Shirk and its different forms

When someone is sick my mother takes a knife and rolls it in a headscarf then she moves over the sick person’s body and say some things, than she rolls the had scarf open and she measures the length and roll it up again and repeats the same thing 3 times or more.

28 Jun

ANSWER: This is an innovation that is either minor shirk or major shirk, depending on her intention. Make ruqyah instead.

My grandma has a suspicion that my someone has done the evil eye on my child. So forth she grabs an egg, prays on it and circle it around the child and cracks it outside or in the sink. Is this an authentic way to remove superstition or is it just innovative.

Shirk and its different forms, Supplications

25 Jun

ANSWER: This is absolutely prohibited and can mount to shirk! You must not allow her to do this. PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN If you say this Duaa in the morning and evening, this would would protect you and your children with the grace if Allah Allahumma inni as’alukal- afiyata fid-dunia wal-akhirati.Allahumma inni as’alukal-‘afwa wal afiyata fi […]

In pakistan a mosque near my house they say the following before every adhan: Assalatu wassalamu alaika ya Rasool Allah wa’ala aalika wa ashabika ya habib Allah. Assalatu wassalamu alaika ya Nabi Allah wa’ala aalika wa as sahabika ya Noor Allah Is this kufr?

Sects, Shirk and its different forms

25 Jun

ANSWER: This is most probably a barelvi masjid. It’s not permissible to pray there.

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?

Shirk and its different forms

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 […]

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