QUESTION: While eating, elders say that the left hand must not touch the food at all. Even though we eat with right hand, but sometimes we use both hands to break bread or meat. Is it true that the left hand cannot even touch ur food to help?

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Innovations
22 Oct

ANSWER: What they say is incorrect.

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QUESTION: I want to ask if a person does ruqya on himself or on others does it matter if he is a righteous and practising muslim or not in order for that ruqya to work or it doesn’t matter at all?

Ruqyah
22 Oct

ANSWER: Any muslim can do ruqya. The more the person is righteous, the better it is. QUESTION: What is Ruqyah and how one should do it?

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QUESTION: What should be our attitude towards Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali? He is a renowned scholar and many regard him as a mujaddid, yet he apparently was ashari and brought tasawuff/sufism to Islam?

Knowledge & Propagation
22 Oct

ANSWER: Imam Ghazali is not reliable to learn from as he went too deep into philosophy.  I do not recommend to read alghazali books if you do not have knowledge; as he has a lot of mistakes in Aqeeda and he included many weak hadeeths in his books, so if you are not able to […]

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QUESTION: While rising from sujud I felt a movement and a sound but In that moment I was sure it came from my stomach..so I continued to pray..after sometime I thought it could be farting sound but I ignored the thought and prayed.. should I repeat my prayer?

Prayer
21 Oct

ANSWER: Your prayer is valid as you must not break it for the sake of a doubt. You must have certainty in order to break it.

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QUESTION: Should I do raf ul yadain when standing for third rakah of witr incase I pray it with one tashahhud?

Prayer, Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl
21 Oct

ANSWER: No, you shouldn’t raise your hands.

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QUESTION: If someone makes a vow and he die without fulfilling it, will he go to hell for ever and be a major hypocrite or is it a major sin but Allah can forgive him ? Is it issue of dispute ?

Oaths
21 Oct

ANSWER: If he was unable to fulfill it, Allah will not hold him accountable. But if he was able but did not do so intentionally, he is sinful but it is not an act of kufr! 

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QUESTION: My daughter usually offer salah when there is 15 minutes to the next salah ( or adhan) is she doing wrong?

Prayer
21 Oct

ANSWER: If she prays it within the prescribed time, she is not sinful but she is playing with fire as there will coma a time when she would miss the prayer for one reason or the other and then she is sinful big time.

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QUESTION: I wanted to know is it impermissible to listen/sing, “tasbih al-zahra, as I can’t send the link of that video, kindly listen to it & say me bout it sheikh.

Innovations, Shirk and its different forms
20 Oct

ANSWER: There’s no such tasbih in Islam! Most likely this is an innovated thikr fabricated by the sufis and it is filled with innovation and maybe shirk.

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QUESTION: My son is 24 yrs and I am getting him married. Problem is that he doesn’t pray regularly, like he prays jumaa and 1-2 prayers a day. Some days no prayer at all. He also has anti islamic views. Can I look for a religious girl (niqaabi) for his marriage? is it ok if I do this? Do I need to tell the girl his prayer status?

Fiqh of Marriage, Fiqh of the family
20 Oct

ANSWER: You shouldn’t assist him in getting married if he as you had described as you would be harming and deceiving a poor muslim woman and her family.

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QUESTION: Is it permissible for a niqabi woman to give Salaam+ask how are you doing to non mahram relatives/teachers/collegues to be polite and then segregate from them to another space?

Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram
20 Oct

ANSWER: This is not appropriate from such a practicing woman as this would open the door for Satan.

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