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Can a girl marry at 27?She wants to graduate university(&look after her family’s finance as her father will be 65 years then)&also study to be a daee&hafiz& learn arabic as it is not possible to take care of house after marriage & study at the same time?Also parents & siblings are not practicing muslims & she being with them is influencing them positively.Here,girls can get married at this age.

Fiqh of Marriage, Fiqh of the family

18 May

ANSWER: She should accept marrying a suitable practicing suitor if he comes her way and not delay that as chances come only once. So many women rejected a good suitor only to end up being unmarried their whole lives or only getting proposals from 60 year old men looking for a nurse to take care […]

My mum has previously told me that I can not change my surname to my husband’s once I get married. However my husband is saying that is wrong and I must change my surname to his surname. He even brought local imam to our house and the imam told me that I’m sinning for not listening to my husband.Please tell me what is correct according to Islam. I haven’t done anything yet.Need clarification.

Fiqh of Marriage, Halal/Haram Matters

18 May

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited and one of the major sins in Islam! This imam is either an imposter or a total ignorant! Hold your grounds and do not change your name which your father gave to you!

During one of the days of ramadan I was cutting my nails and it caused a bit of bleeding (only small amount). But as I sensed there would be bleeding I pushed on it a little bit to see if it was really going to bleed/make it come out quicker. Do I have to repeat that day? Is this comparable to cupping although its a very small amount of blood?

Fasting

18 May

ANSWER: Your fast is valid as bleeding doesn’t impact its validity.

Please kindly explain what is the right way to pray witr. In a masjid I went to, it was two units first, a tasleem and then we got up for the one unit. In another masjid, the imam just prayed the three continuously without Tashahud In between. Which is the correct way of praying it

Prayer

18 May

ANSWER: Both are correct. What is not permissible is to pray witr like maghrib by sitting in the tashahhud after two rakahs and to get up and pray a third rakah like Maghrib.

I am from Bangladesh. Our shaikhs often told us that if someone like a son touches his mother with intimacy, that makes the relationship haram between his father and mother. They also said that if my father touches my wife with intimacy, then she will be prohibited for me. Is it true?

Invalid Marriages

17 May

ANSWER: This is absolutely false and such people who say this don’t have knowledge in either the Quran or sunnah!

I am from pakistan in my village imam told us that taraweeh is 20rakah and its compulsory to pray 20 not 8.if some1 is praying 8 it is not acceptable and on the day of judgement he will b punished bcoz he prayed 8raka not 20.can u pls explain with daleel that i will show him your massage with daleel.

Prayer, Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl

17 May

ANSWER: What he has said is absolutely baseless and wrong, he is talking without knowledge.

I am a revert and I was told Shirk is the greatest sin in Islam and Allah forgives all sins except Shirk. Also that whoever commits shirk will never enter Jannat. During jahiliyah I committed shirk does it mean the records of shirk are still in my book despite me embracing Islam?

Repentance, Shirk and its different forms

17 May

ANSWER: Allah forgives all sins, including shirk as long as the person sincerely repents to Allah while showing deep remorse. However, if a person dies without repenting from shirk, this is what Allah doesn’t forgive and that person is doomed in hell forever.

I know we should make up missed fast then the shawaal as per the hadith to get reward but some say as aisha r.a delayed missed fast so it is permissible to makeup missed fast after shawal fast to get reward of 1yr fasting .can u elaborate this particular Hadith regarding shawal fast& their logic?

Fasting

17 May

ANSWER: Mother Aisha’s delaying her missed days of Ramadan till Shaaban means that she didn’t fast the 6 days of shawwal.

Is it permissible to have a plaque on a grave to identify the person and what is permissible to be inscribed on it. Can we have dates they passed away and some form of religious Quran text as well as loving husband or father. Does it have to be limited to just the name?

Funerals

16 May

ANSWER: No problem in having a headstone with deceased name for identifying the grave but it’s totally prohibited to inscribe or write ayahs of Quran on the stone or to resemble the way of the Christians by using marble or the likes for decoration!

Shaikh raising hand and giving salutations on prophet during qunoot of witr is prefer or not,bcoz it is not proven from Prophet ﷺ but it is proven from other sahabi?

Prayer

16 May

ANSWER: It’s the sunnah to raise hands in qunoot.

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