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QUESTION: Is it permissible for parents to want to know whether or not their daughter was a virgin before marriage? In my culture, it has been made completely that once a lady is married, her husband should buy gifts for the family if she is a virgin, and if not, they simply don’t speak about the matter. However, it is evident that she was not.

Kind Treatment of Spouses

21 Mar

ANSWER: What kind of culture is this?! This is absolutely prohibited and disrespectful for the girl!

QUESTION: I have 2 boys (5,3years) and they always Slept with us in our room and our bed space. We never let them sleep separately . But now, as they are growing, they cry and shout if they see we spouse together(hugging or sitting close). What’s the age the kids should sleep separately by Islam? And what can be done to keep them in their rooms and not run back to us at midnight?

Pedagogy education and upbringing

20 Mar

ANSWER: They must sleep in their rooms at such ages as they can see and recognize nudity and awrah. Lock your doors at night and suppress your emotions and they will learn.

QUESTION: Is it allowed to go for itikaf for 2 days and then take a break for 1 day because I have to go to office and then return back to itikaf for 1 or 2 days?

E'itikaaf

20 Mar

ANSWER: No problem.

QUESTION: Sheikh, in the mosques in my neighborhood/city, they lead 20 raka’ts for taraweeh, in groups of 4 raka’ts. Is it okay to join this kind of taraweeh Salah? Or should we just pray the right way at home?

Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl

20 Mar

ANSWER: If they pray 4 rakah like isha, do not pray with them and pray home.

QUESTION: Is it halal for the husband to help the wife cook or take turns to prepare meals if he already provides enough income for the family?

Kind Treatment of Spouses

19 Mar

ANSWER: No problem if he willingly helps out. He will be rewarded for that.

QUESTION: Does lifting up your head during sujood invalidate your prayer?

Prayer

18 Mar

ANSWER: If you lifted your head from sujood intentionally without a legitimate reason, this would invalidate your prayer

QUESTION: Is it permissible for a man to stipulate virginity as a condition in the marriage contract? Is it a custom of a well-mannered person?

Fiqh of Marriage, Marriage Contract

18 Mar

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited & inappropriate!!

QUESTION: Story of hazrat Fatima (R.S) that when prophet asked her did she see the moon . She replied she didn’t because it was first day moon and everyone would be looking at it . she didn’t like that her and other na mehram’s gaze on the moon together. Is this true ?

Other

18 Mar

ANSWER: No!

QUESTION: Is it allowed to work with a factory that produces cigarette by transporting their employee from home to work ? Same question for hotel resort (Sheraton, Hilton) that sometimes serves alcohol, can I transport their employee from/to home/hotel ?

Jobs

17 Mar

ANSWER: It is not permissible to transport tobacco workers to their work place as this is collaborating with them on sin There is no problem in doing so for hotel employees in Shā Allah

QUESTION: Can we give zakat to pay someone’s bank loan? This sister’s husband took loan with interest but he died now his wife has to pay. The bank has forgiven the interest rate but not the principal amount.

Loans, Riba, Zakat

17 Mar

ANSWER: If the loan is on the sister and she is forced to pay it off, this is permissible but it is not permissible to pay off an interest loan from zakat especially if it was on someone who is dead.

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