Keeping pictures of living people is an issue of dispute among great scholars. The majority forbid it. With dead people, they all agree that this is not permissible as it may lead to shirk or talking to the deceased as it happened with the people of Noah, peace be upon him.

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What is the ruling on cloning of human beings? How does it affect lineage, marriage, inheritance and other rulings on family matters? May Allaah reward you with much good. Praise be to Allaah. Allaah has created man in the best of forms, and bestowed upon him the greatest honours. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): […]

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If you want to sell gold that you have, it is OK to sell it lower or higher than the market price as long as the giving of the gold and taking of the cash takes place immediately and at the same time

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It is not permissible for you to buy stolen goods, even if you don’t know who it was stolen from.

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Adoption is forbidden in Islam. The alternative is that you sponsor an orphan by taking him or her in your custody. That child is not related to you in Islam which means that he is not a son or a daughter to the people who took him in. This means that he can’t be named […]

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I am certain we pay enough Zakaah and to the best of my knowledge I have not been unfair to anyone or mistreated anyone. What should I do to comfort myself. I pray this is a way of expiating my sins or a type of sadqa upon my family. Pls guide me as to what […]

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Adoption as it is known in the west is not permissible in Islam. It is not permissible to adopt a child an treat him or her as your own in the sense that it carries your name and it inherits you and you inherit it. However, in Islam we have what is known as sponsoring […]

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If this house was given from the woman (or her family) to the husband as the Hindus do, this is not permissible for the man to take as it is his duty to give the woman and not the other way around. Therefore, your father must give the house back to your mother.

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