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Can we unilaterally cancel a contract?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
We agreed with a customer to send her a specified amount of goods (specified by product, size and color). They agreed and have already paid (she sent the money on Monday).
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Why is there so much concern with 'manner's (adab) in Islam?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Why is there so much concern with 'manner's (adab) in Islam? Answer Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah, The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) told us that, “I was only sent to perfect noble character.”
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Can Women Travel Without A Mahram?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Can Women Travel Without A Mahram?
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Can you wear articles of clothing that you have stolen, now that you have paid for them?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
If you repay back the company you stole from for stealing a shirt, it is permissible to wear the shirt now? Or do you have to give the shirt away like to a charity or something.
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Wife doesn't like husband, and refuses bedroom relations...
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
If someone gets married with a girl who doesn't like him and she doesn't want him to come near her in the bed. And if he does something forcefully with her, so will he be a wrongdoer or not.
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Using Ta`wizes (Amulets)
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Is it permissible to use amulets (i.e. hang) to deflect evil eye? Answer Assalamu alaikum, It is permitted to use ta`wizes (amulets) as a means to protect oneself, while knowing that Allah is the only one who protects or…
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The Great Farting: The Importance of Language
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
The Great Farting: The Importance of Language Answer As salaamu alaykum tell your …. to shape up their English translations. some of their stuff is quite entertaining, actually.
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Imam Al-Ghazali on the Duties of Brotherhood
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Imam Al-Ghazali On the Duties of Brotherhood Answer Submitted by a subscriber: Imam Al-Ghazali On the Duties of Brotherhood by Sulaiman Kazi In Al-Ghazali's major work Ihya ulum al-din or 'The Revival of Religious Scienc…
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What do today's Muslims need and what does Islam have to offer?
Dr. Sherif Abdel Azeem Muhammad
What do today's Muslims need and what does Islam have to offer? Answer A brief introduction: This is an acclaimed Eid-ul-fitr khutba (edited) given by Dr. Sherif Abdel Azeem Mohammad in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in early…
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Masturbation, Sin, Fasts, and Expiation (RE: does it break fast?)
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
Does masturbation which results in ejaculation with pleasure break the Fast (of Ramadan). If yes and this is done in more than one fast will expiation be separate or one expiation for all the fasts? Answer Walaikum assal…
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What if someone drank breast milk?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Dear Mufti in the reply you mentioned that it is permissible out of necessity to drink breast milk-would this not carry the implications therefore that the one drinking becomes a foster child of the whose milk it is? (de…
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The Fiqh of Lost & Found: What are the rules pertaining to lost and found goods?
Shaykh Sohail Hanif, SunniPath Academy Teacher
What are the rules pertaining to lost and found goods? Answer There are a number of rules concerning lost and found goods. In fact, books of fiqh normally have an entire chapter devoted to the topic. The basic rules can …
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Garments with Pictures of Animals
Shaykh Ilyas Patel
I would like to know please whether it is allowed to wear a garment that contains a picture of an animal.
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Marriage : Tips for a Better Husband & Wife Relationship
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
Marriage: Tips for a Better Husband & Wife Relationship Answer By Ibrahim Bowers Although many Muslims may right now be in failing marriages and on a fast track to divorce and its terrible consequences, there are many wa…
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Abusive mother and custody rights
Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
This question relates to custody of children after a divorce. When a mother verbally and physically abuses a child does the custody go to the father? For example, she uses objects to hit her child and bruises them.
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Questions relating to the custody of children, when parents have divorced
Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
I would be most grateful if the Islamic view of custody of children (following the separation/divorce of parents) was explained to me in detail.
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Menstruation: Intercourse and sexual relations during period
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
I know that intercourse during period (menstruation) is not permitted. Could you please describe if it's committed what are the rulings of Shariah.
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Why do Hanafis place their hands down so low... below the navel!???
Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
Why do Hanafis place their hands down so low... below the navel!??? Answer In the name of Allah, Most Gracious Most Merciful. It is sunna for men to place the hands beneath the navel in prayer.
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Important Basics: Intentions, Sustaining them, Prophetic Guidance, Asking, and Learning
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Important Basics: Intentions, Sustaining them, Prophetic Guidance, Asking, and Learning Answer Assalamu alaikum, Ibn Raslan (Allah have mercy on him), author of al-Zubad, a blessed thousand-line poem in Shafi`i fiqh expl…
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Non-Muslims' Meat Claims & Non-Zabiha Meat...
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Nowadays, one can find non-Muslim shops, supermarkets and takeaways that claim to sell Halaal meat i.e. buy from bona fide Halaal suppliers. Would these be Halaal from a Muslim point of view? Can we purchase these items …
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Taking interest in non-Muslim lands?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
It has been mentioned in previous Q&As that it is haram to take or give interest, but is it not the opinion of Imam Abu Hanifa and Imam Shaybani as stated by Imam Sarakhsi in al-Sayr al-kabir wa sharhuhu, that it is perm…
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Where does the soul go after death?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Where does the soul go after death? I know the body rises up again on Judgement Day. But where is the soul all this time?
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The Fiqh of Covering One's Nakedness (Awra): A Detailed Explanation
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
The Fiqh of Covering One's Nakedness (Awra): A Detailed Explanation Answer In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, The covering of one’s nakedness (awra) is of utmost importance for a male and female in …
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Zina, then Marriage: Allowed?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
My question is, a friend of the family has been married for 4 weeks and has been told by his wife that she is 5 months pregnant from her ex boyfriend.
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Children: What is the proper age to start Qur'an?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
I have a question about the proper age for a child to read Qur'an? When should parents start teaching their child ,how to read Qur'an? Also, what is the appropriate age for a child to start memorizing Qur'an?
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Is organ donation permissible?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Is organ donation permissible? Answer In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, The issue of organ transplant has been a matter of great debate and dispute among the great contemporary scholars from around…
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Death: Backbiting the dead, judging them, and concern for oneself
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
Is it regarded backbiting if you talk bad about someone after they have died? also if s/he is kafir is it ok to say glad tidings of hell? Answer Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah, The rules of backbiting apply to the dead,…
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RE: Thinking of Allah
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
When one thinks of Allah, I know that is forbidden to think of Him the Almighty as a human, or a man astaghfirullah or attribute Him to any of the creation. It is human tendency to think of someone and make an image of t…
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The Basmala and the Preservation of the Quran
Shaykh Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Academy Teacher
Salam ua alaykum, We discussed in Lesson 2's session that the Quran is mutawatir. However there is a debate amongst the scholars about whether the basmala is part of the Fatiha or not.
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Zakat on a Business Jointly Owned by a Muslim and a non-Muslim
Shaykh Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Academy Teacher
AsSalaam Alaykum Sidi, If a company were jointly owned between muslims and non-muslims, how would zakat work then? Say the muslim owned 70% of the business and the non-muslim owned 30%, how would zakat be paid? Jazakum A…