Shirk and its different forms

I read from Q&A(your website) it is just a prediction.I want specific answer is it shirk, as it is troubling me from days. The weather station predicts rain or snow. If the Muslim person believes them, is the person doing shirk?

19 Jun

ANSWER: No; this is not shirk. weather forecast uses calculations and pictures from the satellite to determine what the weather could be like and this is not the same as fortune telling. Praise be to Allaah.Forecasting the weather does not come under the heading of astrology or claiming to have knowledge of the unseen, rather it is based on […]

Is swearing other than name of Allah puts a person out of fold of islam?

Shirk and its different forms

18 Jun

ANSWER: Swearing by other than Allah is shirk that can be minor and it can also be major depending on one’s intention. Praise be to Allaah. Firstly: It is haraam to swear by anything other than Allaah, whether that be one’s father or leader, or on one’s honour or status, etc, because it is proven […]

Is only visiting graves of religious scholars is a sin that puts person beyond pale of islam?means the persons prays and worships only to Allah but he visits such places

Shirk and its different forms

18 Jun

ANSWER: Visiting such places usually is done by ignorant people seeking blessings and making Duaa and may be worse than that. This can easily mount to shirk.

Please can piety of a Muslim leader make Him see the unseen ie to tell the occurrence of something in the future,just like subsayers do? In the name that Allah revealed it to him?

Shirk and its different forms

16 Jun

ANSWER: This is absolutely baseless and a lie. Anyone claiming that is a kafir and an apostate as no one knows the future and the unseen except Allah.

Pls advise & Is it permissible to give zakaat to a person who does bidah like going to dargah.

Shirk and its different forms, Zakat

30 May

ANSWER: Giving it to someone who does shirk is not accepted.

I have seen many scholars, they said putting the name of Muhammad next to Allah is not permissible. In Bangladesh, we have seen it regularly that they put these name together and even they put the picture of the Kaaba and Prophets Grave in the Musolla (Mehrab). I saw a picture of the door of Kaaba where it also shown there is Allah and Muhammad together. Please tell me the truth.

Shirk and its different forms

29 May

ANSWER: This is prohibited and not permissible. The Prophet salla Allahu Alaihi wa Sallam was angered when a man said: what ever you and Allah will! He said: have you made me equal to Allah.

THE intention is that he is saying ya muhhamad out of love & to remind himself of prophet SAW (his intention is not to call & ask help from the prophet SAW) is this minor or major sin?

Shirk and its different forms

26 May

ANSWER: When one calls the Prophet salla Allahu alaihi sa sallam, If he is calling him to seek his help, this is major shirk. But if he is calling him as a form of grief, this is permissible as when Fatima may Allah be pleased with her grieved over her father by saying O my […]

My question is in my country a lot of people are using the symbol of the prophet sandal ( na’layn ) like attaching it on bracelets making it as pins and etc, saying that it makes them remember the prophet of Allah and will gives barakah what is the ruling of this?

Shirk and its different forms

14 Apr

ANSWER: This is an innovation and absolutely not permissible and mounts to shirk.

Sheikh, what to think of a man who pretends to do istikhara for others, he told my mom to buy a car that would take all the witchcraft others do on her.My brother went to jail and he gave him something to eat saying that he would answer call of nature outside of the prison for that thing he ate.He got out of jail as the man had said.

Shirk and its different forms

11 Apr

ANSWER: First of all, istikhara cannot be done for others and anyone claiming to know the unseen is either a liar or a soothsayer. You must advise your mother to stop going to such people as believing in those who claim to know the unseen future takes a person out of the folds of Islam.

My question is that if a Muslim plays a video that has Shirk in it, then does he loose his Imaan? The Muslim hates the Shirk and Kufr in his heart tremendously in the scenario but he plays the video games. In one scene, he is with the Hindus in the temple where he has to engage in shirk, otherwise he cannot proceed. He only plays the game for the shooting and adventure.

Shirk and its different forms, Sports, Entertainment and Music

10 Apr

ANSWER: This is a major sin. If he believes in it, it takes him out of the fold of islam.

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