My brother has a few psychological problems.can i promise allah that i will avoid certain food(not fasting) for allah to cure him?.one person suggested that i can do like this.is this beneficial? If yes, what food should i avoid and for how long?

Oaths
26 Oct

You must not take such an oath.

Read more

Sheikh, is it permissible for a girl aged 19 to attend university where there is a mixed environment of boys and girls and is it permissible for a male teacher to teach female students?

Knowledge & Propagation
26 Oct

It is not permissible for a girl to attend mixed universities. As for the teacher, if there is no other alternative, he may do that but must lower his gaze and try to segregate the students if he can.

Read more

Aqeeqah, how much it is necessary? Once aqeeqah is done, can anyone change his/her name in future? Thank you so much Sheikh for answering my question.

Slaughtering
26 Oct

Doing Aqeeqah is Sunnah, hence this makes it important and necessary to do. Changing the name has nothing to do with the Aqeeqah as they are two separate things.

Read more

If i go to a practising raqi or sheikh to have ruqya for evil eye , constant head ache etc.???and he blows in zamzam water and asks me to drink it or spray it in my house or around my bed ..is this all permissible in islam to go to raqi and spray that water ????

Ruqyah
26 Oct

If he is known to follow the sunnah and is righteous,  this is permissible but not with the part of sprinkling water around the bed or the house.

Read more

My husband have earned a good amount of money and have it in his possession for more than a year. I have asked him to pay zakat on that money but he didn’t. Will i be also sinful for it?

Zakat
26 Oct

The sin is on him and it is a major sin.

Read more

Opening dua for salah

Articles, Prayer, Q&A/Fatwas, Videos
24 Oct
Read more

Does one have to pay zakat over money deposited in Fixed Deposit account in a bank for a year or more. The deposit is for security reasons as as one fears about cyber thefts. Of course, the interest earned is not utilized for self and is given to poor and needy.

Zakat
23 Oct

Yes one has to pay zakat on the savings of over a year.

Read more

When reciting a surah in the middle of the salah if I forget an ayah, and I get stuck and I don’t remember the next ayah, shall I take time to remember it or start the same surah from the beginning, or I start another surah or I leave the ayah and I read as much as I remember the rest of it? Sometimes it happens when I recite a newly memorised surah.

Prayer
23 Oct

If you can’t remember it, go to ruku.

Read more

Its the duty of both male n female to take care of their parents. But girls cannot take care of their parents after marriage. It involves great barriers like husbands permission, fear of in laws scolding. My husband’s parents scolding then by what means we shall help our parents as they are financially suffering

Fiqh of the family
23 Oct

It is an obligation upon all children according to their ability.

Read more

Although Gold phones do not contain real gold, if a man is choosing a new phone to buy, should he avoid the gold colour?

Beautification & Cosmetic Suregry, Halal/Haram Matters
23 Oct

No problem in choosing gold color.

Read more