QUESTION: Is it permissible to ask siblings for money or is it considered begging?

Character and Morals, Halal/Haram Matters
01 Aug

ANSWER: It is a form of begging unless you are in real need of it.

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QUESTION: Is it permissible to wipe over the socks even if there is no like abnormal hardship? Like I’m just at home, and it’s hard for me to do literally anything cuz like yeh that’s just me.

Ablution (Wudhu)
01 Aug

ANSWER: No problem, even if you don’t have any reason. 

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QUESTION: I wanted to know that is it permissible to wash each part of the areas that you wash in wudu just one time each?

Ablution (Wudhu)
31 Jul

ANSWER: No problem in washing it once as this is from the sunnah

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QUESTION: Is giving money to a mazar shirk if it’s done to please Allah? What about just donation? Is just giving money regardless of any type of reason makes it kufur?

Shirk and its different forms
31 Jul

ANSWER: Giving money to a dargah or a place where shirk is committed is an act of shirk 

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QUESTION: Sheikh,I know it’s against haya 2 ask this type of ques, but I’m really wrried.I recently found out that after a woman’s period,when she does ghusl,she not only has 2 wash her private part (which I knew),but also has 2 insert her index finger inside it.They say if she doesn’t,the ghusl isn’t complete. Is that true?I tried, but I’m not able 2 do it, & I’m fling very stressed

Innovations, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Purity
31 Jul

ANSWER: What they have said is totally baseless and fabricated!

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QUESTION: I know men shouldn’t work during Jummah time, but does this apply to women too? My mother is a tailor and works during Jummah. She’s our only support since my father isn’t with us. She stitches and has one person working under her. Is it wrong for her to work at that time?

Prayer
30 Jul

ANSWER: No problem in this at all as Friday prayer is not obligatory upon women

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QUESTION: I reverted to Islam and married a Muslim man. Before reverting, I was married to a christian and I have a son from this marriage who is staying with my parents (his grandparents). My present Muslim husband wants me to break ties with my son from former marriage. Is my husband right from Islamic point of view?

Fiqh of Marriage, Fiqh of the family, Step Relations and Related Matters
30 Jul

ANSWER: No, he’s not right and it’s not permissible for you to break ties with your son. He has no right in ordering you to sever your ties of kinship with your own son !

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QUESTION: In the Haramain, when the imam is leading prayers in the mosque, some people pray outside due to a lack of space. Will they receive additional rewards (100,000 and 1,000 x) for praying alongside the imam?

Hajj and Umrah, Prayer
30 Jul

ANSWER: Yes, in sha Allah, as long as the rows are connected

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QUESTION: What is the difference between a Kafir, a Murtad, and a Mulhid? Aren’t they just the same thing?

Apostasy
29 Jul

ANSWER: Kafir: Non-Muslim  Murtad: Muslim who leaves Islam, apostate  Mulhid: The one who doesn’t believe in Allah.

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QUESTION: Can i go running outside (not at the running track because of freemixing) with shorts but i’ll wear an under armour tight under the shorts (im a guy). because its holidays and i want to do something before school opens? note: *IF* i dont wear the tights some of my thigh will be uncovered but wearing the tights my thigh will be covered also i dont have shorts long to cover my knees

Men Clothing
29 Jul

ANSWER: It’s not permissible to wear shorts that expose the awrah and the leggings won’t make it halal. It’s not permissible if their awrah is exposed as tights would reveal the shape of the thighs as if they are not wearing anything! 

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