QUESTION: Am I sinful as I failed in exam…as I hurted my parents and wasted their money .

Fiqh of the family
11 Mar

ANSWER: If you didn’t work hard and wasted your time instead of studying then you’re sinful 

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QUESTION: Is it a husbands job to pay for wife’s visa expenses. The amount I need to pay for came at a shock to me after marriage and I’m struggling to pay it

Fiqh of Marriage, Kind Treatment of Spouses
10 Mar

ANSWER: Of course!  The man is obliged to pay for all of his wife’s expenses. 

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QUESTION: I am married and live with my parents and sister. My sister is disabled. My father is partially blind. My mother has late stage cancer and a difficult person (always been abusive). My wife and Mom have issues. I have considered putting distance between my wife and Mom but my parents never accept any compromises (separate house, separate story). How can I give my wife her right of privacy?

Dealings and Attitudes with In-Laws, Fiqh of the family, Kind Treatment of Spouses
10 Mar

ANSWER: She has all the right in Islam to ask you for a separate accommodation. Your parents have no say or right in this. You must fear Allah and give your wife her rights. If you cannot give her a separate house, you must give her a separate room, washroom and a place to cook […]

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QUESTION: Is it necessary for a woman to wear a scarf on her head during Azaan? Will it be a sin if we don’t take it?

Innovations, Women clothing
10 Mar

ANSWER: This is an innovation. 

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QUESTION: In case of need I have taken money from my mother without her permission. Is it okay for me to ask her for forgiveness generally, for everything, or I need to specify the amount taken. Please pray to Allah to open the doors of halal sustenance for me. 

Fiqh of the family, Halal/Haram Matters
09 Mar

ANSWER: You must return the money back to her and then ask her for forgiveness.

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QUESTION: I’ve heard a story since I was a child that there was a lady who threw garbage at the prophet (saw) everyday, until one day she didn’t, so the prophet (saw) went to check on her, and she became a Muslim, due to the humbleness of the prophet (saw), because he came to check, even thought she disrespected him everyday. Now I saw a video in which it says that this story has no basis or it isn’t true.

Biography of the Prophet salla Allahu alahi wa sallam
09 Mar

ANSWER: This story is not authentic.

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QUESTION: Sheikh is it bid’ah to use the electronic tasbih to do dhikr

Supplications
09 Mar

ANSWER: This is not an innovation, however the sunnah is to make dhikr on right hand fingers as they will bear witness for us on the day of judgement.

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QUESTION: Should a woman serve her MIL because her husband asks her to do it? Because he isn’t able to do it as he is busy with work. And he says things like “you must obey your husband in whatever he says, so please do it”

Dealings and Attitudes with In-Laws, Kind Treatment of Spouses
08 Mar

ANSWER: No, he has no right in ordering the wife to serve his parents or family! Why doesn’t he order her to wash the cars of the neighbors as well? He can hire a maid for his mom. If the wife does it out of love for her husband, without any pressure from him then […]

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QUESTION: How to give zakat al fitr in a kafir country? Since it must be given to a poor Muslim.

Zakat
08 Mar

ANSWER: Look for the masjid you go to and whether they have a solution for that. 

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QUESTION: Is wearing animal shaped jewelleries permissible? I have earrings that have small butterfly wings and body and a hole where the head should be in order to make the butterflies swing. Will I be sinful for wearing it? And will my Salah be invalid with them on?

Halal/Haram Matters
08 Mar

ANSWER: This is not permissible as such jewelries are considered to be statues and prohibited.

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