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Is taking intimate pictures of my spouse permissible?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Is taking pornographic pictures or videos of my spouse permissible?
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What does 'disliked' mean in the Hanafi school?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
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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RE: shaving the baby's head
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
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?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Is there a dua or special practice to do for a new home? Answer 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, …
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Having Doubts About Allah
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Please advise me: I am having big doubts in Allah Ta'ala. I weep and make du'a for them to go away, but they don't. It is ruining my life, I feel like I am so far from the Deen now.
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Fasting in extreme latitudes
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
How would these times be used for fasting in Ramadan? It seems that any of the methodologies enumerated could result in 20+ hour fasts, which does not seem reasonable for an entire month of fasting.
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How A Muslim Should Deal With Stress and Anxiety: 25 Ways to Deal with Stress and Anxiety
Abdul Malik Mujahid
How A Muslim Should Deal With Stress and Anxiety Answer Stress is life. Stress is anything that causes mental, physical, or spiritual tension. There is no running away from it. All that matters is how you deal with it.
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Islamic Manners: The Proper Manners of Eating
Shaykh Abdul Fattah Abu Ghudda
Islamic Manners: The Proper Manners of Eating Answer 6.1 THE IMPORTANCE OF EATING MANNERS Eating manners are very important since it is repeated many times every day. It must be done properly whether eating alone, with f…
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How about lost and found items? RE: Buying Cars at Auctions
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
If the item is known to have been a lost and found item (e.g.
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Who should I intend when giving the closing salams of the prayer?
Shaykh Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Academy Teacher
We end the salah by saying al-salaamu `alaykum to the right and then to the left. My question is: who exactly are we saying salam to? I learned in the SunniPath Introductory Arabic course that the kum in al-salamu `alayk…
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Wife spending household money for charity?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
A homemaker who does not "earn" her "own" money (i.e., independently of the husband) is apparently given some money by the husband--I'm not sure if it's exactly "to use at her discretion" or not.
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Giving Salams to Non-Muslims
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Giving Salams to Non-Muslims Answer In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, The word ‘Salam’ is one of the names of Allah Almighty and it is included in the Islamic greeting ‘Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatull…
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RE: Crying at night... A believer between fear, love, longing, and hope
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
The issue is that I cry a lot in the evening, especially lying in my bed and at Isha time, when I think about my sins and about my grave and my reckoning with Allah. I get very depressed and feel that the only place for …
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Unmarried girl... henna... gloves?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
There was a wedding in my family last week and all the women (many unmarried) applied henna to their hands. When I appeared hesitant to do so because I am unmarried, all the elders reacted severely and made a big deal ou…
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Eating out given chance of haram...
Mufti Yusuf Mullan
I was wondering if it is allowed for us to eat Pizza, since many if not all of the stores that serve Pizza have a pizza slicer, that they use to cut pie's that may have pepperoni on it. Does that make the Pizza dirty?
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Ignorance that Results from Religious Neglect is not an Excuse
Shaykh Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Academy Teacher
I recently read the following hadith: "A servant thoughtlessly says something pleasing to Allah Most High for which Allah raises him whole degrees And a servant thoughtlessly says something detested by Allah Most High fo…
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The right way of getting out of a mortgage...
Mufti Yusuf Mullan
I bought a house some time ago for 100 thousand pounds using a mortgage. I am determined to extricate myself from this situation because of the prohibitions against riba and am now going to sell the house.
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Makeup Prayers: Performing Sunna Prayers When One Has Makeup Prayers
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Can one pray salat at-tawbah, salat al-istikhara, salat al-hajah and other specific nafl prayers if one has qadas? If not, can one intend to pray the nafl prayer along with a qada prayer?
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Various Zakat Questions
Shaykh Abu Usamah
1. Should a husband and wife's zakat be computed separately or should it be lumped together? Answer Al-Salam `alaykum 1. The husband and wife should each compute their Zakah individually. 2.
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My friend acts as a middleman for interest-based home-financing. He doesn't follow a madhha
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
I have a friend who is an upright Muslim. He does not follow a madhab, and often uses his own reasoning to come up with his own opinion on something. Recently, he started a business in which he acts as a middleman for pe…
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Abdal-Hakim Murad: On Top of Europe: Walking the Alps
Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad
On top of Europe: Walking the Alps Answer On Top of Europe: Walking the Alps Getting away from the rat-race and enjoying the natural beauties of Europe seems to get harder by the minute.
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Victim of ribawi mortgage: Keeping our duty...
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
It is difficult to avoid standard (riba-based) bank mortgages. Can’t the one getting into them be considered a ‘victim’ of the system, rather than a sinner? Don’t the warnings relate primarily to those charge others inte…
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Headed to the wrong path... Establishing Prayer
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
I have a 9 month old daughter who tires me, I am out of the house for 12hrs (6am - 6pm), I have chores to do when I come home, my husband is out of town for several months, my mother - who lives with me- is a big help bu…
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Follow up question on custody
Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
I was reading the hanafi forum correspondence of the custody of children. I’m a little confused on an answer that you gave. Listed is what you wrote: “3. If the mother marries a person who is not a mahram [marriageable k…
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Doesn't the woman need her guardian's approval to marry?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Doesn't the woman need her guardian's approval to marry? Answer In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, It is certainly the sunna and proper way to get one’s guardian’s permission.
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The Fiqh of Sports and Games
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Is the playing of sports such as Rugby League or American football permissible in Islam? Answer In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, Islam is a very moderate religion that is free from any type of ext…
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Thoughts of others while married
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
Please advice what one can do if they think of others in a sexual way when they are in the presence of their spouse. Any dua, ayats, surah, zikrs... Answer Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah, 1.
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Denim Jilbabs?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
I would like to know if I am allowed to wear a jilbab made of jeans fabric, or if it would be "imitating the unbelievers" somehow, and so prohibited or disliked.
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What do I do if more sperm comes out after ghusl, but after I prayed?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
What do I do if more sperm comes out after ghusl, but after I prayed? Answer In the name of Allah, ar-Rahman, ar-Raheem and may His abundant blessings and most most perfect of peace be showered on the Best of Creation.
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Blood Transfusions and Donations: A Detailed Explanation
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
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