Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners

QUESTION: How can I love myself? As a Muslim scholar what would you recommend to a girl who hates herself cause she doesn’t know her native languages. I can’t even read the Quran cause I’m so embarrassed I don’t know Arabic! Please help.

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Reading/Reciting the Quran

30 Sep

ANSWER: Instead of cursing the dark, light a candle! Start learning Arabic and mastering it.

QUESTION: Am a university student, sometimes I do ask for money from my relatives though I already have some. I do so because at some point my aim is to invest the same money in order to be independent and should not be like a burden to them any more. Is this permissible Sheik?.

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners

29 Sep

ANSWER: This is begging and it is prohibited in Islam. A muslim is a person of dignity and honor and would never humiliate himself like this!

QUESTION: I’m accustomed to using “oh heck” and “damn” when talking with my friends or texting them. Is this imitating the kufr? And am i sinful?

Character and Morals, Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Halal/Haram Matters

18 Sep

ANSWER: This is not permissible as a believer is not a person who curses or uses obscene words or profanity and a person who curses would be deprived from interceding on the day of judgment as the prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam has said.

Allah blessed me with 4 children, 3 sons and 1 daughter but they all died at different ages. 10 months, 15 months, 1.5 year and my daughter died 6 months ago at age of 2.5 years. it has broken us but we are still asking for Sabr from Allah. Sheikh everyone says that your kids will take you to Jannah.i want to ask that will I meet my children soon after my death?

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Fiqh of the family, Funerals

26 Aug

ANSWER: Al hamdu lillah! May Allah ease your calamity and comfort your heart with tranquility. Without a doubt, they will be a barrier for you and their father from hellfire and you will be reunited with them in paradise. This is a test from Allah and losing 2 only suffices and they would take your […]

Sheikh I always spend money on people (buy them juice, sweets, sometimes they need something and I buy it for them and when they give money I refuse), am I musrif?!

Character and Morals, Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Other

22 Aug

ANSWER: No. No problem in spending on people even if they are rich. This is part of a person being generous. It’s sunnah to exchange gifts.

Sheikh can a woman talk with a male shopkeeper, male college administrator,male security man on the phone or message them in WhatsApp for necessity ( to know about price of items ,directions to a place, to order things online etc.)

Character and Morals, Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners

17 Aug

ANSWER: No problem in this as long as you talk only about what’s necessary and not soften your voice.

I gave away a dress to my sisters to use as I had gained weight and could not fit in it anymore. They didn’t use it for so many years. Now, I have again lost weight, so they say that I should take the dress back and wear it. Am I allowed to take it back?

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners

13 Aug

ANSWER: If they give it back without you asking, this is permissible .

If a husband divorces his wife after finding out she was having an affair with someone else,is he sinful if he warns others about her ex-wife (warning other men not to marry her because she commits adultery,telling everyone the reason he divorced her etc.)

Character and Morals, Divorce, Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners

07 Aug

ANSWER: If he does this, he must be flogged 80 lashes for slandering her like this unless he can provide 4 male witnesses to prove his accusations or get a confession of her in front of an Islamic judge or curse himself after swearing by Allah 4 times that she is an adulteress and 5th […]

If I someone angers me I don’t talk bad about them in front of others.Instead I go someplace where no one else is around,then talk to myself and curse them using swear words distinctively to relieve my anger.Am I still sinful? Is it still considered as backbiting?

Character and Morals, Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Halal/Haram Matters

03 Aug

ANSWER: This is not permissible as every word that we utter is being recorded and we will be held accountable for them.

Sheikh, is it correct to not give Salam, shake hands, or interact with the people of innovation?

Character and Morals, Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Innovations

31 Jul

ANSWER: Is it permissible to interact and shake hands with disbelievers, idol worshippers and people of the book? Are they worse or people of innovation?

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