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  • 'Iddah starts directly when the husband utters divorce

    I live in USA..and My husband lives in Pakistan. Actually i went to Pakistan last year in August 2013 and took a Divorce from Him. and now we really need to do patch up again.. He signed the Divorce paper on 4th October 2013. and On my Divorce paper the Date is mentioned of 25th September 2013.. and the Union Council they Registered my Divorce paper.. More

  • Using child support as bargaining tool for visitation rights

    Assalam Aleikum. I divorced my first wife 6 years ago. We had one daughter with my ex-wife. I remarried since and have had 2 daughters. My daughter is 9 years old and living with my ex-wife (her mum). I have been paying child support all this time until 4 months ago when I moved abroad. The reason I stopped to pay child support (still paying her private.. More

  • Wife may ask for divorce if her husband is an adulterer

    Assalamo alikum; I have 2 questions. I shall appreciate if you please answer. 1) Will wife be punished if her husband does not forgive her after accusing her of neglecting him, being disrespectful to him, not responding to each and every call for intercourse, taking care of the wife’s parents more than him etc. 2) Will this wife be punished if she.. More

  • Stepfather is a Mahram for wife's illegitimate daughter

    Assalamu alaykum warahmatullah wabarakatuh. I have read a lot of fatwa and from shariah law about illegitimate child but none of them can relate to my situation. I hope you can help enlighten me. I was a christian when i got pregnant from my boyfriend and we never got married. I am taking care of my daughter and on legal paper she has no father. Her.. More

  • A husband may not disown a child except by Li'aan

    I am a married woman, who came home to FL to see her parents. I told my husband I am pregnant but he is accusing me of lying and saying that it is not his child. Islamicaly is my husband allowed to make such false accussations on me and accuse me and family of plotting against him? I have no idea what is wrong with him but I came to find out he has.. More

  • She is a new Muslim but got married to an innovator

    Salamalakum, Im a convert and Sunni and I married a Shia. I contracted herpes after the birth of our son when I finished the postnatal bleeding. The dr told me that I got the herpes virus from the person I had sex with which was my husband. My husband denies it although I have caught him texting, talking and downloading porn to his phone. Can I ask.. More

  • How to deal with a strong-willed child?

    Assalamualaikum… Does 'strong-willed children' exist in Islam? What is the best way to handle a strong-willed child...Sometimes my child simply says 'no' whenever we asked her to do something… She likes to fight and purposely pick on her siblings… When I asked why she said 'because I feel like to'…please help me… .. More

  • Secretly marrying Christian workmate for fear of temptation

    Asalam-o-Alieykom I work in a good job and make good money to support my family i'm the boss and until recently i had a male assistant but now i have a female we have to spent long hours together in a room just us and we have to travel in a car for long distances to go to meetings she is single christian who doesn't date or drink we talk about work.. More

  • She does not follow any religion and received a marriage proposal from a Muslim man

    Hello,I am 47 y/o female who is seeing muslim man. When I first met him I never thought our friendship would develop into more. I have no children and have never been married. He says he is a single father I have never met his children or been to his home. I do not practice a specific religion but open to learn Islam. I do not not want to be led astray.. More

  • Child's lineage cannot be traded for Khul'

    Assalamu alaykom. I am a revert to Islam, i was living in an Islamic country and was married by orfi i became pregnant on or a couple of days after the wedding night we were married 1 month before i asked for divorce because i was badly beaten many times by my husband and i could not take this treatment, he and his family agreed to the divorce if i.. More

  • Wife may not work without husband's permission

    If wife works and husband does not want her to work but the wife insists on working then is it permissible to deposit the wife's check into a joint account (husband and wife) and spend it on household expenses, while letting her know that this money will be used for bills, mortgage, and grocery? Even if the wife stays home she does not perform her duties.. More

  • She receives financial aid from a non-Mahram man who has an affair with her

    I am a married woman and I am having an affair with a man that does not go beyond phone calls. This man offers me financial aid without even seeing me. Is that money considered ill-gotten gains? .. More

  • Traces of sexual intercourse should be removed according to social manners

    I am a newly-married wife. I got married less than a month ago. We have not settled in our own house yet, and I am staying with my sister and her husband, who is my maternal cousin, for now. My husband comes over for some days a week, and he insists on having sexual intercourse with me in my sister’s house, leaving the traces of the intercourse on.. More

  • Scholars’ opinions on a woman staying in seclusion with more than one man and vice versa

    Assalaamu Alaykum,What is the ruling on a group of girls and young men spending time together in the campus cafeteria as mere friends and colleagues? They talk about serious issues such as religious and political topics. If these young men are religious and the girls adhere to Hijaab, what is the ruling on such a gathering, especially given that such.. More

  • Husband’s right to know the reason behind his son’s illness

    Assalaamu Alaykum, I am a married man and have a ten-month-old child. Does my wife have the right to lie to me about the reason behind my son’s illness, hiding the real reasons for his sickness under the pretext that we have problems and that she thinks that I would accuse her of negligence? The child suffered from intestinal obstruction and had.. More