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A Little Fiqh of Lost & Found Items
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
What's the ruling on money that is found? to whom does it belong and what does the finder have to do to return it to the owner? we're talking about 20 dinars worth here, so not a massive amount, but still enough to sadde…
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Lost a borrowed book, picked up almost the same one... What to do (and not do) with lost trusts
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
I once borrowed a book from someone. I put the book on a university prayer room book shelf. After a while it disappeared. Many months later a book reappeared which looked almost exactly like the one that disappeared. I t…
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Masturbation: Advice for someone who wakes up with this problem...
Sidi Naeem Abdul Wali
I had a sister come to me yesterday in great distress. She confessed that she finds herself masturbating and is not sure what to do to stop.
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Masturbation: A Disastrous Problem Faced by the Youth
Moulana Abdullah Ismail
Masturbation: A Disastrous Problem Faced by the Youth Faraz Rabbani notes: someone sent this... Looks good... Introduction All praises are only for Allah. We praise Him, seek His Help and beseech Him to forgive us.
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The Rules of Backbiting
(Ibn Qudama's Abridgement of al-Ghazali's Ihya Ulum al-Din)
I want to know what exactly constitutes 'gheebat' or gossiping in Islam... I mean if someone's actions directly affect you and you discuss the problem with others is that gheebat?
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Suicide: Funeral & Sin
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
Are there any restrictions on making janaza for a brother who has committed suicide?
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Takfir - Anathematizing
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
Does any person (be it a regular person or a an 'alim) have the right to put any other person (who claims to be Muslim), out of faith?... if yes, is there anything in the the Quran or Sunnah that would prove it?
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Some Fiqh of Speech: Mentioning Another Negatively Thinking the Listener Does Not Know Them
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: If I mentioned a negative thing about another person without mentioning them thinking that the listener didn't know them. It turns out that the listener did know who I was talking about. Is this backbiting (gheebat)?
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Using Magic Against Someone: A Specific Case
Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
The scenario is that a brother had his a large amount of his property stolen from him and so he approached another brother about reclaiming this property. To which he was asked for his name and his mothers name and it wa…
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Advice to teenagers considering pursuing drugs
Sidi Naeem Abdulwali
What practical advice from the sunnah of our prophet (saw) or from the words of the Quran would you give a teenager who for some reason thought that drugs are not haraam and therefore wanted to start trying them?
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Can DNA Testing Be Used to Establish Paternity?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Can DNA testing be used to establish paternity?
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Convert with child, living with non-Muslim parents... difficult issues
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
Almost three years ago I converted to Islam after being divorced and having a child from a Muslim that the marriage was to put it nicely not good at all so now I live with my family who are extremely religious Christians…
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The Dreaded One: Mother-in-Law Giving a Hard Time...
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
My friend's mother-in-law is making my friends life miserable. Her mother-in-law is emotionally abusive, manipulative and down right cruel towards her. My friend has been bearing the hurt - praying and begging her husban…
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The Fiqh Related to New Born Children
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
The fiqh related to new born children.
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Getting Married and Domestic Troubles
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam, UK
I am currently in college right now with insha'Allah one year left and I want to get married to a girl I have known from high school.
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Golden Principles of Raising Children
Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali
Principles of Raising Children Golden Principles of Raising Children Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali Imam Ghazali (May God Shower His Mercy Upon Him)’s Arabic Book on the Subject from His Three-Volumes Collection of S…
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Guidance on Bringing up Children
Imam Ashraf Ali al-Tahanawi
Guidance on Bringing up Children Guidance on Bringing up Children - by Imam Ashraf Ali al-TahanawiIt should be borne in mind that the bringing up of children in the proper manner is of prime importance.
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I want to study, parents say...
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam & another scholar
I am a female. I want to study, parents let my sisters study but they don’t let me now, because I should get married and things like that. I am frustrated because I want to have knowledge and a skill to be useful within …
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Interacting with my sister-in-law
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari, UK
Because I am currently a student, my wife and I live with my parents. Sometimes, when my brother and his wife visit the home, some issues regarding interaction arise.
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Is Being A Sayyid Such A Big Deal? Even If One Is Not Religious?
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
My mother is a sayyed but she married my father who is not a sayed. As a result the majority of my mother's family do not associate with us at all, they don't even say salam to us even now, over 30 years later. Do they h…
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Is it permitted to touch the feet of elders? It is common in our culture.
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Is it permitted to touch the feet of elders? It is common in our culture.
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Marriageable Relations Being Forbidden by Touching
Sidi Faraz Rabbani and Sidi Sohail Hanif
The following statement is from Endless Bliss 4: "Committing fornication with a woman or touching any part of her with lust, even if by forgetting or by mistake, according to the Hanafi and the Hanbali Madhhabs, causes H…
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My non-Muslim family, their life, and my wife
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
I am a relatively recent Swedish convert to Islam. I live with my wife at my family’s house.
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Obeying One's Husband...
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
Is it permissible for a man to forbid his wife from meeting with and/or talking to her parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, and/or friends, even if without any reason (an understandable reason is established reason to fear …
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Pre-Birth Questions
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
As I am due to becoming a mother, I have some questions regarding childbirth. Walaikum assalam, Just general nasiha: Do a lot of dhikr and Qur’an recital before, during and after your childbirth.
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Questions Related to Aqiqa and Babies
Sheikh Ilyas Patel
My husband and I live in England and we were considering to have the Aqiqa (more specifically the slaughtering of the animal/s) after the birth of our baby, done in another country because we felt the distribution of the…
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The reward for good husbands and fathers
Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf
I am looking for hadith or quranic verses indicating how men can gain reward from Allah through their relations with their spouses, children, etc. Can anyone give me some direction (names of websites, books, articles, et…
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The Signs of Puberty
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
What are the signs of reaching adulthood for men and women? Details helpful, please.”
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What is the fiqh of adopting a child?
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam, UK
What is the fiqh of adopting a child? In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful Adopting a child, bringing it up, seeing to its education and training and being kind and good towards him/her is very virtuous …
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What relationship must one have with one's in-laws? What rights do they have?
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari, UK
I would like to know the relationship that a husband and a wife must have with their parents in law. I have read many articles talking extensively about the wife's relation with her husband's parents, but none about the …