Basic Tenets of Faith

QUESTION: In Tawheed Rububiyah, it says Allah is the only one who can create, take away a person’s soul at death, etc. But we know that Allah empowers the angel of death to take away the soul at death. So I was wondering, does Allah also empower angels to do tasks like creation, sovereignty, control, or other tasks which are unqiue to Him? Also am I kafir for not knowing the answer to this question?

11 Jun

ANSWER: Allah may delegate tasks such as taking souls out or rain fall to some of His angels as to carry things with His command and enabling them to do such tasks. Creation can only be done by Allah which is creating things from nothing.

QUESTION: Is it kufr if someone does not believe that allah is the one who wanted and destined for someone to be a muslim or a kafir. for example if someone accepted islam, allah destined for him to accept islam not only because he knew he would accept it but because he wanted him to, and if allah wanted he could have destined for the same person to be a kafir.

Basic Tenets of Faith, Divine Will and Decree

28 Jul

ANSWER: Denying pre-destiny and the divine decree is kufr.

QUESTION: I found a small pouch in my father’s car that seems to contain soil or sand. He believes it offers protection for him or the car — essentially, it appears to be a taweez. Would it be permissible for me to discreetly empty the contents and replace them with regular soil, so that he doesn’t notice the change?

Basic Tenets of Faith, Fiqh of Marriage, Shirk and its different forms, Superstitions

21 Jun

ANSWER: This is not permissible and it won’t change his aqeedah! Speak to him directly about it.

QUESTION: I’ve a lot of childhood trauma, so in my marriage I get frustrated at small things. I know this is wrong and I’m seeking counselling for it. I can’t look past my husbands humans errors, eg if he comes home late/forgets to do something. Does this anger at him and refusal to accept his mistakes mean I am not believing and accepting Allah’s Qadr?

Basic Tenets of Faith, Divine Will and Decree

16 May

ANSWER: This can be related to your belief in qadar when you refuse to acknowledge that this was already predestined by Allah and blaming him for something he forgot or making an issue of this or that shows that your iman is weak! You need to love the prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam and […]

QUESTION: While doing any good deed or praying, sometimes a question comes to my mind whether I am doing these to please Allah or to get jannah? Is it a serious issue or a waswas of Shaitan? (If serious issue.. please show me the right way)

Basic Tenets of Faith

19 May

ANSWER: We do good deeds and worship Allah to please Him and to seek jannah! Only deviant sufis say they worship Allah to please Him and not to seek jannah which is totally wrong and a deviant aqeedah

QUESTION: All religions claim they are the truth but how can we be sure Islam is the truth

Basic Tenets of Faith

22 Dec

ANSWER: If you are in doubt about your religion and you don’t have certainty, you my friend are in a big problem! How can you prove to someone in the middle of the day that the sun is in the sky if he doesn’t want to admit it? All what is in this universe directs […]