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  • Married his wife without the consent of her guardian

    assalamalaikum, my elder brother recently got married and lving with her wife now.before getting married,they were always meeting up at different places secretly.So the girls parents came to know this boy (my bro).so they decided to marry her to another boy as soon as possible.So she came to her house and got married without her parents permission.But.. More

  • Problems with future pregnancies

    Dear brother in Islam, Assalam-alikum, I am a revert to Islam 7yrs back, I have to take some important decision in life.During my second pregnancy I had severe varicosity problems, I was insisted by my Gynaecologist that time to undergo Tubal ligation (Modified palmer’s method). she said next pregnancy will cause more varicosity and risk.. More

  • Wearing clothes on which the word 'Islam' or 'Muslim' is written

    Assalamu Alaikum, I was looking at the islamqa.com fatwa website and the scholar there denounced somebody selling t-shirts with 'Allah' written on it. But if you have the word 'Muslim' or 'Islam' in English on a T-Shirt, do you know if it is permissible to wear that? The scholar on islamqa.com talked about putting the shirts in dirty laundry and using.. More

  • Has difficulty raising his stepchildren as Muslims

    In the Name of Allah Dear Brother I am a Muslim doctor and have been living in the west for the last 12 years. I got married from a British woman who has already a son and a daughter. They are aged 12 & 14 years now. I was then blessed from Allah with 2 boys Omar & Yousef aged 5 & 2 years. My wife has converted to Islam and I have.. More

  • Sleeping, talking and eating after performing Istikhaarah prayer

    Assalamalikum, Could you please tell me the correct way of Isthikara prayer .I have been told that one should do this as the last thing before sleeping and not talk or eat after isthikhara prayers and sleep facing the Kabaa.Thanks.. More

  • Increasing the installments of a house in return for delay in payments

    Assalam Alikom, I have asked about how a contract should be set up if someone wants to buy a house in the West from a financial institution. You said if the bank bought the house first, then sold it back to me with a mark-up it is halal. My question is: do the installements have to be equal throughout the length of the sales contract? You see, financial.. More

  • Buying through a credit financing company

    Aslamu Alykum wa rahmato allah,my family owns a furniture store in america and recently we made a contract with a credit company that will allow our customers to buy from us and not pay anything for the first 3 months; after that they would recieve bills in the mail and they would begin making payments which offcourse has an interest rate which gets.. More

  • Does fasting become void by having a small cut?

    Will my fast be void if I have a small cut while shaving in the morning?.. More

  • Performing supererogatory prayers during the forbidden times

    Please refer to your fatwa number 91759. I married for the second time and have a stepson. My wife and my stepson both say their prayers and recite the Quran BUT I feel they do not perform the correct way and despite my repeated requests , they do not listen. Example, you should not say your prayers during sunrise or sunset, you should not pray between.. More

  • Bride wearing red dress

    ASALAMOALIKUM, I heard from one of my friend that it is forbidden in ISLAM for a bride to wear RED color dress.i didnt get this answer from anywhere uptil now.Please kindly answer me clearly in Hanfi & Shafi school of thoughts as well... More

  • Has doubts about purity

    pls reply these ques since i having these doubts since 2 yrs and have a lot of time with these and my studies have been greatly affected.as salm u alaikum, thanks a lot for replying to my qs. i need these qs to be ans.1.while washing hands in the toilet when one doubts that they have touched some impurity,if the splashes of water fall here and there.. More

  • Selling products on which there are indecent pictures of women

    Assalaamu'alaikum, I would like to open a shop selling health and beauty products. Unfortunately most of these products have pictures of women in very revealing clothes posing in very provcative manner. The posters to advertise them are more terrible. So I can sell products that have pictures of women not covering their awrah? I can put these products.. More

  • Rules of making currencies

    dear scholars, assalam o elaikum, please tell islamic rules for making currency, both paper and metallic. whether govt has monopoly for making currency or people can do this also like other islamic actions.------jazak Allah. .. More

  • Fasting 'Arafah day depends on sighting the month’s moon in each country

    Thank you for question No. 2104268. You say 'Arafah fast is not linked to a place but time. Could you kindly explain? Since Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said fast on the day of 'Arafah, shouldn't it be both time linked and place linked? How can you separate both? As Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).. More

  • Hadeeth about breastfeeding during pregnancy

    I heard that there are many Hadeeth saying breast feeding during pregnancy is not allowed. I managed to find only this: Partial Sunan Abu Dawood, Book 28, Number 3872: Narrated Asma, daughter of Yazid Ibn as-Sakan: I heard the Apostle of Allaah (peace be upon him) as saying: 'Do not kill your children secretly, for the milk, with which a child is suckled.. More