QUESTION: I am thinking of starting a business where I will build a platform for many other businesses to put discounts they provide for customers to see in one place. But I’m worried some fashion businesses for example may post discounts for haram clothes or post photos with uncovered women. Am I responsible for this?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
28 Aug

ANSWER: If you provide the platform and they post haram on it then yes, you’re responsible for it.

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QUESTION: Is it Haram to send my male cousin a picture of something i want him to order for me in private chat, no chitchating.

Fiqh of the family, Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram
26 Aug

ANSWER: This is not permissible. Ask your brother or your father to do that for you. You must have no communication with the opposite gender at all.

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QUESTION: My wife wants me to go out with her brother and his girlfriend for dinner, permissible? Her brother is non Muslim.

Character and Morals, Halal/Haram Matters
20 Aug

ANSWER: No, you must not go as this is normalizing or halalizing their Haram relationship!

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QUESTION: If one has dolls from childhood and keeps it in their house without a need, are they sinful?

Halal/Haram Matters
20 Aug

ANSWER: Yes, they are sinful.

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QUESTION: There is a watch with a small snoopy cartoon on it, is it permissible to buy and wear? Snoopy is a cartoon drawn as an outline of dog features with dots for eyes. The omega moonswatch unfortunately has it on the dial tho I’d prefer it without the cartoon.

Beautification & Cosmetic Suregry, Halal/Haram Matters, Images and image-making
18 Aug

ANSWER: This is not permissible 

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QUESTION: Sheikh, Can we buy cats ? Because I heard that a Muslim shouldn’t buy a cat.

Halal/Haram Matters
13 Aug

ANSWER: It’s not permissible to buy or sell cats

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QUESTION: Can one be in a group chat with one’s previous classmate(boys and girls) with no elderly person in the group?

Character and Morals, Halal/Haram Matters
13 Aug

ANSWER: This is not permissible even if there’s an elderly person in the group cuz this comes under free mixing between non mahrams which is prohibited in islam 

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QUESTION: Is it permissible to do cartoon puzzles that involve assembling faces, while playing with my 3-year-old nephew

Halal/Haram Matters, Images and image-making, Pedagogy education and upbringing
13 Aug

ANSWER: This is not permissible

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QUESTION: If one goes fishing for food and catches a cool fish. Is it ok for him to now not eat it and display it in his home?

Halal/Haram Matters
13 Aug

ANSWER: This is not permissible!

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QUESTION: Is freelancing for a company/individual I have limited information about as to whether their activities are halal or haram considered a haram income?

Halal/Haram Matters, Islamic economy
12 Aug

ANSWER: It is not haram income unless their activities are actually haram. Your job is halal as long as your job description is halal and you are not collaborating with them on haram! It is illogical to work for a company or an individual only to learn later on that they deal in haram which […]

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