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Prohibited times for Prayers: What about the prostration of recital & makeup prayers in these times?
Sidi Sohail Hanif
Please excuse me for my ignorance but I was under the impression that sajda is only forbidden at sunrise, sunset and zawwal. You wrote to me that sajda is impermissible after asr...
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Is it permissible for an old woman not to wear a head-covering (khimar) or a loose outer garment (jilbab)?
Shaykh Amjad Rasheed
Allah Most High says, "As for women past child-bearing, who have no hope of marriage, it is no sin for them if they discard their garments without displaying adornment. But to refrain is better for them. Allah is All-Hea…
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Is it forbidden to pay large amounts of money to the bride’s father, & how to deal with this custom
Shaykh Amjad Rasheed
I am from Yemen and it is the custom of my people to pay exorbitant amounts of money to the father of the bride in order to make him agree to the marriage. I think that this is forbidden, but what should I do if they don…
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Is talking after 'isha disliked or forbidden?
Shaykh Amjad Rasheed
Is talking after 'isha disliked or forbidden? Is it permissible for someone to talk with his wife? Is there a special ruling for places at extremely northern latitudes where the time for isha enters extremely early (e.g.…
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When is it obligatory upon the parents to get their young daughter to wear hijab?
Shaykh Amjad Rasheed
When is it obligatory upon the parents to get their young daughter to wear hijab?
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What to believe about Shias?
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
What to believe about Shias? Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah, Shaykh Nuh Keller explained this during his recent set of lessons in Lahore last month. www.DeenPort.com hosts this answer. See: http://www.youtea.com/audio/ …
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Death: the shore of safety where real life begins… dealing with loss of a parent
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
I have a friend who is a girl I respect as a sister. Her father has recently past away and she is very confused on a lot of things to a certain extent she is questioning faith.
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Praying Witr when Making up Missed Prayers
Sidi Hamza Karamali
I am in the process of making up missed prayers and they are many in number. In order to speed things, I pray one rakat of witr after Isha. Is praying one rakat of witr acceptable in the Shafi'i madhab?
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The integrals and sunnas of Friday Khutbah
Sidi Hamza Karamali
In a Jumma arrangement at work, for the last 3 years we have been praying with a khutba in English in two parts with a little Arabic quran or dua mixed inside it. A group of five of us rotate to do the khutba. Recently, …
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What is the proof for the unlawfulness of talfiq? And what is its exact definition?
Shaykh Amjad Rasheed
What is the proof for the unlawfulness of talfiq? And what is its exact definition? Talfiq is when a person joins between the sayings of two mujtahid imams in his worship or business whereby he produces a composed ruling…
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People say Islam is easy. How can Islam be easy when there are Volumes of books on Fiqh, Tafsir of Hadith and Tafsir of Quran and a majority of the population will never be able to study traditionally under a shaykh. So why do people say Islam is easy when we will never hear an A'lim say that, "I breezed through my studies"
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
People say Islam is easy. How can Islam be easy when there are Volumes of books on Fiqh, Tafsir of Hadith and Tafsir of Quran and a majority of the population will never be able to study traditionally under a shaykh.
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Pre-ejaculate fluid, madhy, calls for washing and ablution before praying
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
I just need to ask a question about reality. Say a man marries his wife, and the marriage is still new. Of course they may go out one day, and give each other a small kiss and hold hands wherever they are. This is ok sin…
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Is it obligatory to make up missed prayers?
Hanafi Fiqh Staff
If one has not always been praying, is it then fard for him to make up the prayers (according to the Hanafi school of thought)? If yes, then when should he pray them? Should it be after the fard daily prayers? And how ma…
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Proposed by the one her friend likes… should she reject him only because of her friend?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
I find my self in need of moral advice, if a friend is upset over a proposal given to another friend by the man she likes, what is the proposed girl to do, should she reject him only because of her friend.
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Is it permissible to show hair to, not just any suitor, but your future spouse?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
I have heard from my Hanafi teachers that it is impermissible for a woman to show her hair to a suitor, that those who say it is permissible are using a very weak opinion.
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What is the Islamic ruling on festivals like basant (kite flying) famous in Indo-Pak
Sidi al-Hajj Muhammad Salim Ghisa
What is the Islamic ruling on festivals like basant (kite flying) famous in Indo-Pak Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. The legal ruling for following non Islamic traditions carries different rulings: 1.
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Commanding the right & forbidding the wrong: Using wisdom with those who are new to the faith…
Sidi Hamza Karamali
I have a sister in Islam she is a convert like I am only she is much older, has been a convert for 4 years and has no Muslim community in her area. She is in the USA but her area is small. She is 67 years old, has been m…
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Pre-ejaculate fluid, madhy, calls for washing and ablution before praying
Sidi Hamza Karamali
I just need to ask a question about reality. Say a man marries his wife, and the marriage is still new. Of course they may go out one day, and give each other a small kiss and hold hands wherever they are. This is ok sin…
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Man leading non-mahram women in prayer and barrier issues
Sidi Hamza Karamali
Is it permissible for men and women to pray in a room without a barrier between them if they are not mahram of each other if the space is relatively small or is this more an issue of gender adab and scrupulousness?
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The Sunna is the Second Source of the Shariah
Sidi Faraz Rabbani
The Sunna is the Second Source of the Shariah The Sunna is the Second Source of the Shariah -Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad, Key to the Garden (Miftah al-Jannah) You have learnt that the Sunna consists of the sayings, act…
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Marriageable relations: Are children of brother and sister through nursing allowed to marry?
Shaykh Yusuf Mullan
A man X and a woman Y have drunk the milk of same woman for about one year. Can the son of man X and daughter of woman Y marry each other? Wa alaikum salaam, Yes. They can marry. (In fact, man A can marry woman B’s daugh…
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Overlooking others faults for the sake of Allah… and acquiring good character
Shaykh Yusuf Mullan
I read an answer mentioning that we are supposed to love our Muslim brothers and try to oversee their bad qualities or faults. My question is, when ever I am around some Muslim brothers, they irritate me to such an exten…
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Gambling: Contract transacted upon an unknown outcome
Shaykh Yusuf Mullan
I have a question regarding the conditions of gambling. I am in a fantasy sports league, where team success is based on the success of our individual players we have chosen.
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Isn't acting on weak hadiths an innovation
Shaykh Amjad Rasheed
Why did the scholars who follow madhab allow acting on weak hadith? Isn’t this a gross innovation? Audio translated by Sidi Faraz Rabbani Text translated by Sr.
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Superficial demonization of Islam
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
Why do Muslims fail to do anything about the terror that extremist Muslims are creating against the West? ... Sadly, in the media, it appears that Muslims across the world tend to acquiesce and generally accept terror wi…
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Superiority of the Prophet, upon him peace
Shaykh Gibril Haddad
I feel that our Prophet IS superior but I wonder about this hadith, also there is an ayat in the Quran I believe in Surah Baqara re choosing one Prophet over another or something to that extent.
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Is my job permissible? If it’s assisting in sin…
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari
1- I work in retail and my job is to set up an account with customers. With this account they get a card which gives them a credit limit of £195. So they can purchase upto that value without incurring any interest charge…