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QUESTION: Is the hadith regarding not marrying one’s own bloodline (narrated by Umar Ibn Khattab) authentic?

Fiqh of Marriage

03 Oct

ANSWER: No, there is no such hadith!

QUESTION: I am leaving sketching humans for Allah. What should I do with my old drawings, can I keep them? and I promised to make a friend a human sketch as well, am I obliged to keep that promise or can I break it?

Images and image-making

02 Oct

ANSWER: It’s totally prohibited and one of the major sins in Islam and the most severely tormented people on the day of judgement would be people who draw living beings. You must destroy all those sketches, repent sincerely to Allah while showing deep remorse and never do such a major sin again.

QUESTION: Should I remind a friend of mine about the sins he did so he can repent?

Knowledge & Propagation

02 Oct

ANSWER: No, you’re not a moral police!

QUESTION: What’s the ruling on calling people as ‘lord’? Is it shirk?

Shirk and its different forms

01 Oct

ANSWER: No problem in this.

QUESTION: Next year In’sha’Allah I will visit my hometown so what is the ruling on combining prayers or not going to the masjid to pray which is near my house there? I’ve heard that a person can combine prayers until the person is settled. Is this true? How do I know if I still feel unsettled or if the shaytan is trying to play me to still combine?

Prayer

01 Oct

ANSWER: If its your hometown where you would eventually come back to, you must pray normally, like a resident as soon as you land in your city as you are not considered a traveller anymore.

QUESTION: Can I listen to music lyrics without background music?

Sports, Entertainment and Music

30 Sep

ANSWER: This is not permissible as such songs have haram lyrics and would make you want to listen to the original with music after a while.

QUESTION: Is it authentic to seek refuge from saytan by spitting on left side 3 times after having a bad dream??

Dreams

30 Sep

ANSWER: This is authentic.

QUESTION: Im married the second time. We made a marriage contract including a mahr. Now my husband says that because I was married before I couldn’t ask for a mahr because mahr is only for woman who get married the first time. Is this true?

Dowry

30 Sep

ANSWER: This is absolutely false! He must give you your mahr or you can take him to court! What kind of a cheap husband who would agree to pay mahar then backs out with such a baseless justification?

QUESTION: If we combine two surahs in one rakah we separate them using Bismillah…. If we’re in the loud raka should we recite it loudly?

Prayer

30 Sep

ANSWER: No.

QUESTION: Is it permissible to celebrate the circumcision of a little boy by inviting the family to eat together and gifting the boy?

Pedagogy education and upbringing

29 Sep

ANSWER: If this celebration coincides with the aqeeqah which is done on the 7th day of the birth of the child, this is permissible and fine.

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