QUESTION: Here in kashmir we don’t marry during month of muharram and safar in order to avoid any celebrations I want to ask is this permissible or just a biddah

Innovations, Sects
23 Jul

ANSWER: This is an innovation and imitating the shia.

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QUESTION: Is it true, that the moment we hit or bump ourselves into something (eg. finger burns/cuts or toe hits into a table) and the pain you feel at that second, whatever dua you make at that moment is accepted?

Innovations
23 Jul

ANSWER: This is baseless.

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QUESTION: Spin wheel where there you spin a wheel and where it stops you get that prize or money or thing & claw machine where you give money,then you use the claw to pick up the gift.If someone does this will his prayers be valid?

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music
22 Jul

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited. 

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QUESTION: If a girl is forced into a marriage by her family against her will, will the marriage still stand ? What does islam say about this ?

Fiqh of Marriage, Invalid Marriages
22 Jul

ANSWER: If she agrees to get married, the marriage is valid. If she fights it and resists his attempts to approach her, the marriage is invalid. 

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QUESTION: Can animals see angels and jinns?

Jinn, Witchcraft, Black Magic and the Evil Eye, Other
22 Jul

ANSWER: We know that animals can hear what humans and jinn can’t. Whether animals can see angels and devils, this is something that we don’t have knowledge of. 

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QUESTION: In Jannah, will we remember negative aspects of our earthly life?

Paradise and Hell
22 Jul

ANSWER: No.

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QUESTION: How to articulate letters like ayn and haa when reciting silently. It takes a lot pressure from me to articulate them like i am out of my breath

Prayer, Reading/Reciting the Quran
21 Jul

ANSWER: These are all whispers from satan! You don’t need tajweed when you are reciting silently nor to make sure that you made the correct pronunciation as this is from satan. 

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QUESTION: As our beloved prophet (pbuh) used to love and care for animals as well, I heard that once a cat was sleeping in the prophet’s lap and Azan called, and the prophet (pbuh) cut out his shirt to not disturb the cat and went for namaz. Is this true?

Other
21 Jul

ANSWER: This is baseless. 

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QUESTION: Is dua of new year authentic? Question in Detail: اللهم ادخله علينا بالأمن والإيمان والسلامة والإسلام ورضوان من الرحمن و جوار من الشيطان Sheikh is this dua authentic?

Innovations, Supplications
21 Jul

ANSWER: This is not authentic. 

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QUESTION: Maghrib and isha’a were joined in our local masjid without any of the conditions being met, the sky being quite cloudy was the basis of thier decision. I was in a dilema wether to correct them while the iqama was being said, leave the rows, or join them. But i feared that if i didn’t join there wouldn’t be a congregation to pray isha with at the normal time. Was my prayer invalid since i knew?

Prayer
21 Jul

ANSWER: Yes. You must repeat your isha.

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