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QUESTION: My fiancé studies in a freemixing university and gets angry when I tell her not to freemix and not to upload pictures with boys as audience. I love her very much and want to marry her. Shaykh, I’m very depressed as I don’t want her to freemix. What to do Shaykh ? My heart breaks when boys see her but I love her more than anything except my mother.

Engagement, Pre-Marital Relations

23 May

ANSWER: You are sinful for communicating with this woman as she is a non mahram to you and she is not yet your wife. You must stop all communications with her. The prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam had told us that there are 3 categories of people who won’t enter paradise and he mentioned […]

QUESTION: Sheikh, I have a question that many dirty & filthy thoughts come to my mind, I try to think or do something else, but it comes back, how do I completely prevent them from coming to my mind, I am 15 years old.

Other

23 May

ANSWER: You must ignore such thoughts as these are from Satan trying to corrupt your mind and distract you from finding the sweetness of prayers and recitation of the Quran. Try to occupy yourself with remembering Allah and learning more about Islam while surrounding yourself with righteous practicing Muslims all the time. Try not to […]

QUESTION: In college we had a function and our performance got on youtube somehow. I now do regret it, did tauba immensely but can’t remove it from there. Now I plan to counter that continuous sin with sadaqa jariyah is that ok for me to do? Like sponsor quran hafiz, set up well etc. I don’t want to ruin my grave life for that and want to minimize that sin anyhow. Deen is most important to me now.

Social Media

23 May

ANSWER: No problem.

QUESTION: Is it shirk to keep the soft copy of the photo of a deceased on a phone or PC? If a person doesn’t talk to it or address it, will it be considered as shirk? What about storing old photos or old things as memory?

Funerals, Images and image-making

23 May

ANSWER: This is not shirk. It is prohibited and sinful though.

QUESTION: In today’s generation in Muslim community people of groom side ask for dowry indirectly by taking dawat from them, they ask the bride’s father to give dawat for 200/250 people for iftar etc etc , not thinking about their middle class situation. What kind of sin is it that those rich groom side in laws taking money off from the bride even though her mahr isn’t even equal to the cost her father give

Dowry

23 May

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited and the father of the bride must not concede to that as this is part of Hinduism and has nothing to do with Islam.

QUESTION: In a building which has 2 floors, the first floor is doctors office and the the 2nd floor is a masjid. Is it ok to pray Jumuah in that masjid?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

23 May

ANSWER: If there is no close by real masjid, this is permissible.

QUESTION: Sheikh, Is it permissible for me to pray to get married to a person who is not a believer? I’ve been praying 6 times a day including tahajjud to Allah to make him a believer and to guide him. Should I continue or should I quit knowing that Allah didn’t choose him as a Muslim in the first place? Also, is it advised for me to ask them to believe in allah or not as it should be their own decision ?

Fiqh of Marriage, Religions

23 May

ANSWER: You should not pray for such a person! Ask Allah for someone who is a real Muslim and who would protect you and be a good father to your children. So many marriages to such “reverts” end up miserably because their Islam was not genuine or because their Islam was weak.

QUESTION: Need justifaction about your answer on pakistan situation, first of all sheikh u dont need to be political and 2nd u dont know the current polical happining in pak 3rd did you know that protest allowed in democarcy and pakistan is so called democratic country and last but not least that constitution of pakistan clearly mantion that it is the right of CM to desolve assembly at any time and then constitution also said that election

Halal/Haram Matters, Islamic Politics

23 May

ANSWER: I am a Muslim and I refer to Quran and Sunnah with the understanding of the 3 favorite generations. We follow what scholars of Islam say and not what hooligans say or do! People with no Islamic knowledge and laymen should remain silent when issues of great importance to the Ummah is taking place. […]

QUESTION: We gave some money as qarz to someone in foreign currency now many years has been passed and currency rate has changed Are we sinful if we demand the qarz back in same currency in which it was given to them? There was no agreement at that time about currency

Islamic economy

23 May

ANSWER: You must take back the same currency you gave to them. If you gave it to them in rupees, you must take it back in rupee. But if you gave it to them in dollars, you must take them back in dollars.

QUESTION: A lot of people openly criticize Muslim leaders because they have trade relations or political alliance with countries that oppress Muslims. Is it wrong of me to say that perhaps this can be seen as a strategic approach to help those Muslims as I know it’s also wrong to openly criticize Muslim leaders and we should give the benefit of the doubt A lot of people openly criticize Muslim leaders

Islamic Politics

22 May

ANSWER: It is best that you don’t engage with such people in arguments as they have nothing better to do than to argue and debate all the time. Focus on learning your religion and gaining knowledge that would draw you closer to Allah rather than defending rulers or justifying their actions! Such arguments corrupt the […]

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