QUESTION: What is assisting in Kufr that takes one out the fold of Islam, for example if one hands a tea pot to someone and they know that the person they handed the teapot would drink it and share it in a gathering where Islam MAY be mocked? Please answer the specific question and in general

Other
12 Aug

ANSWER: Assisting on kufr is to drive someone to a temple to worship their false gods or to buy them their haram scriptures to read from

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QUESTION: Is washing the hands thrice and rinsing the nose thrice after waking up mandatory or recommended?

Other
11 Aug

ANSWER: It’s highly recommended 

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QUESTION: I want to know that is the name Anaiza not good for girls because sheikh of my local area say that since it starts with An it is not good or something like that, so is not good name?

Other
10 Jul

ANSWER: What he has said is totally baseless and fabricated. The name itself has no meaning in Arabic and it is not an Islamic name 

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QUESTION: I believe that Sharia is the best form of legislation, but is it considered kufr (disbelief) to appreciate or benefit from democratic laws—such as receiving a tax refund or enjoying laws that provide more personal freedom? Would this take me out of Islam?

Other
06 Jul

ANSWER: Enjoying tax refund is not kufr nor sinful as it is getting back what is yours initially and was taken from you by force unjustly.

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QUESTION: Is this incident true that, Prophet Muhammad SAW once went home late at night and slept in front of his house as he didn’t want to awake Aisha RA. However, he didn’t realise that Aisha RA was also sleeping behind the door waiting for him.

Other
28 Jun

ANSWER: This is not authentic and it is baseless.

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QUESTION: In marriage functions many guests give gift in the form of cash in an enclosed envelope,so who has the actual authority of dat cash?I mean the parents of the bride/groom or the bride/groom itself.

Fiqh of Marriage, Other
27 Jun

ANSWER: This depends on the person who gave that envelope.  Sometimes it is written on it and other times it is given to the father of the bride to help him and sometimes it is given to the father of the groom to help him with the expenses of the wedding.

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QUESTION: There is a custom in my house that on Eid, whenever our elders gift us Eid money, they ask us to say اَلسَلامُ عَلَيْكُم to them. Is this an innovation?

Innovations, Other
24 Jun

ANSWER: Yes, this is an innovation 

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QUESTION: During my umrah trip last year,I unintentionally picked up lost money from the path I was walking in makki haram and immediately gave it to a worker nearby without announcing. I was ignorant of the ruling back then. Is there any expiation for this?

Other
22 Jun

ANSWER: No. This is something you will be held accountable for on the Day of Judgment.

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QUESTION: I have heard from somewhere that we humans are very selfish that we pray even for our own benefits and from then when i do good deeds i got thoughts like I’m doing this because of my akhirah not for allah and it demotivates me very much and now I’m thinking is it this correct niyah that we do good deeds for our akhirat not for allah?

Other, Paradise and Hell
18 Jun

ANSWER: We all do good deeds for our hereafter while having the intention to please Allah! Satan is messing up with your head with the aim for you to leave any good deeds you are doing.

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QUESTION: There is a energy drink named monster. There is a controversy in Internet that this drink logo has hidden 666 number which in Internet it say is a devil sign. Is it permissable to drink this energy drink if the ingredients is halal?

Halal/Haram Matters, Other
13 Jun

ANSWER: No problem in drinking it if its ingredients are halal! Name doesn’t make anything halal or haram

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