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QUESTION: Have a mother who interferes in my wife’s life excessively as to when to have a child what clothes she must wear and what time she must wake up. She doesn’t let my wife pick out clothes she likes for an event and always has a complain about how it is not nice. She also complains that my wife never served/cooked my side of the family. When she gives me too much pressure I come take it on my wife.

Dealings and Attitudes with In-Laws, Kind Treatment of Spouses

28 May

ANSWER: Your wife does not have to serve her inlaws and has all the rights in the world to her privacy. You need to man up rather than take your mother’s complaints out on your wife! Your wife did not marry you so that you can be a momma’s boy rather she married you so […]

QUESTION: Please I just want to know what your opinion is on genotype and marriage in Islam, because in a lot of cases people tend to break off their engagements due to genotypes not matching. This is something that I’ve witnessed a lot of times and experienced. So please do you think it should be a requirement one should really look at in a potential spouse because?

Fiqh of Marriage, Medicine and medical treatments

28 May

ANSWER: This has nothing to do with Islam and this was never there. It is upto you to accept this marriage. There is nothing wrong in avoiding a marriage based on medical reports that there is a high confirmed possibility that if there were to be children, they would be negatively affected. However, it is […]

QUESTION: If someone does a clear act of kufr but has no intention to leave Islam, have they done kufr?

Apostasy

28 May

ANSWER: Kufr usually needs conviction and intention. If someone does an act of kufr while not knowing that this is kufr or doesn’t have the intention to commit kufr, this is not kufr.

QUESTION: I don’t get the same satisfaction as before when I pray Salah and when I repeat the translation of surah Faatiha in my mind after every verse, I forget everything, and start again, so now I read without repeating the translation in my mind, but still in surah Faatiah, I repeat verses again and again and I feel as if I have made some mistake. Will Allah accept my prayers if i pray without translt?

Prayer

27 May

ANSWER: The prayer is valid. By repeating over and over again, you are obeying satan and making it hard on yourself which makes you lose the sweetness of prayer and this is the objective of satan!

QUESTION: My brother, 1 year older wishes to get married. But since I’m the sister and due for marriage for sum tym, my mom refuses to see/accept the person he wishes to marry, lest it lessens my chance. He worries that mum’s refusal may deter the girl’s family from marrying the girl to my brother. What should be done?

Fiqh of Marriage, Fiqh of the family

27 May

ANSWER: No problem if a brother gets married before his sister is married. He is not obliged to wait or to obey his mother in such illogical reason. If he is financially independent, he should go ahead and get married.

QUESTION: I wanted to know that what will be the ruling if husband had gifted all his property to wife in his lifetime in written with two male witnesses,but he took care of all the matters related to property be it renting or giving tax etc,( he handed over the rent money to wife and asked for the money when needed)after his death what should be the ruling of inheritance will it be wifes?

Fiqh of the family, Inheritance

25 May

ANSWER: If she possessed that property and the deeds were in her name, this is her’s and no one has any right in it with her.

QUESTION: Sheikh, American or someone who belongs to English country, why they called ‘Adam ‘(Edom) instead of Adom, ‘Abraham’ intstead of Ibrahim (A), ‘Moses’ instead of Musa (A), ‘Jesus’ instead of Isa (A), ‘Solomon’ instead of Sulai -man (A), it’s not only non Muslims pronounced it but also Muslim pronounced like that! is that respectful for them (peace be upo

Belief in the Messengers

25 May

ANSWER: This is not their names which Allah has called them with in the Quran and one must not use such names with them without any legitimate reason.

QUESTION: People in my country often when swearing, say ” I swear by Khuda” ….The intention of “Khuda” is Allah of course but as we know saying khuda instead of Allah is not permissible………is this also considered to be minor shirk?

Other

25 May

ANSWER: This is inappropriate as it is not one of Allah’s names.

QUESTION: Is calling someone “Khalik” regarded as Shirk? Can we say that someone is the creator of something, for example, “Mr. X is the creator of this content”?

Halal/Haram Matters, Names and Attributes of Allaah

25 May

ANSWER: It’s not permissible to call someone khaliq since this name is only of Allah! However, no problem in saying that someone created something worldly or someone is a creator of something as this is totally different than something that Allah creates.

QUESTION: I suffer from waswas and don’t want to commit kufr. Many perverts in India has special lust for MUSLIM WOMEN (just because they are Muslimah) If one let’s his womenfolk go out without hijab, isn’t he creating a chance for such enemies of Islam to lust after them? Their action is kufr, right? so will he be helping/not preventing kufr action?

Women clothing

25 May

ANSWER: This type of logic is quite weird and stupid! Such a dayyouth doesn’t have to worry about the enemies of Islam running after his womenfolk or Muslim perverts designing them! It’s all the same! They are all looking for public toilets and this dayyouth is providing that to them. This is a major sin […]

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