QUESTION: Sheikh, will my Salah be valid if someone plays music when am praying. This always happens and I can’t tell them no as they will get mad at me. 

Prayer, Sports, Entertainment and Music
28 Jun

ANSWER: The music does not impact the validity of the prayer.

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QUESTION: I had money for Hajj in 2018 but invested in cryptocurrency instead, resulting in losses. I am still under a big debt which I am paying back on monthly basis from my salary. If Hajj was obligatory then, will I be sinful for life if I die without performing it? And I have to borrow money to complete the fard even if I don’t have enough money now? or Hajj is fard on yearly basis only?

Hajj and Umrah
28 Jun

ANSWER: You must not borrow to go to hajj and you must repent and pay off your debts and go to hajj with your own money as soon as you can. 

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QUESTION: When I recite surah mulk before sleeping, I don’t recite with attention and contemplation most of the time. Will I get the reward? Cuz I’m sleepy

Supplications
28 Jun

ANSWER: Yes, in sha Allah 

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QUESTION: I ask about splashes during washing a impure cloth or body and you provide the answer and I watched the vedio many times but I really didn’t understand that if it fell on my forehead or hair where I can’t see it or smell if it’s characteristics changes or not in this case if I assume that by that time water may have dilute the urine should I not wash that or how can I understand if it’s urine

Psychological Problems, Waswaas - Whispers of Shaytaan
28 Jun

ANSWER: When someone doesn’t want to understand, nothing can make them understand as satan is contorting their thinking and insisting on destroying their lives and causing them great deal of hardship! I suggest that you book a counseling session with me if you can afford it as it is obvious you suffer from OCD not […]

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QUESTION: Will women with hijab still be hold accountable because of men who don’t lower their gaze even for women with hijab?

Sins, Women clothing
27 Jun

ANSWER: No. No soul shall bear the consequences of another’s actions and they have done what Allah had ordered them to do. 

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QUESTION: We(a non mehram and I being in a relationship)quit talking to each other at all. Is it permissible to get in touch only for a while to share recommended supplications,ibadat,good deeds which we get from hadith,sermon?

Pre-Marital Relations
27 Jun

ANSWER: This is not permissible at all and one of the steps of satan that usually would end in zina

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QUESTION: Hey sheikh what to do if clothes become soiled with urine or mathi and you forget the soiled area? Can we read quran please answer

Purity, Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran
27 Jun

ANSWER: You can read the Quran  You can’t pray with it if there is impurity on it

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QUESTION: Im blessed with 4 daughters and we desire for baby boy next.Can i do IVF treatment as this like choose the baby gender.Is it allowed in Islam?

Fiqh of Marriage, Medicine and medical treatments
27 Jun

ANSWER: It is not permissible to do IVF treatment when you already have children.

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QUESTION: A family festival is about to be held in my uncle’s house this Friday and most of the time there is segregation but none of the women wear hijab and non mahrams might to talk to to each other and crack jokes with each other…can I go to this place and only sir with my mahrams and not speak to any non mahrams but if they say Salam I reply with Salam by looking down,is this permissible for me?

Mahram, Sports, Entertainment and Music
26 Jun

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible if they all sit in the same room. Islam promotes and mandates segregation between non mahrams 

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QUESTION: Can laymen do taqleed of deceased scholar like Ibn Uthaymeen, or of student of knowledge like u, from different country, or must one follow scholar from same country, even if he is a deobandi hanafi? Asking because I read on Islamqa that Ibn Uth. said that it’s best to follow scholar of own country, but what if he is deobandi and if I’ve already been following you and Ibn Uth. for some time now?

Knowledge & Propagation
26 Jun

ANSWER: You don’t need to follow your own country in this.

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