I say ok?

Halal/Haram Matters

29 Jul

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited and the name must be changed. You must not call them by this name.

What is the most authentic opinion concerning the obligation of paying zakatul maal on behalf of minors? I have read that the majority regarded it as obligatory but for example imam Abu Hanifa and sheikh Al Albani did not do so. The arabic word الصبي is used in this regard but to which age refers this? Is this from the birth until puberty?

Zakat

29 Jul

ANSWER: It’s obligatory to pay zakat for minors and insane people as well as long it reaches nisab and stays for a whole hijab year.

I am an accountant. I quit my job because it involved recording riba at times. And job hunting. Almost all jobs an accountant can get would involve recording riba. Now I got a job offer in a bank. And this job won’t involve recording riba, but filing reports to authorities. Is it acceptable? Or at least more acceptable to work in a Bank w/o recording riba, than work in non-Bank and record riba?

Jobs, Riba

28 Jul

ANSWER: It’s totally prohibited to work in any department of a riba based bank, even if you work as a janitor, its prohibited and the income is haram and its one of the major sins in Islam!

During periods is it allowed to cut nails and hairs??even if we do so do we want to purify it??i heard if we dispose it without purifying it will be questioned on the day of judgmnt??

Innovations, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Superstitions

28 Jul

ANSWER: No problem in this whatsoever. What you have heard is totally baseless and a superstitious belief that has got nothing to do with islam.

If I live in Russia and there is one Muslim in my family. Can I inherit property from a relative or receive it if a will is drawn up for me? Does it have to be a written and notarized will?

Inheritance

28 Jul

ANSWER: If you mean, can you inherit from a non muslim relative then this is not permissible. They can gift you in their lifetime or can write a will of 1/3 of less of their property in their will.

When someone talks bad about me in front of anyone and the person listening to him comes to me and tells me he said such and such thing about me? How do I respond to that? Do I confront him or just pray?

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Other

28 Jul

ANSWER: Ignore it as you never know, maybe this person is lying and trying to break your friendship with that person.

A family frnd has invited us to her daughter’s engagement party,which is females only.Is it permissible to attend as engagements are nt excatly sunnah..?

Engagement

28 Jul

ANSWER: No problem as long as it doesn’t have anything haram, like free mixing between non mahrams, music, exchanging rings etc.

If person 1 has said some wrong words for person 2, if I tell person 2 about what person 1 has said about him without adding anything from me, will it come under backbiting. My intention of telling was to aware that person 2.

Backbiting

28 Jul

ANSWER: This is called nameemah which is gossiping and would cause a fight between the two which is one of the main reasons for the torment of the grave. The prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam said: the person who does this sin will not enter paradise.