Can procrastination be a method of Allah preventing someone from doing something that eventually would come out to be unnecessary, useless, or irrelevant; and instead of doing it, Allah would keep a man busy with something more beneficent or useful?

Divine Will and Decree
21 Mar

It could be, but it would depend on what the person is procrastinating on.For example, procrastinating in doing good deeds or praying salah on time and being lazy is from the shaytaan.

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If someone tells me something about a third person and ask me not to disclose to anyone else then if I tell it to a fourth person will I be sinful?

Backbiting
21 Mar

Yes! Besides, listening to what he has to say about that third person is most likely back-biting and you are sinful for listening to him, unless there is a legitimate reason.

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Can I go into a restaurant where the music is played in the background, and where the alcohol is served. I am not involved in music neither I consume alcohol. I am simply going there to have my lunch or dinner because that specific restaurant serve the best food and also the food is halal?

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners
21 Mar

It would be better if you found some other place, or order takeout if they refuse to stop the music

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In duhr prayer I got only last 1 raka with the imam. Now when I have to complete more 3 rakah, so do I have to say tashahud in this 3 rakah? And if so then in which rakah I have to sit for tashahud?

Prayer
21 Mar

You have to sit for tashahud in the 2nd and 4th rakat, as usual. The rakah your payed with the Imam is your first rakah.

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kindly tell me if I can wear a new pair of slippers during tawaf since my feet ache a lot .

Hajj and Umrah
21 Mar

No problem.

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May we donate blood to our sick relative?

Medicine and medical treatments
21 Mar

This is permissible.

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 I asked my dad to use the computer about making Qur’an cds for my friend and he said no, and I don’t think I can find another computer. My sister doesn’t have these restrictions because she isn’t Muslim and before I started practising I didn’t either. Would I be sinning at all if I make the cds?

Character and Morals, Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners
21 Mar

Inform him. That is his computer, you should obey him.

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 Is it permissible to greet by saying hello a non believer (who is neither friend nor an enemy )? (Shaik I am saying about morning walkers whom we meet daily while walking daily in India) I am keen to know.

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners
21 Mar

This is permissible but for same gender. If you are a women, you can’t greet non mahram men.

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 When we are saying dhikr in prayer does it  essential to speak the words or its just enough when we move tongue without speaking and is this ruling come under fard salat prayer that recites  surah silently? [i mean reciting surah in silent pray, is it essential to utter the words when reciting surah?]

Prayer
21 Mar

Yes, you should pronounce the words, moving the lips( but not aloud).

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I got a thought [in that thought I was complaining about a problem to my friend that I don’t hesitate to commit kufr] that thought ended right there. Few minutes I was too shocked to think such thoughts, however I did not say anything in reality, it was just a thought that DID NOT SETTLE IN MY HEART. Was this apostasy?

Apostasy
21 Mar

No, if it was by mistake.

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