Shirk and its different forms

QUESTION: My mother’s friend claims she can tell future and see unseen with cards and candles. She’s a lier right?

Jinn, Witchcraft, Black Magic and the Evil Eye, Shirk and its different forms

14 May

ANSWER: She’s a soothsayer and you must not go to her. Listening to her for fun renders your prayer invalid for 40 days. Believing anything she says takes you out of the fold of Islam

QUESTION: Can we recite or listen a poem praises the prophet saw called Qaseeda Burdah

Sects, Shirk and its different forms, Supplications

12 May

ANSWER: No, It is not permissible as it includes shirk and exaggeration in praising the Prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam. https://islamqa.info/en/answers/115502/qaseedat-al-burdah-by-al-busayri-and-an-explanation-of-what-it-contains-of-kufr-and-heresy

QUESTION: Shaikh is it shirk/kufr to write things that contain shirk or kufr (like evolution, darwinism, and things against islamic morals etc) in the exam (without the disclaimer of I am not believing it) in order to get first position (not to pass but to get first position)?

Halal/Haram Matters, Shirk and its different forms

29 Apr

ANSWER: This is not shirk or kufr. No problem in this due to necessity even without the disclaimer as long as you resent it and disbelieve in it

QUESTION: I have rented my shop to a Shia tailor. He has hung items containing numbers, writings, and a lion holding a sword, which appear like talismans or magic symbols believed to bring good fortune. I asked him to remove them, but he refused. If these items involve shirk or magic, am I sinful—or even guilty of kufr—for continuing to rent the shop to him after advising him?

Halal/Haram Matters, Shirk and its different forms

15 Apr

ANSWER: If you did not know that before renting him the shop, there is no sin on you but you must not renew the contract after it ends if he doesn’t remove things related to magic or kufr if you are certain of it.

QUESTION: Venerating something, seeking nearness to it and hanging something on it for blessing, are all acts of major shirk, right?

Shirk and its different forms

25 Jan

ANSWER: Generally speaking, yes, depending on the intention

QUESTION: There is a Barelvi masjid near my home where, on every 11th of the month, they use loudspeakers to recite words that seem like shirk. The imam also recites these words with them, they deny believing in them. These recitations are from their well-known book Awrad-e-Fatah. Another masjid is about 2 km away, so I go there but not regularly, and sometimes I pray at home. What should I do

Prayer, Rulings on mosques, Shirk and its different forms

18 Nov

ANSWER: You must not pray in a Barelvi masjid. Find a masjid that follows the Quran and Sunnah. If there is no masjid in your vicinity, pray home.

QUESTION: Sheikh, one day I heard my mother telling to my teacher that ‘First Allah, then you’. Did my mother commit shirk by saying such thing?

Halal/Haram Matters, Shirk and its different forms

20 Oct

ANSWER: This is a very bad statement and inappropriate but there is no shirk in it in sha Allah

QUESTION: Sheikh, is it from Islam or a form of sadaqah to take meat of chicken and swirl it around a person 3 times and throw it out so “balayen” i think evil things? will leave that person?

Shirk and its different forms, Superstitions

19 Oct

ANSWER: This is absolutely prohibited and a form of shirk!

QUESTION: I know that reading regarding horoscopes is haram , so sometimes you get posts like what does your birth month say about you or what kind of a person you are according to your birth month. Is reading stuff like this also haram?

Shirk and its different forms

15 Sep

ANSWER: This is absolutely haram! Believing it takes a person out of the fold of Islam. Reading or watching it without believing makes the prayers of 40 days void.

QUESTION: Is giving money to a mazar shirk if it’s done to please Allah? What about just donation? Is just giving money regardless of any type of reason makes it kufur?

Shirk and its different forms

31 Jul

ANSWER: Giving money to a dargah or a place where shirk is committed is an act of shirk

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