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QUESTION: I used to think that if I have like discharge following menses, Ive to stop praying and fasting for 15 days. So I used to leave fasts for 15 days unintentionally, do I make up them too?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding

25 Jan

ANSWER: If such discharges appeared after seeing your purity, you need to repeat your missed fasts as you were pure and must fast.

QUESTION: I do not work but I am given gift money year-round and I was wondering if Zakat is obliged on me even though these are not my individual earnings. This money is from graduation, Eid, and the likes. I use this money for personal needs/wants.

25 Jan

ANSWER: If this money reaches the nisab then yes, you must pay zakat on it, whether it’s your hard earned money or gift.

QUESTION: My mother is forcing me to dance at my cousin’s wedding with a non mahram..I told my mom I won’t dance because it is haram…now she is angry with me and is abusing me and not talking to me since yesterday…what should I do now?

Fiqh of the family, Sports, Entertainment and Music

25 Jan

ANSWER: Remain to be dutiful and respectful despite her behavior but hold your ground and never obey her in something that angers Allah.

QUESTION: Is hashish haram? My brother is addicted to this when fathers scolds him he misbehaves and says it is just a herb.

Halal/Haram Matters, Prayer

25 Jan

ANSWER: Yes, it’s haram and a major sin and his prayers of 40 days won’t be accepted everytime he consumes it.

QUESTION: If my family usually free mixes but my sister manages to segregate between men and women at her house. But knowing there is still a chance that people won’t comply and freely mix, what is the ruling ong that?

Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram

24 Jan

ANSWER: One should avoid going in such gathering or arrange it! There is zero tolerance in this. Either they comply or not go.

QUESTION: How can I calculate my zakat if one day it’s price is $775 while the other day it is $800 per (12 grams of gold)

24 Jan

ANSWER: You must fix a day and every hijri year must see what the selling price of gold is on that particular day and give 2.5%

QUESTION: Does revealing hairs of a woman to a non-meheram invalidate her wudu ?

Ablution (Wudhu), Women clothing

24 Jan

ANSWER: This has no impact on her wudhu though she is sinful for that.

QUESTION: I live in small town and there is a beef factory. I have seen that the animal is shot and they don’t slaughter the animal from the jugular vein but from the throat down. I know there an ayah that forbids us from eating dead animal and in a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari 2236, the prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) forbade us to trade from dead meat. My question sheikh, I want you to help

Halal/Haram Matters

23 Jan

ANSWER: If the source of meat in your town is coming only from such a factory and you know for certain that the animal is cold dead before being slaughtered, then this is dead meat and you can’t eat from it.

QUESTION: We know that you can make dua in sujood and before tasleem in salah in your own language if yoyu do not know how to say it in Arabic. If you do know how to say it Arabic, but choose English, does this invalidate the salah?

23 Jan

ANSWER: Yes.