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Is there any recommended number of verses a person should recite everyday to have good eeman? I have read about reciting 100 verses daily as the opinion of some scholars.

Reading/Reciting the Quran

18 Mar

ANSWER: One should at least recite the Quran once every month.

sheik i hav read d hadith tht parents shld do justice wth both child. shld nt give a seperate gift to 1 child. i hav seen many ppl.like wenever they keep food they keep few extra to gents thn girls saying gents need extra power. is it valid acc to islam or strictly prohibited tht evn in food we shld keep properly to sons and daughters & evryone shd have equal amt in famly

Fiqh of the family

18 Mar

ANSWER: This depends on their actual need. The food I keep for a 4 year child is different than the food I keep for an adult!

Sir, I am a mother of 2, 12 yr & 9 yr old. My children offer prayers and read the quran and study daily but the rest of the time they pass their time watching ipad or TV because i dont send them out for fear of bad company. my question is how do i provide halal entertainment to my kids.i try to stop TV and devices and they end up just sitting on the sofa looking at me angrily.

Pedagogy education and upbringing

18 Mar

ANSWER: You can get them involved in some indoor games or reading stories about prophets or sahabas rather than exposing them to corrupt media. If you can give them an Islamic alternative and halal things to watch, that would be a win win situation. Bottom line is that you must not give them access to haram […]

Does Allah have an actual physical body since the prophet said Allah’s not one eyed? What does Allah actually look like? How did the prophet say Allah’s voice was when he met Allah on the Night Journey? Please answer in detail.

Names and Attributes of Allaah

18 Mar

ANSWER: Allah is unlike anything we can imagine. We neither describe Him of having a body nor we deny it as it was not mentioned to us! We confirm that Allah is all hearing, all seeing, has a face, eyes, hands and the rest of His beautiful attributes. At the same time, we don’t say […]

People go to mount hira and pray salat, is there any reward as per sunnah for it or is it an innovation?

Innovations

18 Mar

ANSWER: This is an innovation hence one must not do it.

Sheikh now a days it is matter of huge dispute among Muslims that if a Kafir dies we don’t say he is going to hell and so on because we don’t know what was in his heart and also ALLAAH is merciful may be he gets forgiveness. And these people even go against fellow muslims to prove them wrong who are speaking on the basis of Quran that they are going into hell. Guide us.

Funerals

18 Mar

ANSWER: A Muslim should be courteous as part of having good moral conduct and not say such things to them while they are grieving however, those who say they will get forgiveness even though they were disbelievers are speaking without knowledge and are ignorant as we know for certain that disbelievers will go to hell for eternity if […]

After wudu some people look at the sky and show his finger to it and recite dua. is this way doing such and such sunnah? If no what to do just recite the dua without raising the finger and point to the sky?

Ablution (Wudhu), Innovations

17 Mar

ANSWER: This is an innovation. You should just recite the dua without pointing out finger to the sky.

i heard that if after every fajr prayer u put ur hands on ur head and read ayatul kursi, then Allah will give u shade under His throne subhanahu wata’ala in the day of qiyama!! is it true!

Innovations

17 Mar

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and an innovation.

Is it permissible to draw a picture of a bird without its eyes

Images and image-making

17 Mar

ANSWER: As long as it has a head and a face, this is prohibited.

Sheikh, is it true that some sunnahs should only be followed if its common in that place to avoid conflict between people? For example, while saying the tashahud its sunnah to move the finger and make dua with it, but I asked the imaam of my mosque and he said since most people don’t do it I shouldn’t do it too because it might distract the person praying beside me. please explain.

Prayer

17 Mar

ANSWER: If he knows that something is the authentic sunnah then he should follow it even if everyone else is not.

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