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  • Ruling on pictures

    My question is about making pictures. I work for an INGO here in Pakistan. We produce reports to our donors and there we have to place pictures as that's the requirement by the donors. We do have to have some pictures of beneficiaries to be displayed at the office walls. What do you say about those pictures? Is it against Islam teachings making.. More

  • Joined a Website For Muslims Who Want To Marry

    I am a divorced woman in her middle fifties. I would like to remarry. I have joined a website where Muslims meet each for the purpose of getting married. Is it Haram to chat with a man on-line? Is it proper if I meet him to see each other and discuss future marriage? What is the correct way of doing things? Do you think after chatting with him for a.. More

  • TV programs using documentaries with music in the background

    I am the chairman of a non-profit trust that produces a weekly TV program on a community TV station in Auckland, New Zealand; We use documentaries of the known personality, Harun yahya, and other material. The documentaries have some music in the background. Now the question is can we continue using such programs for spreading the religion Islam in.. More

  • Difference between Fardh, Wajib and Sunnah

    What is the difference between Wajib and Fardh? Is the Sunnah after Maghrib Wajib, or Fardh, or Sunnah? What is the difference among these three?.. More

  • Viewing Islamic CD's that have background music

    There are manyIslamic CD is available. One of them is of the famous movie-The Message-.Can Muslims watch it? There are also excellent Islamic documentaries of very high standard by Harun Yahya. They can be downloaded from www.harunyahya.com. The problem with this CD is there is background music. We can learn a lot about Islam from these CDs.. More

  • Stem cell research in Islam

    What is the Islamic view on Stem Cell research?.. More

  • Plants, animals and their after life

    According to Hadith we cannot draw pictures of living beings. But today we know that plants have also life and latest studies say that plants can also feel pain. The Hadith which forbids pictures mentions living beings with souls. Is that why we are allowed to draw sceneries as plants do not have souls though they have life? We cannot draw animals.. More

  • Is spreading Islam through internet permissible?

    A brother associated with the Tablighi Jamath has presented a question to me. He says that:" The spreading of Deen (religion) through internet is not the right way and this would benefit none. The way of Anbiya (prophets) and Muhammad (SAW) and the Sahabah (RA) was door-to-door, not web-to-web. (I seek refuge in Allah). Give me the proof from Hadith.. More

  • Addicted to online gaming

    I have a problem where I'm addicted to online gaming. I'm in a gaming clan, most of members are non-Muslims, where we play every week night and week ends. We play a game called Counter-Strike. Are these types of game allowed, and is being in this clan allowed? What can one do in his spare time that is ok to do in Islam?.. More

  • Taking pictures of wedding ceremony

    During our wedding my husband and I took pictures to send to his mother back home in Yemen. Is it Haram that we took pictures, and the pictures were only for his mother, no one else?.. More

  • Beware of Satanic whispers

    As I have asked this question earlier that the Shaitan comes between me and my prayers and makes me remember such things that are highly offending to Allah. When I say, Allah is the greatest of all!!! Or Allah will help us!!! Or anything like that, the Shaitan makes to thinnk about creatures.Do you have any Dua's that I may say to stop them? Please.. More

  • Ruling on Dancing

    Is dancing approved, for example, during a wedding so as to enjoy oneself? .. More

  • Dancing to music

    I would like to know the punishment in the grave (hereafter) for dancingto music... More

  • Giving his father a TV may cause problems

    I understand that my father will be happy if I buy a colortv for him as the existing one is out-of-order. Though he did not ask me directly to buy this for him, my understanding is that he will be very happy if I would give him a newtv .My father spendsmuch of his time watchingtv to pass his loneliness. But I don't want to give him such a thing.. More

  • Angels avoid homes with picture of living creatures

    Angels do not enter a house where there are images of people or any other living creatures. Is this ruling applicable only for pictures that are exposed or does this also imply to pictures that are not kept open, i.e. for pictures in our school books (in their closed state)?.. More