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Questions about Gheebah
Assalaamu alaykum, my question is with regards gheebah(backbiting):
A. If I narrate a story for sympathy or with sorrow, but not to belittle, is this considered gheebah ifit may shed bad light on someone?
B. Alternatively, if I narrate the same story, but without mentioning names, is this gheebah? Ideally, we would not need to ask, but due to.. More
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Raising the voice when supplicating is disliked
Assalaamu alaykum. I sometimes speak in a very angry voice. I sometimes like to do so as it clears my mind. When I supplicate, I do so as well sometimes. I am not angry with Allaah; sometimes I am just angry about some stuff, if you speak with an angry voice to Allaah but are not angry with Allaah or are not menacing to show disrespect. Is that kufr.. More
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Feeling guilty for living away from parents for long
Assalaamu alaykum, dear Scholar. We migrated abroad almost ten years ago. I now feel like I have missed my parents. They live in my home country. My heart is criticizing me and telling me that I abandoned them. They once visited us here, but I feel like that is not enough. I wanted to do so much for them but I cannot. I have three children. We have.. More
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He fears that work and marriage might weaken his faith
I work 12 hours a day in the West, in a market. Before this, I did not work because I am practising. Ever since I started working on this job, I feel that my faith decreases. Now I am considering to quit, but my mum wants me to work. I am also planing to get married. I feel like the combination of marriage and work might distract me even more from the.. More
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Tampering with electricity meter to pay less for electricity
Back in my village, I turned the electric meter reading slow by paying some money to the electric meter reader so that my electric bill would go down every month. It went on for sometime and then recently when I went on leave Allaah showed me the way, and I also heard that there could be repercussions from the electric department so now I have put the.. More
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Taking multiple vows with the intention to repeat the expiation
Assalaamu alaykum. I took three vows for a single matter. My intention at the time of taking the vows was that they were three vows so that if I broke them I would have to offer the expiation three times. Do I have to offer three expiations or just one?
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Husband may not prevent wife from contacting her sister
I have been married for 30 years now and have two sons. We live abroad and my two brothers also live in the same country as us. Sadly, the relationship between my husband and my family was never the best. He always had the feeling that they never accepted him, and during all these years there were misunderstandings from both sides, and he broke off.. More
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Receiving prize as result of lying about one's achievements
Assalaamu alaykum. This is an urgent inquiry, I need the answer within 24 hours as the graduating ceremony is on Thursday! Once, I took part in a science fair, but a fellow student lied about an aspect of one of our projects, saying a thing that we did not do to one of the visitors, he did this to impress the visitor and to get votes. The certificates.. More
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Having daughters only is not a cause for grief at all
Assalaamu alaykum. Praise be to Allaah, my husband and I have three daughters. They are healthy and a blessing from Allaah. Praise be to Allaah, we are a happy family with a lot of love for Allaah and for each other. My husband and I spend time and effort into our daughters' Islamic education, and we work hard to raise them to become strong and pious.. More
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How to treat addiction to pornography
Assalaamu alaykum. Please, I have a friend who 23 years old. He has been afflicted with watching pornography. He has been turning to Allaah with cries, but afterwards, he went back each time. Because of this, he thought that the only way out is to get married although he is in school and does not have enough income. Unfortunately, the family said that.. More
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Receiving state benefits for disability does not withhold the reward in the Hereafter
Dear Scholar, this question is from my friend who is handicapped, he has only two fingers in his left arm. He is fully healthy except for what I mentioned, that he has only two finger in his left arm. In our country, the government gives some special benefits to the handicapped/disabled people. For example, the government preserves some seats for the.. More
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Praying slowly to teach people discreetly
Assalaamu alaykum. 1) Someone prays in a slow, moderate manner (he usually prays in this manner) and performs the sunnah acts of the prayer (raf'ul yadayn, jalsah istiraha) and wants to teach the other ignorant people who pray quickly and do not know the various sunnah acts of the prayer. Is this considered showing-off (riyaa')? 2) Someone found a small.. More
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Why Pharaoh's repentance was not accepted
I thought that one's repentance was accepted as long as the Day of Judgment has not yet started or the soul reaches the throat. The Pharaoh did it before these two took place, so why was his embracing of the religion not accepted?
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Seeking knowledge to refute misconceptions
Asalaamu alaykum. There is somoene whom I know who has a big problem; can you please write me a specific fatwa on it? Someone I know had a lot of doubts about Islam, so he brought one hundred books and went online and found many courses and many lecutres, hundreds of them. He found many studies of many books and many many classes and courses. He is.. More
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The ruling on whether it is from the Sunnah to drink while sitting or while standing
What is Sunnah? Does Sunnah mean the things that ProphetMuhammad, sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam,did? People say that drinking while sitting is Sunnah and not in the standing position. However, in one of your fatwas (50836), you quoted a hadith from An-Nasaa’i that says that the Prophet used to drink both standing and sitting (narrated by Aa'ishah,.. More
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