QUESTION: Do I have to visit my husband’s non-Muslim family when they invite us (including uncles, cousins, etc.)? I don’t feel comfortable there, especially when it’s so crowded. But I wonder if I should go for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala and for my child, or if Allah would be displeased if I don’t go, since it’s my husbands family. What is your advice?

Dealings and Attitudes with In-Laws, Mahram
24 Jan

ANSWER: If there is free mixing, this is totally prohibited even if they are Muslims.

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QUESTION: Heard if an onlooker is watching & hearing, khalwa will be negated so will I avoid taxi seclusion by video calling a mahram who’ll monitor us until non mahram is dropped to destination?

Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram
13 Jan

ANSWER: Yes, in sha Allah 

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QUESTION: If a wife gets divorced in a foreign country, and there are no mahrams nearby, and those in faraway land do not want to spend the huge amounts of $$ to travel, then what should she do?

Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram
13 Dec

ANSWER: She can travel back home without her male mahram due to necessity as Allah had told in the Quran a person can eat pork in dire situations where it’s a matter of life & death. There’s always an exception to the rule due to DIRE necessity.

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QUESTION: When I go to my mother’s sister’s house with my family, they are all mahram to me.But there are non mahrams for my father,mother & sister.So what should I do when they all seat to eat together?As for me there are all mahrams in that house.Is it still free mixing for me?

Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram, Sports, Entertainment and Music
27 Nov

ANSWER: Yes, because you are endorsing and approving of them sitting with one another while knowing they are non mahrams to one another!

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QUESTION: Sheikh does the mother in law become mahram for the husband right after the marriage or does she become mahram only after the husband consumates the marriage with his wife?

Fiqh of Marriage, Mahram
08 Nov

ANSWER: She becomes his mahram right after the nikah is done (consummation is not a condition here)

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QUESTION: Is half sisters and brothers whose father or mother are same are mahram to each other? And they will be maternal paternal uncle and aunt for their sibling’s children and will also be mahram to their children?

Mahram
09 Sep

ANSWER: Whoever you share a father or a mother with is your sibling and mahram to you 

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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: If the family of my uncle (brother of my father) comes (including his wife-my aunt, his little daughters), can I sit with them in gathering or I just do SALAM and leave them. My aunt is in probably 30s. So I am asking with regard to her as she is a non-mehram for me

Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram
21 Jul

ANSWER: This is not permissible as Islam promotes and mandates segregation between non mahrams

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QUESTION: I’m a Muslim woman living in Germany with my family. One Muslim male classmate is alone for Eid. I want to give him a small plate of Eid food in class out of kindness, with no personal intention. Is this permissible?

Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram
04 Jun

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited as it is one of the steps of satan.  This man would think that you are making a pass on him with such a gift.

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QUESTION: If I take my family like mother, sister, daughter or wife to makkah, can they do tawaf or umrah alone or is it compulsory for them to do it with the mahram.

Hajj and Umrah, Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram
25 Apr

ANSWER: No problem in doing it alone. What is not permissible for them is to travel to Makkah without a male mahram.

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