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QUESTION: Indian government-backed companies offer long-term investment schemes, such as paying ₹6,000 monthly for 17 years to receive ₹25 lakhs after 20-25 years. Is it halal or haram to invest?

Riba

30 Jun

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited as fixed profit is riba and one of the major sins in Islam for which Allah has waged a war against people who deal with it (riba)

QUESTION: After my father’s death we discovered he has a 4/5 yrs daughter from an extramarital affair theres no nikah/marriage certificate only birth certificate naming him as the father. Does she have any inheritance rights? Are we obligated to provide for them? Should we offer to take in the child with us? What is the most just, merciful action to protect my father from punishment? Please help.

Illegitimate children & Lost property, Inheritance

30 Jun

ANSWER: If he wasn’t married to her mother and he had never disclosed it or claimed her to be his daughter, she has no right in anything as she was born out of wedlock and is not related to you.

QUESTION: I learned that buying and selling in masjid is haram but what if I’m hungry or thirsty and the masjid sells dates water etc, what to do?

Rulings on mosques

30 Jun

ANSWER: What kind of a quesiton is this? There are no shops to buy food in the whole city except inside the masjid? It is not permissible to buy or sell inside the masjid regardless.

QUESTION: My friend and I jokingly make funny stories about our other friends while they are not present. Is this considered backbiting?

Backbiting

30 Jun

ANSWER: Of course this is backbiting!

QUESTION: Is it okay to sit on the bed and eat? My aunt says it brings poverty and we shouldn’t eat on the bed

Halal/Haram Matters

30 Jun

ANSWER: 1. No problem in this 2. What she says is absolutely baseless and fabricated!

QUESTION: My father and my brothers want me to divorce my husband and are threatening me that they will cut off every kind of relationship with me if I don’t divorce him

Divorce, Fiqh of the family, Halal/Haram Matters

29 Jun

ANSWER: If your husband is a good man and they had agreed to him earlier, ignore their demand even if it leads to cutting you off and disowning you as they are wrongdoers and they are transgressing by asking you to do such a heinous thing

QUESTION: Does a person leave islam if they watch shows that disrespect Allah or prophets in a scene

Halal/Haram Matters, Sports, Entertainment and Music

29 Jun

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited to watch!! What kind if Islam remains in your heart when you watch such filth willingly?

QUESTION: I know that gold and silver utensils are prohibited. My question is that is it prohibited if the utensils are gold-coloured and are not actually made from gold?

Halal/Haram Matters

28 Jun

ANSWER: No problem in the color, what’s prohibited is real gold and silver

QUESTION: When my mother sends sadaqah, she spins the money over my head then gently taps my head with the money before going to send it, is this bidah?

Innovations

28 Jun

ANSWER: Yes, this is an innovation!

QUESTION: Is it permissible to not do a sin for the sake wanting your future spouse to not do the same sin, for instance, you lower your gaze so you want your future spouse to also lower their gaze?

Fiqh of Marriage

28 Jun

ANSWER: You refrain from sins because Allah prohibited them. You not doing it doesn’t guarantee that they didn’t do it or won’t do it in the future.

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