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  • They throw away food from neighbors for fear of poison

    Salaam Alaikum, In our home country (India) whenever food is sent by neighbour, our women usually throw their food as customary saying that it may contain poison to harm us as many other people were suffered in the locality by foods given by neighbors? So is this practice Halal? Jazaak ALLAHu Khair. .. More

  • Her family wants her to stop listening to scholars

    Salam, My family made me feel that I should stop watching videos and reading fatwas from people who has knowledge because they do not like it when I tell them something that I learn of. Also, they question that why is that people who has knowledge they don't tell the Muslim leaders to stop doing wrong things that they see? Please help me. May Allah.. More

  • What it means to be 'stern' with the disbelievers

    Assalamu Alaykum.Why does Allah SWT tell us to be stern against the disbelievers in 48:29 and 5:54?Jazakallah Khayr .. More

  • How to deal with an abusive, sinful mother

    this is a story of my mom...once she saw she dint like me..she hated me..she never wnted ppl know dat am her daughter..coz she wnted to look young..i saw my mom wen i was 16 yrs old...my mom used to call my dad and everyone in the family and speak bad abt me and she called me a prostitute wen i do a mistake.wat i knw if i do a mistake my mom shuld correct.. More

  • How to respond to those who mock Islam

    asalamualikum my question is that at work i sometime have to serve a man who is anti islam. when he found out my name is Mohammed he made a comment about me getting virgins in heaven. then when i served him another time he said have you started drinking. i replied to him with a name like Mohammed i would never drink. i think i said it to him to make.. More

  • Competition in learning is not a sin

    I have read a hadith which indicates that if someone gains knowledge in order to compete with someone than it is a sin. If I study so that, I can be a top student by beating the top students is this sin?... All the top students think like this. Does Islam forbids competition in studies?... I am confused... The hadith is quoted below: The Messenger of.. More

  • Her husband is sluggish and wasting his time

    Assalamu alaykum,I hope you can help me with an issue I have regarding my husband; We married a year and a half ago (Apr 2012) but we do not live together yet as was agreed by both of us; I still live with my parents. He lives very close to me (5 min drive) and I regularly visit his home to keep him company and fulfil duties that a wife should fulfil.. More

  • Harms of excessive mixing with people

    Salaamu Alaykum warahmatullah. I wanted ask regarding friends and those that don't benefit with time who make one waste time till late at night... Is there any harm in keeping a distance but if they are to contact one keeps generally good ties with them? Is this allowed? Also regarding another question if a person has many people he knows but no longer.. More

  • Congregational Thikr after prayer is an innovation

    With regards to dhikr, I understand that it should not be done in congregation after the obligatory prayers. What should I do, though, if this happens in the mosque I am praying at? Stand up and leave or join in? How about a mother reading the morning adhkaar after the fajr prayer at home together with her children? JazakAllah khair .. More

  • When saying 'if only' is permissible

    There is a hadith in sahih Muslim that if some calamity befalls on you don’t say "if I had done such and such .... Then this would not happen as your ifs will open the gate for shaytan ". But in sahih bukhari there is complete chapter of wishes of HOLY PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH) in which PROPHET (PBUH) at various occasions said if I had.....Then i would”... More

  • Hiding knowledge out of fear

    Is it allowed for a talib ul ilm or a scholar who has some islamic information or knowledge to hide it in fear of being arrested or being watched by authorities? .. More

  • Hard to pray in home of Christian sister

    Sallam... I am a musilm boy who always pray five times always. When i came to Europe and i live with my sister which is a christian and i have no place to go. Now i cant perform my prayers anymore and sometime pray only Asri in a day because she married to a pastor and i cant pray in there home. And also is more difficult for me to move around. Now.. More

  • The reward for youth guarding chastity

    How does the reward for guarding chastity for someone a man who cannot get married and is in his youth compare with the reward for deeds such as reading Quran and doing zikr and walking to Masjid and praying in the Masjid, and praying in the night, and giving charity (is it much greater or lesser)? Guarding chastity is much more difficult than those.. More

  • The rights of a foster family

    Aselamu Aleykum I am from Ethiopia My age is in 20s and am working in one of the gov't office.Before forwarding my question I put my brief history. I lost my family at early age.then being with my sister who had converted to ISLAM and has a husband I had completed grade 8.Then I moved to my friend's family who are so kind. As My family and relatives.. More

  • He wants to buy a car for his wife but his father refuses

    If a man wishes to buy a second car for his wife to use, with his own money, and his father tells him not to, is it right to go ahead and still buy the car, which he sees as a requirement for her movements, even though he knows that this would displease his father? .. More