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  • Lashing out at difficult old mother

    Assalaamu alaykom. My mother lives with me as I am an only child. She suffers from alzheimer and OCD and has mobility and continence issues. I am the breadwinner of the home and my work is exhausting. I have no problems being the primary caregiver at all, but she makes me very, very angry many days as she is a control freak and is very stubborn. She.. More

  • Stark injustice towards wife

    My ex-husband divorced me and would not let me have my kids. Before he divorced me, he forced me out of the home and drugged me, trying to make me fornicate, and he lied and said that I was adulterous. What kind of ruling can be given? .. More

  • Loving one's parents is innate nature even if they are disbelievers

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu, Shaykh. Did Prophet Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam,love his parents? And what about Prophet Ibraaheem, may Allaah exalt his mention, did he love his father? If yes, was that love present both before and after their death? And what type of love was that? As to my knowledge, they were disbelievers,.. More

  • Seeking knowledge or getting time-consuming job to please mother

    Assalaamu alaykum Scholar. I am a student of knowledge. What if my mother asks me to work in order to earn a lot of money and live confortable while I do not want to work as those kinds of jobs take almost all of your time? What if I currently have a job that does not require time and for which I get paid very little but also gives me a lot of time.. More

  • How to know whether one is dutiful to his parents

    Assalaamu alaykum, scholars. I am a brother (19 years old) who lives in Spain with his parents. Ever since Allaah guided me, praise be to Him, I have been facing many, many problems with my parents, who are also Muslims but are not that practicing. Nevertheless, they are still Muslims. I have read a lot about being dutiful to one's parents, not a little,.. More

  • Staying with old parents better than traveling to marry abroad

    Assalaamu alaikum. A person previously supplicated to be able to make Hijrah (emigrate to a Muslim land). There is an opportunity to marry abroad, Allaah willing. There are marriage prospects available in her country, but she does not always feel positive after praying Istikhaarah (guidance-seeking prayer). However, her parents are old, and this may.. More

  • Dealing with parents who practice Bid‘ah

    Assalaamu alaykum. I am a Muslim who was born in England and lives in England with Pakistani parents. My family, including my parents, commit Bid‘ah (religious innovations), such as celebrating the birthday of the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam,etc. I tried to tell them that it is Bid‘ah, but they angrily denied it and said that that is.. More

  • Father forbids son to wear jeans at home

    Is it permissible to wear pants and jeans at home? My father does not allow it, while I want to wear them. .. More

  • Maintaining kinship ties with relatives who disobey Allah

    Assalaamu alaykum. Sorry in advance for my lengthy question. My question is: how much of the ties of kinship is one obliged to keep with very close relatives who openly disobey Allaah and His commands, like women exposing their body by wearing very thin clothes, exposing their hair and head in public places, and celebrating many celebrations of the.. More

  • Parents refuse to let son leave mixed school

    I want to leave public school in America to avoid the great amount of Fitnah (temptation, tribulation) and evil there. I am not married yet, and the way in which the women dress is very provocative, and I fear for my religious commitment. There are many other evils, but this is the greatest one that is making me want to leave. However, my parents absolutely.. More

  • Parents dislike son's wife and want him to take another

    Assalaamu alaykum. I had a love affair with a girl and my parents did not like her much because she was poor. Anyway, they agreed and we got married last October. During the wedding, my in-laws did not properly respect my parents. So my parents started to hate them. I kept silent and did not speak much about this. So ever since that time, the parents.. More

  • Shunning disobedient brother

    Assalaamu alaykum. My brother is barely 20 years old. we had an awesome Islamic upbringing from our childhood. Despite that, after returning to our country, where a non-Islamic culture is prevalent, he got caught up, and his major fall was getting involved with girls. After lots of consultation with him, when we thought he had understood us, he just.. More

  • No obedience to parents or in-laws in what displeases Allah

    I live in Saudi Arabia, and my wife lives with my parents. She is Islamic and obedient, but my parents want to force her to talk and mix with all our relatives. She does not like this culture. She complains me about it, and when I interfere, my parents get angry and say that I am disobeying them. They also say that they feel embarrassed in society due.. More

  • Answering question about mother's occupation is not Diyaathah (lack of jealousy for one's womenfolk)

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu. I am studying and have been redoing my year many times over now, and I am studying with a teacher. My question is that when we were studying, he asked me questions using examples about my familly; he wants to know about that; he asked me how many we are, what my mum does, if she has a job or not, and.. More

  • His parents refuse that he leaves mixed school where he fears temptation

    In the Name of Allaah, The Entirely Merciful, The Especially Merciful. Assalaamu alaykum. I am a public high school student who should be graduating the coming semester. However, due to the Fitnah (temptation, tribulation) in public schools and the bad friends that I used to have there, I want to enroll in an online school right now, even before graduating.. More