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QUESTION: Sheikh, does a woman have to perform ghusl again after her istihadah ends?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Purity

03 May

ANSWER: No.

QUESTION: Can I disobey my mother and fast on Mondays, Thursdays, and the 13th, 14th, and 15th of the month? I’ve often fast, but due to long bus travels and extreme weather in India, my mother worries and only permits fasting on weekends. Will I still receive the same reward for obeying my mother and not fasting? Can I still enter from ar-Rayyan?

Fasting, Fiqh of the family

01 May

ANSWER: You are not obliged to obey your parents in leaving voluntary fasts when there is no hardship on you and fasting won’t hinder you from serving them properly.

QUESTION: Sheikh is it true that if a woman does not cover her head in the house then the angels of mercy do not come to that house.

Innovations, Women clothing

01 May

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and fabricated!

QUESTION: My parents are pressuring me to get married, but they consistently find fault with any potential suitor. When I decline, they urge me to reconsider, but when I agree, they criticize my choice and taunt me for considering it.

Fiqh of Marriage, Fiqh of the family

01 May

ANSWER: You can’t accuse them of gaslighting you like that! They want the best for you, otherwise they wouldn’t have insisted that you get married. However, they want you to choose someone who would be good for you. Think positively about them and try to work with them until Allah grants you a good righteous […]

QUESTION: Do the practise of performing flower bath is allowed in Islam? In some part in S.E.A. we practice this with quranic verses accompanied by niat@niyyah on our intention. Ex: to stimulate good aura in an effort to look for spouse, to get rid of negative influences such as sihr. These flower bath usually performed by obtaining different types of fragrances flower, lime and rose water.

Halal/Haram Matters, Ruqyah

30 Apr

ANSWER: This is not permissible as its an innovation and imitating the Hindus in their rituals.

QUESTION: Is it haram if i ask my cousin who works in a store (supermarket), to put aside an item so that I can come and buy it later? So nobody else will buy it

Halal/Haram Matters

30 Apr

ANSWER: This is not permissible.

QUESTION: My husband uses weed and says its not a drug and not haram to do so. what’s the ruling on it? is it really drug or not

Halal/Haram Matters, Prayer

30 Apr

ANSWER: Weed is a drug and totally prohibited and a person’s prayers of 40 days are invalidated if he consumes alcohol or does drugs & he cannot abandon prayer during these days thinking they are anyways not going to be accepted because abandoning prayer takes a person out of the fold of Islam!

QUESTION: Are the 70,000 who enter paradise without reckoning literally 70,000 or is this a way of saying a really really great amount of people. Is this one of the instances in the Arabic language where the number 70 is used to denote an incredibly great amount?

Paradise and Hell, Ruqyah

29 Apr

ANSWER: This doesn’t mean a literal number rather it is a way of exaggerating the number according to the Arabs.

QUESTION: If I’m outside and don’t have any way to perform wudhu, then can I pray the fard salah of that waqt without wudhu?

Ablution (Wudhu)

29 Apr

ANSWER: This is not permissible as you must perform wudhu if there is water even if you do it underneath the abayah

QUESTION: I have 2 kids and my husband started sending me to my mother’s place whenever he has work outside or when we get sick. Even though I tell him I can handle the situation staying with in-laws he says his parents can’t look after the kids & he can’t stay stress free if he goes outside.And now he is sending me to my mother’s house without valid reason Is my husband doing right?

Fiqh of Marriage, Fiqh of the family

29 Apr

ANSWER: This is not right as he must get you a separate home where you can live without burdening his parents or yours. Your parents got you married so that you would live in your marital house and not to pop up in their house with your children every now and then and cause them […]

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