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People says that the Fateha is allowed in Islam. They give me the reference of the word Fateha used in the name of Surah ie surah Fateha. I am from India and people use to give a fateha (ie reading some surahs on food etc etc). Pl help me understanding the subject

Innovations

08 May

This is an innovation. Praise be to Allaah. The action which you describe is an innovation (bid’ah), as you indicated in your question, because there is no doubt that the people who are doing this are doing it as an act of worship by which they seek to draw closer to Allaah, and every action […]

Iam married for 3 years and we are not blessed with child,recently we went to India with my husband and did check up and my results were all okay but my husbands sperm were little due to diabetic.they (Doctors) give us suggestions of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Is this halal ? Both the sperm and eggs will be ours.

Medicine and medical treatments

08 May

Kindly refer to the following link(s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM5EtO3CZ6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSQzVn0SiEA

Sir what is the ruling of killing insects? Like wherever I see spider or cockroaches i kill them. Pardon me if my question is stupid.

Halal/Haram Matters

08 May

It is permissible to kill anything harmful.

if i dont get to pray while i am travelling due to the change of place and other reasons but when i return home and immediatly i read my missed prayers would my prayer b accepted?

Prayer

08 May

You must pray on time whether on the plane or elsewhere. If one skips prayer until the time is over, he can’t make it up and he is sinful.

my question is when we r travelling we pray two rakas of fard except maghrib. but when we return home and pray our missed salah should we pray two rakas of the missed prayers or full four rakas?

Prayer

08 May

You must pray the full prayer, providing you skipped it for an Islamic legitimate reason.

If I refuse to be married, am I sinning? What is the punishment?

Fiqh of Marriage

08 May

You are not sinning unless you have the urge for sex. If you don’t have such a need or urge, you are going against the Sunnah and losing reward.

Is it sunnah to drink water from glass by touching your mouth to it even if the glass is public ? I was drinking water from a common(for all) glass without touching my mouth to its tip.. A man came upto me and told me that non Muslims drink this way.. touch your mouth to the glass.

Halal/Haram Matters

07 May

What he said is baseless. Praise be to Allaah. It was proven that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) forbade drinking from the mouth of the waterskin. Narrated by al-Bukhaari (5628) and Muslim (5629) from the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah and Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with them). The siqa’ […]

Do the animal one has to offer for the haqiqah of the new should be of the same quality (age, teeth, horns etc.) as that of the animal for the Qirbani? Or a younger animal could be offered for haqiqah?

Slaughtering

07 May

It must be at least 6 months old sheep or 1 year old goat.

An organization has no dress-code directive (obligation or prohibition) regarding cap / religious head-covering of males. Yet a top executive has been recently giving verbal orders to not wear “tupi” stating that “Tupi is not part of Islam”. In the circumstance, for someone who wears “tupi” to follow the Sunnah of Rasoolullah (ﷺ), what’s to be done?

Men Clothing

07 May

Kindly refer to the following link(s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phRSuDzA6CQ

During the 1965 war between India and Pakistan many Pakistani soldiers strapped bombs onto themselves and blew themselves up,taking Indian tanks with them.Question is, is this kind of suicide permissible? The war would have otherwise ended in India conquering Pakistan.Folks praise these suicidee soldiers as martyrs in the path of something and say it was justified at that time.

Islamic Politics

07 May

This was wrong and it is suicide if they detonated the bomb themselves.

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