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My bleeding friend missed Friday prayer...
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: He was shaving around his private parts and he started bleeding, it wasn't a big cut but it wouldn't stop bleeding, in the end he ended up staying in the bathroom way too long and missed jummah prayer because he was tr…
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RE: Reciting behind the Imam
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: Do we recite the "subhanakala humma wa bi hamdika..." when reading in a jamat, especially in the case that you are not reading behind a hanafi imam... or do we remain silent as in the rest of the prayer?
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RE: Emotions and Usury
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: I keep your view in great esteem as you are doing it out of your love for Islam. However, it is my feeling that we often miss the actual message whenever we are in emotional love.
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Can a wife refuse to migrate with her husband?
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: If a Muslim man wanted to travel out of the country either temporary or permanently what rights does the wife have in terms of requesting to stay in her native country and not travel?
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Someone owes me money. And: On the excellence of being generous in buying and selling, taking and giving, settling debts and accounts well...
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: If someone owes one money but seems to have forgotten about it - should the person who it is owed to remind that person? Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah, 1. There is nothing wrong with reminding the person in a tactful…
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Is wudu invalidated by taking off one's scarf?
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
Since I was a child, I have always been told that removing the scarf (even momentarily) from my head after ghusl requires me to do fresh wudu before I can pray salah. However, I do not have to do this if I merely want to…
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RE: Islamic Architecture
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: I wanted to know the hukm on Islamic Architecture. My professor says that if the Prophet (salAllahu 3aly Wassalam) saw those architecture masterpiece mosques that have been built in the past, he would disapprove of the…
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Is it obligatory to cover the area under the chin?
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
I read that some scholars say that covering the chin and under it is fardh, but some say because of its difficulty it is not.
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RE: Milad (Is it permissible to celebrate the Prophet's birthday (Allah bless him and give him peace)?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
How do you reconcile the views of .... and others in the links: [links...] with what you wrote about Milad? Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah, I do not see any reason to reconcile the views.
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RE: Spiritual significance of ghusl
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: From a spiritual point of view, what is the significance of performing the ghusl on the deceased? What is the significance of performing the ghusl after conjugal rights (sexual activity) when it is considered an act of…
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More Qur'an-only Feminism
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
Review of Amina Wadud's article, "`A'ishah's Legacy: the struggle for women's rights in Islam." Review of Amina Wadud's article, "`A'ishah's Legacy: the struggle for women's rights in Islam."
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What if you leave a wajib act in prayer?
Shaykh Abu Usamah
: What if someone had the intention to make Sajdatul sahu, made salam, and forgot and did something which invalidates the prayer. Would they have to make up the prayer if the time did not pass? or is this a different cas…
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"So which of your Lord's blessings do you both then deny?"
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: "So which of your Lord's blessings do you both then deny?" (Surah ar-Rahman) Ibn al-Banna of Saragossa said in his poem: Do you know why you are? And how would you know? You have isolated the intellect.
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Sheikh `Abd al-Qadir's Allegory: The Fortress of Iman
Sidi Musa Furber
Sheikh `Abd al-Qadir's Allegory: The Fortress of Iman Some Muslims are of the opinion that as long as they do the bare minimum (integrals, conditions, and the essential and obligatory actions) they have done enough.
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Questions on Pre-Marital Affection
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari, Leicester (UK)
In most of our Muslim families, the girl and the suitor do not know each other for very long time and only have seen each other once or twice before marriage.
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Regarding Investing in the Stock Market...
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam (UK)
: I am slightly confused. Firstly, one cannot invest (i.e. buy shares) in a company without it being listed on the stock market.
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Music and Singing: A Detailed Fatwa
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari, Leicester (UK)
Music and Singing: A detailed fatwa In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, The worst case scenario in the event of being inflicted with a disease is when the one involved refuses to believe that he has …
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Allah vs. boyfriend
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
: I have a boyfriend that I have been seeing for a month now, last nite when I was with him I was feeling so guilty about doing something haram. I could not sleep all night and I woke up at fajr praying to god for 2 hour…
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Belief in the Descent of `Isa (Jesus)
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
I have learned that Hazrat Ees’a (as) will return from the heavens before Yaum’al-Qyamat [...] but I know a Muslim who will not believe in it. In Ahadith we find several which say that ibn Maryam (as) will return.
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Miscarriage - Loss of a child
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
If a woman has a miscarriage, can it be due to stress, wrong she has committed, if another is unhappy with her, if she goes to the beach even though she didn't want to ( I have been told jinn on beaches especially can ha…
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From Drury Lane to Makka
Abdal-Hakim Murad
: From Drury Lane to Makka © Abdal-Hakim Murad History has not recorded the name of the first British Muslim to carry out the rites of Hajj.
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Spiritual Music with Instruments?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Truth be told I had left music but then re-started listening to it again, in part because of some spiritual Islamic CDs that contain musical instruments including violins, different types of drums Walaikum assalam wa rah…
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Joining Between Evidences and Ijtihad
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: I heard that one way of hanafi jurists joining between 2 ahadiths is to try to satisfy both of them at the same time e.g. in the case of holding hands in the prayer.
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'There is no reward without intention'
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: Do you get reward for following a personal whim or desire that happens to be an act of sunnah, or do you have to have full intention of performing the sunnah for ibadah in order to be rewarded? Walaikum assalam, In the…
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Questions About Separation Initiated by the Wife (Khul`)
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari, Leicester (UK)
: There is a Muslim sister who was married to a brother. At the time, they were both not praying, fasting or anything.She was not wearing hijaab either. Then she changed.
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The Excellence of Knowledge
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: The excellence of knowledge From Imam Nawawi’s Gardens of the Righteous (Riyad al-Salihin) [Ustadha Bewley’s translation] 241. Chapter: the excellence of knowledge Allah says , "Say: 'My Lord!
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Ghazali on the Excellence of Knowledge
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: Ghazali on the excellence of knowledge Extract from THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE Being a Translation with notes of Kitab al-‘Ilm of Al-Ghazzali’s Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din by NABIH AMIN FARISSH.
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RE: People criticize Majallat al Ahkam al Adaliyyah
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
: I have heard some brothers criticise your use of the Majallat al Ahkam al Adaliyyah as a valid source for fiqh or principles of fiqh (e.g. the post re.
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Does the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) know when I perform a good deed?
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
Please can you tell me if when I do a sunna or a good deed, does the Prophet (saw) know that I am doing this? and does he get happy? and also, I was told a hadith, that the Prophet (saw) is shown the deeds of the ummah, …
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Christian-Muslim Marriage
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
: Respected Sir, I am a practicing Christian and I want to make it clear to you before I start off that I am not at all confused in my concept of God. The thing is I love a girl who is a Muslim.