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QUESTION: I have an close muslim friend that i have advised for many years and allhamdulliah he is getting better with salah and overall.And he ask my for advise in islam. But somtimes he does the oppesite like buy house on riba or talking to oppesite gender.. I feel like leaving him as a friend… what should

Character and Morals, Knowledge & Propagation

06 May

ANSWER: Keep advising him every now and then, with good manners, knowledge and choosing the appropriate time & place without policing or nagging him. No one is perfect and you are not his mother. As long as he listens and does many of the things you advise him to do, this is great.

QUESTION: If a person peels his lip skin and swallow it does it break fast?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan

06 May

ANSWER: Yes, if done intentionally

QUESTION: I was born out of wedlock, my father is Christian and his whole family, my father accepted me and he told his family later, for now some of his sisters and brothers we communicate. So I’m still obliged to maintain ties of kinship, because some live abroad and we haven’t met, many cousins are girls, so how to maintain ties of kinship.

Mahram, Step Relations and Related Matters

06 May

ANSWER: As long as he claimed you as his son and he is your biological father and your mother did not have any previous relationships when she gave birth to you, he is your father and you should maintain your ties of kinship with his siblings as they are your uncles and aunts. Your female […]

QUESTION: Is it a most when performing ablution all the three times you are washing a part you don’t leave a spot .

Ablution (Wudhu), OCD

06 May

ANSWER: When you make wudu normally, the limbs are all wet by default. Overthinking about it is a sign of ocd which would destroy your life.

QUESTION: For a kaffarah,if a person is feeding same 2 poor person for 5 days to complete the 10. Is it okay?

Oaths

05 May

ANSWER: This is totally unacceptable. He has fed only 2 and he must feed another 8 different people!

QUESTION: If I sue my employer for pending dues in court which they refuse to pay or have caused me financial loss due to their bad actions such as illegal termination, can I request the judge to also make the employer pay for mental agony?

Halal/Haram Matters

05 May

ANSWER: No, there is no such thing in Islam that you can ask for compensation for!

QUESTION: Approximately how long was the Prophet’s prayer (Peace be upon him)? If someone’s prayer may exceed twenty minutes when just praying fardh, is it normal?

Prayer

05 May

ANSWER: We don’t have an estimate for the length of the prophet’s prayer salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam. 20 minutes can be acceptable if someone is praying alone and he is not repeating things or doing things out of OCD.

QUESTION: In Bangladesh, men divorce by signing a document where it is written “I divorce my wife,” and local scholars consider it valid. Is signing divorce valid in Islam? or must it be spoken? Can someone in Bangladesh follow local scholarly opinions on this?

Divorce

05 May

ANSWER: If he intended the divorce when he signed it, this is a valid divorce.

QUESTION: Is it permissible for a person to marry a person that does bid’ah, but not to their aqeedah, rather just worship.

Fiqh of Marriage

05 May

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible

QUESTION: The recommendation in quran of Reciting quran is at tahajjud or after fajr? Or do we hv to recite in Salah or except the Salah ?

Prayer, Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran

04 May

ANSWER: If you are referring to the ayah of the Quran being witnessed, this is related to fajr prayers.

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