Fiqh of the family

QUESTION: My mother is forcing me to dance at my cousin’s wedding with a non mahram..I told my mom I won’t dance because it is haram…now she is angry with me and is abusing me and not talking to me since yesterday…what should I do now?

Fiqh of the family, Sports, Entertainment and Music

25 Jan

ANSWER: Remain to be dutiful and respectful despite her behavior but hold your ground and never obey her in something that angers Allah.

QUESTION: My husband and I live in *****, we are both working and got married last year. After marriage, he uses religion only to oppress me. His brother lives with us he tells me to stay in normal clothing and asks me to spend time with him, cook for him and treat him like a son. He is only 2 years younger to me. His parents are also very controlling and create issues if I don’t call them.

Dealings and Attitudes with In-Laws, Fiqh of Marriage, Fiqh of the family

09 Jan

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited! You must put your foot down and never come in front of him like this and never be alone with him in the house. He is obliged to provide you with a separate house. If he doesn’t do that, you are better off leaving him before you conceive from him!

QUESTION: our father passed away 7 yrs ago,he has a sis who is divorcee since more than 50 yrs ,she stay in our native place and we all brothers stay abroad,so it’s not easy for us to visit her and take care of her neither she is in that mental state that she can com and stay with our mother in city so she is old and all alone,what is our duty towards her and what shld we do so that we r not sinful .

Fiqh of the family

09 Jan

ANSWER: If she doesn’t have any siblings or children, you are her heirs if she were to die. You all must arrange a maid to live with her or to check on her and you all should chip in to look after her expenses if she’s in financial need. You all must be in touch […]

QUESTION: What is the married sister’s right over her brother’s income?does she have any right in his income ?

Fiqh of the family

03 Jan

ANSWER: No, she doesn’t have any right unless she is poor and her husband or her father or son is not there to help her financially.

QUESTION: Is it a mandatory on you to give money to your dad during your teen age when he asks you. Cos I have a dad that asks me money alot while I am still schooling and feeding myself with my own money

Fiqh of the family

20 Dec

ANSWER: No, you are not obliged to give him anything unless: 1- You have extra than what you need. 2- He is in real need for that 3- He is not going to use it to help your siblings or anyone else with it.

QUESTION: If a brother who is a millionaire and doesn’t want to pay his own brother’s debt( which is very little ) and instead he wants to build a mosque in his father’s name? As he thinks it is not his duty to pay his brothers debt.. Is this ok?

Fiqh of the family, Loans

27 Nov

ANSWER: That’s his choice. However, stingy people are by nature stingy and this is in their DNA and they won’t be among the successful on the day of Judgment! No Muslim who has his own flesh and blood suffering because of a tiny loan would hesitate to rush to his rescue if he has the […]

QUESTION: As we will be sinful for not obeying our parents will we be rewarded even if we do basic stuff of our parents like giving them water cutting fruits as per her/his commands etc?

Fiqh of the family, Rewards & Punishments

27 Nov

ANSWER: Yes, Alhamdulillah

QUESTION: Is it okay to say ‘on behalf of my father’ in mind or lowering the voice when I give someone anything for my dead father?

Charity, Fiqh of the family

25 Nov

ANSWER: No need to say that as what counts is your intention in your heart that only Allah knows about.

QUESTION: I checked my husbands mails which he left opened in laptop and I found Whatsapp chats and his relationships with his girlfriends 7 years earlier and we have been married since one year. I know I did a sin by checking his past life. But now by reading those chats my heart is broken, I can’t find peace due to my own doing,also my husband knows this too.i ask his forgiveness f

Fiqh of the family

24 Nov

ANSWER: This is what you brought to yourself and marriage with your own hand! It was you who opened this can of worms and it is you who will have to pay the heavy price of such a major sin. You have betrayed the trust of your husband and I don’t know if he is […]

QUESTION: My parents are not treating me and my younger brother equally especially my father. Whenever my younger brother misbehaves with me and I tell my parents they just say I am hurting them and if i choose to discipline my brother myself they use foul language to me and say me vulgar language. What should i do? If i dont talk to my brother, they’

Fiqh of the family

20 Nov

ANSWER: They will be accountable for such injustice but you will be accountable on how you treat them. Be respectful, obedient and dutiful and ignore your younger brother and have nothing to do with him until he behaves himself and respects you.

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