QUESTION: Renting car with insurance in turkey as tourist – is it halal to take a car for rent with insurance and also pay bit xtra to cover also smaller damages & remove the need of police report if there’s small accident. Sm1 said they charge from deposit otherwise

Insurance
23 Sep

ANSWER: You must only take mandatory insurance due to necessity and not anything extra. When i tell my parents,or elderly people here in india that medical insurance is prohibited in islam then many of them who belong to middle class or who don’t have savings tell what will u do if u have serious disease […]

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QUESTION: If my father has brothers from the same father but different mothers, are those paternal uncles of mine mahram to me?

Mahram
23 Sep

ANSWER: Yes, he is your mahram.

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QUESTION: Sheikh,one of my friend told he’s married. We’re the student of undergraduation. But his parents don’t know about their marriage but the parents of the girl knew partially about the marriage. Now is that marriage haalal or haram?

Fiqh of Marriage, Invalid Marriages
22 Sep

ANSWER: This is something the man and his wife should be asking about and not you as this is none of your business and you should keep your nose out of other people’s affairs.  If the woman’s father did not give her away in marriage, the marriage is invalid.

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QUESTION: My brother is always checking my phone. I’m a working woman, so he is checking to see whether I’m talking with anyone or not. One day, I got some messages from a wrong number. I’m not involved, but the messages are not good that’s why he always check my phone Is it right for him to always check my phone?

Character and Morals, Fiqh of the family
22 Sep

ANSWER: This is absolutely wrong and he has no right to do that! Change your password! Get your father involved and tell him about this!

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QUESTION: Can we take loan on interest in case of any emergency like medical emergency?

Loans, Riba
22 Sep

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible  It’s a major sin and Allah has waged a war against people who deal with riba!

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QUESTION: Some days ago I saw that asr time entered. In a rush I forgot if I prayed dhurh, so I assumed that I didnt and immediately started making it up. While praying I remembered that I actually prayed it. I wanted to change my intention to asr since it’s already asr time but I wasn’t sure if I can do I, so I changed my intention to nafil. What should I do if this happens again?

Prayer
22 Sep

ANSWER: You did the right thing as you can’t change your intention to another fard prayer. 

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QUESTION: You said in a past video that reading translation of surah Fatiha is bidah, when you are in salah. I already have the meaning of surah Fatiha memorized. Can i read it in my head without saying it. Should i read the whole surah first and then contemplate the meaning or should i contemplate the meaning after each following line from the surah and then proceed to read the next line in Arabic.

Innovations, Prayer
21 Sep

ANSWER: Knowing the meaning in your head is enough and you don’t have to pause after reciting it in Arabic to read it in English in your mind! 

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QUESTION: I am from South India In My Town Scholar say Muhammed Nabi (as) And sahaba Is do Iztima and 40 to 4 month jamat which left From Home For Islamic knowledge is it True

Innovations, Sects
21 Sep

ANSWER: This is totally baseless.

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QUESTION: Name of the scholars that you follow and quote from.

Knowledge & Propagation
21 Sep

ANSWER: Ibn Taimiyya, Ibn Uthaymeen, Sheikh Bin Baz, Sheikh Al Bani etc

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QUESTION: I’ve reverted to Islam and my parents are typical Hindus. After a lot of chaos they accepted me as Muslim and I got married to a Muslim Alhamdullillah. But as they still do idol worship at home, can I visit and stay with them and pray at their place.

Fiqh of the family, Prayer, Religions
21 Sep

ANSWER: No problem.  You must be more respectful and merciful to them as you’re representing islam now.

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