QUESTION: Sheikh, I’ve heard that eating haram food makes it so that dua is rejected for 40 days. Is this true?

Halal/Haram Matters, Supplications
18 Apr

ANSWER: No.

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QUESTION: Can I make hijra alone if I am a woman? My parents can’t because they want to follow medical treatment for my disabled brother, but I can’t stand being in the land of Kufr.

Halal/Haram Matters
16 Apr

ANSWER: This is not permissible as the fitna of being alone in a strange land is far grater than being with your parents and family in a Kafir land.

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QUESTION: Is it permissible to clink glasses while we drink something without saying cheers?

Halal/Haram Matters
12 Apr

ANSWER: This is not permissible as this is imitating the disbelievers.

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QUESTION: My question is what is the Islam ruling on women vlogging there lifestyle on YouTube is it permissible or not

Halal/Haram Matters, Social Media
09 Apr

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited. 

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QUESTION: There are many people non Muslim country who want money to make masjids in there country so if I donate money and they build masjid and they may follow innovations there. Will I be sinful? Should I donate to build masjid where I will not have any authority to stop innovations?

Halal/Haram Matters
07 Apr

ANSWER: You must investigate before giving and not donate to masjids that do innovations so that you don’t take part in innovation or endorse such sinful things. 

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QUESTION: Someone sent me a birthday card (Online) to invite us. And when I I said that we don’t celebrate birthdays so we can’t come that person said we are actually not celebrating any birthday. It’s just a dinner. There won’t be a cake as well. Also, the actual birth date is 10 days before the day of celebration/dinner. What should we do? Are we allowed to go as we shouldn’t deny any invitation?

Halal/Haram Matters
05 Apr

ANSWER: If the invitation says it’s regarding birthday then you must not go. The invitation that must not be rejected is that of walima, providing you have no excuse to reject (it must be a halal function with no music, no free mixing between non mahrams etc)

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QUESTION: We need to finish every seed of the pomegranate when we eat it as it’s a fruit of jannah,can we throw the leftover if it’s sour or for any other reason?

Halal/Haram Matters
31 Mar

ANSWER: No problem in throwing what you don’t like of it and you don’t need to eat it all. Just because it is a fruit of Jannah, this doesn’t give it any speciality in this life. 

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QUESTION: I have a friend who works for a bank in Canada. They are aware their money is haram. They are currently studying with the intention of finding a halal career while still working at the bank. Unfortunately, they are unable to quit as they are the sole provider for their family. The question is: how should they go about cleansing their haram money once they are able to quit.

Halal/Haram Matters
31 Mar

ANSWER: Whatever they have in their possession must be given to the poor and needy as a form of cleansing. What they have used and consumed is already gone and they can’t do anything about that. 

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QUESTION: Is it permissible to not lower the gaze without lust and desire?

Halal/Haram Matters
29 Mar

ANSWER: No. Allah has ordered you to lower the gaze, whether you feel lust or not!

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QUESTION: Is my fast accepted if I have a girlfriend and I talk and travel with her?

Fasting and Ramadan, Halal/Haram Matters
25 Mar

ANSWER: Your fasting is valid as long as you don’t do anything that nullifies it but you are sinful big time and the reward of your fasting is minimized by the number of sins you are committing. 

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