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The university where I am planning to study might have female teachers who wouldn’t be wearing hijab. Now, I need not look at them to listen to their lectures

Character and Morals

13 Feb

But the thing is when they are going to write something on the board, my gaze will inevitably fall on them while I try to see what they write on the board. Is it permissible to look at them without any desire in such a case? ……………………………………………………………………….. You must avoid this to the best of […]

Can a muslim tell lies for the benefit of the company one doing jobs?

Jobs

13 Feb

No, this is not permissible.

If i want to say something about someone,,Does it come under gossiping/slandering as long as i dont pick the names specifically.or can i say “someone said like this, someone did this ” Is the later part allowed?

Backbiting

13 Feb

If people do not know who that person is, this is permissible, but do not give names

Is lying permissible in some cases,like a father is living with someone and the son having some financial problems,some weekends the son brings some food from outside which is not costly, for only to comfort his wife…

Character and Morals

13 Feb

…if he say truth to his father that food is from outside he knows that his father is angry on him that “you are wasting money” so he said to his wife that don’t say this is from outside and if she obey his husband may be Allah will not be happy with both of […]

If I say about a muslim brother that I don’t like him, is this backbiting?

Backbiting

13 Feb

Yes, it is .

Is it lawful to read magazines that talk about improving intimacy/physical relationship if one is married (i.e Cosmopolitan etc).

Character and Morals

13 Feb

If a person needs this, he may read it providing that it doesn’t have photos or haram articles.

Is the salary of a person working in police dept. of anti islamic govt. like India halal? What about a lawyer.

Jobs

13 Feb

This depends on his work and activities. If he is working against Islam and Muslims, his salary is haram. As for the lawyer, if he is taking cases and applying the rule of secular states, this is forbidden as one can only rule with the Islamic law except in cases that he is defending the […]

Is killing insect such as spiders sinfully?

Character and Morals

13 Feb

It is permissible to kill anything harmful.

I work full time and there is no mosque near by my office. I use to go to a local university for Friday jumu’ah salaah as they have a room and lots of brothers pray together including the khutba message is delivered However the university year is coming to an end as students will be in the office. We have a prayer room in my office, can I pray 4 rakat thuhr salaah instead of jumu’ah by myself? Is this acceptable?

Prayer

12 Feb

You must look for the nearest masjid and join the Friday prayer as it is the most important prayer of the week where Muslims gather. The Prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam had told us that whoever misses three Fridays in a row, Allah will seal his heart.

What should one do if one forgets to mention a required tasbeeh during ruku’ and remembers just afterwards after rising up?

Prayer

12 Feb

If someone, after raising his head from ruku‘, remembers that he did not say the supplications of ruku‘, he should not return back to the ruku‘ because the requirement for supplication of ruku‘ has been dropped by virtue of his rising it. If he returns back to the ruku‘ intentionally, this action would render his […]

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