QUESTION: Is it true that Shaitan appears in human form during the time of Sakarat and tries to change our religion?

Funerals
01 Dec

ANSWER: No, there is no evidence from the Quran or Sunnah to back up such a claim. These are stories told by some scholars.

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QUESTION: Father died. family made my paternal uncle wali but i have an elder brother who also agreed & present at wedding.Is my marriage valid as uncle was considered wali? Pls rply

Fiqh of Marriage, Invalid Marriages, Marriage Contract
01 Dec

ANSWER: Your wali is your elder brother. If he authorized your uncle to be your wali, this is valid. Otherwise you need to renew the marriage.

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QUESTION: What should I do when my mother tells me to recharge the Dish TV? I try not to watch TV, but she always shouts at me if I deny. I haven’t watched TV for the last 9 months because my Islamic teacher advised me to stop watching it. What is the Islamic point of view on this? Or if someone watches am I sinful for that?

Character and Morals, Fiqh of the family
30 Nov

ANSWER: You’ll be sinful if you know for sure she watches haram things on tv and you must not help her or assist her on that while trying to explain to her and being diplomatic at the same time.

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QUESTION: What should I do, Sheikh? I’m tired of fighting with my relatives every year about birthdays, New Year etc. Now they’re inviting me to celebrate the New Year again, and I refuse. My mother is very angry and disappointed in me, and all my relatives are turning away from me

Fiqh of the family
30 Nov

ANSWER: If Allah is pleased with you, who cares about others? And when Allah is angry with you, who other would benefit you?

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QUESTION: I live in my fathers home with my wife and intend to move out in the next couple of years. my father wants my wife to inform him before leaving the house, but my wife doesnt like that and says she will inform me only So i politely refused my fathers request. However my father is angry at me. am i sinful for not fulfilling demands of my father

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

ANSWER: Your father has no right, NONE WHATSOEVER on your wife or what she does and where she goes etc as long as she has your consent.

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QUESTION: Is increasing natural disaster can be one of the consequences of spreading sins like homosexuality /increasing adultery/zina & people being silent of this..so can it be punishment from Allah for all of us who do the sins & who remain silent on these sins?

Sins
30 Nov

ANSWER: This is a possibility

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QUESTION: Is it haram if one sleeps with his feet facing towards the qiblah and when one is sitting, laying down on the floor etc?

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Innovations
29 Nov

ANSWER: There’s no problem in this whatsoever

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QUESTION: In congregation or individual prayer, some people in masjid pray first 2 rakats in standing and then after tashahud remaining 2 rakats out of 4 in a ‘sitting’ position itself without any valid reason. Is it permissible and prayer is valid?

Prayer
29 Nov

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited to do in fard prayers without a valid reason & the prayer would be invalid as standing up is a pillar in obligatory prayers.

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QUESTION: I wanted to ask that in the hadith it says to not pray at midday ish time when the sun is overhead because hell is stoked up but throughout the earth, isn’t this time constantly happening?

Prayer
29 Nov

ANSWER: It is constantly happening but if you coincide praying voluntary prayers despite the prohibition, you will get your share of that time, and Allah knows best.  We believe and adhere and do not apply our logic over things we do not see and can’t comprehend except through belief.

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QUESTION: There’s a trans girls in my class and she wants everyone to call her by his boy name. Can I call her by that name although I dont like it just to avoid awkwardness?

Halal/Haram Matters
29 Nov

ANSWER: You must not call her or have anything to do with her. 

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