Q&A/Fatwas

QUESTION: My uncle lives in canada with his one wife and 3 daughters. This year he and his wife came to hajj leaving their adult daughters alone without any gurdian. My question is is it ok for him to left their adult daughters(eligible for marriage) alone in canada without any guardian?

Hajj and Umrah

20 May

ANSWER: No problem in this if they are safe.

QUESTION: In my country, some scholars say that if we do not cut our nails, hair, or pubic hair during the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah, we will receive the same reward as the person who offers the Qurbani. Is this authentic?

Slaughtering

19 May

ANSWER: No, this is a blatant lie and bogus!

QUESTION: Can I do a slaughter (of eid al adha) on the name of the deceased head of family, so that the slaughter will count for the whole family?

Slaughtering

17 May

ANSWER: This is not from the sunnah. The prophet’s uncle Hamzah and his beloved wife Khadeejah and many others died in his lifetime and he had never slaughtered a sacrifice specially for them. If you want, you can slaughter your own sacrifice and include in it all the deceased you want.

QUESTION: If someone prays with minimal wudu, leaves sunnah acts, wears haram clothes, or prays while needing to urinate, scholars may still consider the prayer valid. But if a person persists in these matters in every prayer, are the prayers still valid? Is there any scholarly disagreement on this issue?

Prayer

16 May

ANSWER: The prayer remains valid, though they are loosing a lot of reward that may reach 1/10th of the actual prayer!

QUESTION: It’s been more than 11 yrs since my husband has almost stopped praying except for Jummah and during Ramadan. Have advised him many times. Have asked for a divorce but he doesn’t want to. He lives in my apartment. Is it permissable to kick him out or go to court to divorce him?

Fiqh of Marriage, Prayer

16 May

ANSWER: Yes, you should have done that long time back.

QUESTION: I saw your video about women’s prayer where you said that they Should cover their whole body except their face and hands during prayer. What about the forearms? What if some or all of the area of the arm between the elbow and the wrist is uncovered? Will the prayer be valid?

Prayer, Women clothing

15 May

ANSWER: Of course not! Hand means from fingertips till wrist! Below that is called arms and not hands! The arms MUST be fully covered (till the wrists)!

QUESTION: I live in H**d* anti islam family and my family don’t know I am Muslim, Sometimes I sin and deliberately don’t pray and then repent. Will all of my past good deeds go away? Will all of my deeds invalidated?

Prayer

13 May

ANSWER: It is not permissible for a Muslim to skip a prayer intentionally as this is one of the major sins in Islam. If one persists on skipping prayers, this might take him out of the fold of Islam. However, if a person repents and commits to his prayers on time and avoids sins to […]

QUESTION: Sheikh does Kissing the black stone break your state of ihram because it has oud?

Hajj and Umrah

12 May

ANSWER: No, it does not, unless you are doing this intentionally to get perfume on you.

QUESTION: Sheikh, what’s the ruling on saying ‘Bismillah’ before Athan and Iqamah? Is this bida’h or not?

Innovations, Prayer

10 May

ANSWER: This is not permissible as its an innovation

QUESTION: If the monetary value of (gold) or of (gold+cash) or of (gold+silver+cash) passes the silver nisab but not the gold nisab then do we pay zakah? Or is the silver nisab limited to only if (silver) or (silver+cash) passes it?

Zakat

08 May

ANSWER: If the cash + silver reaches the value of 595 grams of silver, or the cash alone, you must give zakat on it. Similarly, if the cash + gold reach the value of 85 grams of pure gold, there is zakat on it.

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