In subcontinent, Many people kiss the book/pen if their feet accidentally touched book/pen etc. is it permissible? Some also touch that book/pen in forehead.

Innovations, Reading/Reciting the Quran
05 Apr

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and an innovation. 

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I Heard In A Nasheed Saying This For The Mother “You Are My Angel” Also People Call Daughters “Angel”. It Is Permissible To Say “Angel” To Mother Or Daughter? Someone Said To Me: “It’s Wrong Angels Are Angels And They Are Humans” What’s Truth?

Belief in the Angels, Halal/Haram Matters
05 Apr

ANSWER: This is not permissible at all.

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Explanation of ”don’t serve your food except to a pious person ”.

Character and Morals, Commentary on Hadeeth
05 Apr

ANSWER: The hadeeth is a recommendation that one must not share his food or invite to eat it except those who are righteous and pious.

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If I start a business with a partner with equal investments in the businessand agree to share profit in a 50:50 ratio, would it be permissible for me to give him a sum of money later on (which will be used for my partner’s personal use) and increase my percentage share of profit in return? Or would this be riba?

Halal/Haram Matters
05 Apr

ANSWER: No problem in negotiating the percentages of profit after sometime and changing the capital investment ratio 

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I use the Indian style toilet to relieve myself. After finishing doing the istinja of the back passage with my left hand, has my hand become impure? I have used my hand to clean the impurity with water but does that make my hand impure.

Purity
05 Apr

ANSWER: If your hand has managed to clean your anus, this means that the water used has also cleaned your hands. If there are no signs of impurity on your hand, this means it is pure.

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I m a boy in 12th. I hv uni entrance & final exams after ramadan that decides my future. My parents want me 2 just pray fard salah and taraweeh. They dont want me to spend time praying sunnah which i was praying all. They wont be happy if i spend time reading quran. I understand their concern. But i dont want 2 miss this chance of getting closer 2allah and be forgiven. What shoud i do?

Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl
05 Apr

ANSWER:   If this has no impact on your studies as all, continue to worship Allah but be diplomatic with them 

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My father has not been talking to his brother since about 19 years, and we don’t have his number as well… I’m 20 now. I have not met or spoken to my paternal uncle since then. He lives in a foreign Country. How should I maintain my ties with my paternal uncle in such a case? How should I start it? I have never spoken to him but I fear Allah

Character and Morals, Fiqh of the family
05 Apr

ANSWER: Try to get his number and call him and introduce yourself to him

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Could you please clarify the hadeeth that talks about a dream should not be interpreted by someone whose not an expert or pious. Sometimes one has random dreams from your mind that have no meaning just things from real life popping in dreams. Can those be talked about.

Dreams
04 Apr

ANSWER: There is no such hadeeth. The hadeeth says that you should not tell good dreams except to people who love you and would interpret it in a good way.

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About Taraweeh at Time square – Do you have any comments on it, Sheikh?

Other, Religions, Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl
04 Apr

ANSWER: Each country has its own situation and circumstances. We must weigh the pros and cons of every action and measure the impact on non Muslims to see whether it is appropriate or not! Muslims have their own masjids and should pray there and not pray in the middle of the market place like this […]

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Shaikh, I am from Bangladesh, a group of people collect zakat money and buy iftar items through this money and give these iftar items to poor fasting muslims. Can I give my zakat money to this group? Is it permissible the way they spend the zakat money?

Zakat
04 Apr

ANSWER: Zakat should be given in cash to poor and needy Muslims in their and they will do as they wish with it. If the poor authorize him to buy food items with the zakat money for them then only it becomes permissible. 

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