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  • Overhearing answer while taking admission exam

    Is it permissible for me to continue my studies? Assalaamu alaykum. In my medical admission test, I gave one MCQ (multiple choice question) question's answer by hearing it from others. I did not ask anyone to tell me the answer. What happened is that others were cheating by discussing the answer, and I heard the answer intentionally. I gave all the.. More

  • Seeking pardon of people one lied to or cheated

    Assalaamu alaykum. I am wondering about this hadith: “Whoever has wronged his brother with regard to his blood, his wealth or his honour, let him come and set matters straight before there comes a Day on which there will be no dirhams and no dinars, only good deeds and bad deeds, and if he has good deeds (they will be taken and given to the one.. More

  • Pride in belonging to Islam is required

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuh, Shaykhs. Can we Muslims be arrogant given that we are better than the disbelievers, who are the worst of creation while we are the best? Is this type of pride allowed? .. More

  • Repentance from committing slander

    Assalaamu alaykum. Is the following statement considered slander, bad thought, or accusing another in a scenario in which the reality is opposite to the statement: “I think he said something (and thereafter this issue was raised and became a problem, because it happened after we had somewhat of a confrontation)” - i.e. the reality is that the person.. More

  • Traveling to seek knowledge without parents' permission

    Assalaamu alaykum, Scholars. I want to know the meaning of ''if the parents are in need of you" or "if they would face hardship" in regard to travelling for seeking knowlege. We live in Tarragona, Spain. My father is around 60 years old, and my mother is younger than him, perhaps 55 or 56. They both work and both earn money: my father is a university.. More

  • Expiation for breaking many oaths

    Dear Shaikh, I have broken many oaths, but I have repented now. My plan is to give expiation through money each day. For example, I will give 2 dollars for to a poor person each day for 10 days for one oath, and then another 10 days for another oath. My questions are: 1. Is it permissible to do this in this way? 2. What if I miss a day or two? Do.. More

  • Parents forbid him from wearing Ghutrah

    Assalaamu alaykum, Scholars. I recently asked you about my parents forbidding me to wear a scarf over my head, and you sent me a fatwa saying that obeying the parents is not obligatoryin one's clothing,but I asked you this question since I thought that perhaps the rulling may change since I am wearing a Saudi scarf in a country were that is not common.. More

  • Supplicating against unjust parent and sibling

    Assalaamu alaykum. My mother and little sister betrayed mewith her housband. They took money that I gave them as a trust, and now they are also looking to share the house which I bought in the name of my mother even though they did not put any cent towards it. I feel betrayed by my mother and little sister and cannot do anything. I worked my whole life.. More

  • How to nourish the mind

    Assalaamu alaykum. I have been blessed with much guidance from Allah, The Exalted, Maa Shaa Allah. I have a question regarding the brain, the main tool for our rationality, with the mercy of Allah, The Exalted. I would like to know how to purify the brain; for example, for purifying the body, we perform Ghusl (ritual bath); for the heart, we ask for.. More

  • Obeying unjust mother

    Assalaamu alaykum. I have a question about a problem. I currentlylive in Europe, and my mother and sister live in Africa. I have bought a house, and I let my sister live in there with her husband without paying rent. My mother lives in another house, not with them. My problem is that my sister has betrayed me. I trusted her with my money, and she has.. More

  • Questions about returning Salaam

    I have some brief questions about the Salaam greeting: 1- If someone visits my home and says the Salaam but I do not want to accept him (for some reason), can I return the Salaam quietly? 2- If someone says the Salaam and he is far away (like by using sound system or mic) and no one answers him while even if I answer him, he will not hear it,.. More

  • Husband's permission to wife to visit her parents

    Assalaamu alaykum. My question is the following: my wife and I married around four years ago. We live abroad, and her parents live in another country. She keeps going to see her parents every year for two months despite me telling her not to go for that long and to go every year but for one month only. She does not listen to me and says that it is her.. More

  • Reading Aayat Al-Kursi before sleeping in daytime

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu. Can I read Ayat Al-Kursi before sleeping in the daytime? .. More

  • Relating bad dream to others

    Salam. My friend, who is a few years older than me, and I planned yesterday that we should see each other today at 8AM for me to help her on her English. Last night, my grandma felt uneasy about me leaving. Then this morning, around 7:30 AM, my aunt approached me and told me that my grandpa who passed away in 2013 came into her dream and asked me, “Where.. More

  • Virtue of working to provide for self and family

    Can you please quote and explain the hadith about a young man who was very active in his business and who was criticized by a Companion for not striving in the cause of Allah. Prophet Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam,defended him by saying that there could be three reasons why he was active in his work: 1. To be self sufficient, which makes.. More