QUESTION: I recently heard that in some areas of Pakistan, people dig a woman’s grave deeper than a man’s. The explanation given was that women supposedly commit more sins, so their graves are made deeper so that their cries during punishment are not heard. Is there any basis for this belief in Islam or in authentic Islamic teachings about burial?

Funerals, Innovations
08 Oct

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and what they are doing is absolutely wrong and has nothing to do with Islam 

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QUESTION: Is it true that we should always enter the toilet with our heads covered?

Innovations, Women clothing
04 Sep

ANSWER: No! This is not from Islam! It might be from Hinduism.

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QUESTION: Is it an innovation to recite surah Yaseen and Waqia after Fajar and Maghrib daily and read astaghfirullah 1000 times or more or any other dua like Hazrat Musa’s dua daily 311 times or more?

Innovations, Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran, Supplications
29 Aug

ANSWER: Yes, this is an innovation.

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QUESTION: My father follows hanafi madhab blindly when I stand beside him in salah and raise my hands he holds my hand and put them down what should I do? Can I pray like hanafi madhab in front of him?

Innovations, Prayer, Schools of Thought
18 Aug

ANSWER: Don’t pray with him and pray in the masjid

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QUESTION: Sheikh I know that Reciting SadaqallahulAzeem is a bida’ah Then why is it written in masjid al haraam near the saee’ region of safa and Marwa on the top after a quranic ayah

Innovations, Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran
12 Aug

ANSWER: Its presence there doesn’t make it Sunnah; it’s still a bid’ah to say it after reciting Qur’an, let alone writing it on the walls!

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QUESTION: If a person’s parents give their zakah to an organization they fully trust where the organization’s founder is known to be Deobandi that, is it alright for this person to give them his zakah or must he look elsewhere, where he wants to know if his parents’ trust towards this organization is a justification for him to give his zakah to that organization.

Innovations, Zakat
09 Aug

ANSWER: He must give it to someone trustworthy and not to people of innovation

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QUESTION: Is it permissible to kill spiders? I have arachnophobia (fear of spiders), there are times I can’t sleep because Ive imagined one. I call my dad or brother to take them out but sometimes they kill them even though I tell them not to. But I still call them because I don’t know what else to do. Am I sinful for this?

Halal/Haram Matters, Innovations
04 Aug

ANSWER: There’s no problem, none whatsoever in killing spiders!

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QUESTION: After marriage, inlaws had a condition that wife have to give salam by bowing down and touching legs every occasion, Friday and pray accordingly to hanafi style. The wife is forced to do otherwise alot of anger problems arouse in the house if she doesn’t do it. Deep in her heart she knows this is wrong and cries out to Allah every night. What can she do in this

Dealings and Attitudes with In-Laws, Innovations
02 Aug

ANSWER: She must stand her grounds and not compromise her beliefs. She should also demand form her husband a segregated separate home where she is not forced to meet up with her in laws and face such situations.

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QUESTION: Sheikh,I know it’s against haya 2 ask this type of ques, but I’m really wrried.I recently found out that after a woman’s period,when she does ghusl,she not only has 2 wash her private part (which I knew),but also has 2 insert her index finger inside it.They say if she doesn’t,the ghusl isn’t complete. Is that true?I tried, but I’m not able 2 do it, & I’m fling very stressed

Innovations, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Purity
31 Jul

ANSWER: What they have said is totally baseless and fabricated!

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QUESTION: Is it true that there is a hadith that mentions spending on family on the day of aashura, provides barakah throughout the year?

Innovations
07 Jul

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and fabricated!

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