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Is it permitted to be a police officer in the West?
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam, Leicester (UK)
Is it permitted to be a police officer in the West?
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Are men allowed to wear white gold rings or those that are made from metal, wood, brass, etc...?
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari, UK
Are men allowed to wear white gold rings or those that are made from metal, wood, brass, etc…? In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, It is unlawful for men to adorn themselves with any type of jeweller…
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Is it permitted for women to wear rings from other than gold and silver?
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam
Is it permitted for women to wear rings from other than gold and silver? In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most merciful, Shariah has not only permitted women to adorn themselves, rather they are encouraged to do…
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Is shaving the head a sunna?
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam
In his (sallAllahu `alaihi wasallam) blessed lifetime how many times did al-Mustafa, Rasulullah (sallAllahu ta`ala `alaihi wa alihi wa sahbihi wasallam) shaved his mubarak head (or had it shaved)? And on what occasion(s)…
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Is the Jilbab (outer garment) Obligatory?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Is the Jilbab (outer garment) Obligatory? There have been several questions about this. Allah Most High says: "O Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and believing women that they should cast their outer garments over …
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La Nabi ya Baadi [No Prophet after me]
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
I have read a hadith related to Hazrat Aisha Siddiqa (Razi Allahu Anha) that she said "o people!
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My mother can stand and bow but not prostrate, how should she pray?
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
My mother can stand and bow but not prostrate-- due to an operation she had... Should she do the whole prayer sitting, or stand for what she can and then sit in a chair when she needs to do sujud?
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Welfare, Working Under the Table, and the Issue of Cheating and Deception
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
What is the ruling on: 1)One who is on welfare? 2)One who is on welfare and works under the table? 3)recieving unemployment insurance? The Light of Creation, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said,…
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Covering in front of other women
Shaykh Abu Usamah
Is it ok for a non Muslim relative of the same sex to wax the area of the legs above the knee? If the intention is to beautify oneself for their husband?
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Hypochondria, whisperings of the Devil, and sickness
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
I am 24 years old. and I have been troubled by the whisperings of shaitaan (I think). I sometimes worry about things so much that it causes me to have extreme anxiety where I feel sick to my stomach. [...]
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`Isa physically raised alive to heaven
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
A new translation of the meaning of the Qur'an named "The Holy Qur'an" by Allamah Nooruddin is being sold in Islamic book stores in America.On page 62-B of the glossary, while explaining the arabic word rafa'a, the trans…
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Istighatha: Calling Someone Other Than Allah for Help. Followed by an answer on the permissibility of Tawassul: using intermediaries in supplication to Allah
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari, UK
Is it permitted to call someone other than Allah for help? Is this not bordering on shirk? How about taking vows for other than Allah? In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, There are two aspects to you…
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Can non-Muslims enter a mosque? What are the conditions?
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
Can non-Muslims enter a mosque? What are the conditions? Walaikum assalam, It is permitted for non-Muslims to enter the mosque, if they get permission of Muslims, and behave respectfully towards the mosque.
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How to prostrate when injured?
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam, UK
I am a trainee solicitor and my firm is dealing with a matter in which an individual suffered injuries in a road accident which he alleges prevent him from attending a mosque on the basis that he is unable to touch his f…
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My wife no longer practices... can I divorce her?
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam, Leicester, UK
I would like to ask what, are permissible reasons to divorce one’s wife. We have been married for 6 years. Beginning of the marriage my wife used to pray and cover. Now, she neither prays nor covers, and has little regar…
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Emotional abuse and marriage
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
What position should a wife take if her husband calls he unpious, women of the jahiliyyah, and other derogatory terms, mainly because he is an extreme salafi and she is a new shahada? The husband is incarcerated and does…
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Why don't Hanafis say 'Ameen' out loud?
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
What is the proof in the Hanafi school for not saying ameen loudly after fatiha (in congregational prayers), especially in light of hadiths that say we should (such as whoever's ameen coincides with that of the angels, a…
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I was married to my cousin... but I can't stand him...
Shaykh Abdurahman ibn Yusuf, CA
Last summer holidays I got married to my cousin, actually I didn't wanted to but still I did it because my parents wanted me to do so, and only if I married him , I could go to university else I had to stay home all my l…
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Married, but my husband and mother hate each other...
Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf, CA
I am a 24 year old Muslim woman. I got married last year... in the last year my husband and my mother have developed a mutual hatred for each other. She wants me to divorce him and he wants me never to speak to her again…
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Prayer: Can the follower ' read the Fatiha in their mind'?
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
Being that the muqtadhi doesn't recite anything in congregation prayer, what is one supposed to think about during that period of silence in prayer? Is it permissible to read the fatihah in one's mind?
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RE: husband is trouble
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
I am mum of three kids. My husband is making my life hell. He does not know how to keep balance between family and his parents family. He has started hitting me from now on. He is so good repute outside that nobody would…
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Can a husband take a picture of his wife whilst she is naked or film their bedroom relations?
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam, Leicester, UK
Is it permissible for a husband to take a picture of his wife whilst she is naked and vice versa?
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Is it disliked to use a toothstick (miswak) without wetting it?
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
Is it disliked to use a tooth stick (miswak) without wetting it? The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Had I not feared hardship for my Community, I would have ordered them to brush their tee…
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What does 'disliked' mean in the Hanafi school?
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari, based on Shaykh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda's writings
What is the Hanafi definition of karaha? What are its categories? What are their definitions? In what way is it deduced from legal evidence?
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Mahrams - those one can never marry
Shaykh Abu Usamah, SA
Please could you answer these questions for me as people seem to differ in their opinion about this. Would the husbands maternal and paternal uncles be mahram to the wife? i.e. she does not have to cover in front of them…
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Rumi: Do Not Despair
A Poem By Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi
Do Not Despair Do Not Despair A Poem By Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi Say, do not despair because the Beloved drives you away; if He drives you away today, will He not call you back tomorrow?
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The Soul, Reason, Restraint, and Felicity
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
The Soul, Reason, Restraint, and Felicity The Soul, Reason, Restraint, and Felicity From the Words of Shaykh Muhiy al-Din Ibn Arabi (as related by Abdullah Badr al-Habashi in his Kitab al-Inaba, tr.Denis Gril) 2 The soul…
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RE: shaving the baby's head
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Someone objected to the response that shaving the head is not a specific sunna in the Hanafi school by saying: Shaving of the head is sunnah. A strongly recommended practice.
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Is there a dua or special practice to do for a new home?
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
Is there a dua or special practice to do for a new home? In general, it is good to pray 2 rakats of voluntary prayer (or more), and then to make dua that Allah make the house a place of baraka, serenity, worship, and goo…
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Trust Fund
Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam, Darul Iftaa (Leicester, UK)
My Grandmother set up a trust fund to pay for education for her Grandchildren, but that we can ask for money from at any time, and any that is not used will be shared equally between the children as they each reach 25. T…