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  • Ruling on Speaking to Female Classmates and the Correct Approach to Marriage

    Assalamu 'alaykum I'm a bit confused about free mixing. What exactly counts as speaking out of necessity? When I speak with girls at my university, I often wonder if it's really necessary. Plus, it's tough to to marry a girl you want without spending time together, even if it's just in public and without touching, since fathers might not understand.. More

  • Advising One’s Mother Who Does Not Observe Hijab and Accompanying Her in Public or Travel

    Assalamu’alaykum,My mother doesn’t wear hijab and often travels far alone. She wants to visit my brother who lives far. Since she doesn’t wear hijab I thought maybe in general being with her in public would be counted as a sin. But at the same time if I let her travel far alone would that be a sin also? I don’t want to go all the time she travels.. More

  • The Permissibility of Transporting Women Who Are Not Properly Dressed

    Asalamaleykum. Living in a kafir country whose women mostly don’t wear the proper Islamic hijab (modest clothing). Is transporting immodest Muslim or non-Muslim women when there’s no seclusion inside the cab assisting in tabarruj?.. More

  • Ruling on a Woman Traveling Without a Mahram After Embracing Islam

    Assalaam aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.My question: Is it permissible for me to travel by plane (1-hour flight) to visit my non-Muslim family to meet my 9-month-old son when my husband cannot accompany me and I have no mahram? The visit is important to maintain family ties and avoid worsening relations or negative views of Islam... More

  • The Ruling on Compelling a Daughter-in-Law to Work

    What is the ruling in Islam if parents-in-law demand that their daughter-in-law work, even though she has a toddler and cannot afford a nanny?.. More

  • Is Transporting a Female Worker Considered Prohibited Seclusion?

    Asalamaleykum. For transportation contract job with a company, main customers are three men but incase i’m ordered to transport a woman colleague which causes seclusion. Will I avoid seclusion by video calling mahrams so we’ll be monitored while in the car until non mahram gets out of the car?.. More

  • The Ruling on Uncovering the Face Before a Brother-in-law at a Mother’s Request

    I observe Shariah parda niqab, but my mother is against it. We live in Karachi and now shifting to Lahore, where my brotherin-law and czns lives. Earlier, she fought and abused me for doing parda from non-mehrams and cousins, but now she says she’ll accept everything if I just remove my niqab before my brother-in-law. She cries, begs, and says she’s.. More

  • Ruling on Permitting a Wife to Work in Order to Support her Parents

    Can a husband forbid his wife from working if the women wants to for her parents who live alone and don't have a son? What if the father of the woman has his siblings living right next to his house, who always have been helping him financially? Can the man stipulate the no job condition before marriage?What if the man isn't able to take their responsibility.. More

  • Obeying a Husband in Regard to not Covering the Face

    Assalamu alaikum,My husband told me to choose between him and the niqab because he married his wife without one and that's what he wants. I'm more inclined to believe that it's obligatory, Allahu Alam, even if it's mandatory. I want to get closer to Allah. What should I do? Calm conversations don't help, and we live in a country where there aren't many.. More

  • Wife Who Wears Immodest Clothing

    Assalamu alaykum,I’ve been married for a year. My wife prays, fasts, is respectful, has good principles and gets along well with my family. However, she doesn’t wear hijab and often wears clothes that show her arms and lower legs (below the knee), and swims in a one-piece swimsuit. I advised her many times, but she says she’s not ready and doesn’t.. More

  • Wear Hijab and Do Not Care What People Think of You

    if someone doesn’t want to wear hijab for fear of criticism from other people, is this shirk or riya? please tell me because i want to wear hijab in 2 years once i graduate from school but i fear the amount of judgement ill receive because no one is really religious here and i don’t want to be a mushrik, but im wearing clothes more modestly now,.. More

  • Slight Movements in Prayer

    I realize that my hijab is easily fell off when I do movement from i'tidal to sujud. Then I adjust my hijab twice while praying. Is that movement to adjust my hijab is useless movement that invalidate my prayer?.. More

  • A Husband Preventing his Wife from Going out of the House Permanently

    Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh esteemed Shaykhs of Islamweb. I would like to ask a question, and if possible i would like the answer to be detailed.1. What is the ruling on a husband preventing his wife from going out of the house permanently? Will there be times where the husband is sinful for this perhaps if the wife is mentally harmed.. More

  • Meaning of Men Being in Charge of Women

    Shiekh, for example, if a man who is in charge of his a woman, like a father over his daughter or a husband over a wife exaggerates his power, like not allowing her to work or go out for school or for halal leisure without going out too often, like strolling in a safe park or going to all female gym, even if all the conditions of Shari'a are followed.. More

  • Ruling of a Female Residing and Studying Abroad

    My question is i have a frnd she want to study abroad is it halal or permissible for her to travel with mahram to that country she wants to study and live alone without mahram in a safe environment. Because as far as i know she can live alone if she is sure she can follow the deen and cqn save herself from all the fitnah and traveled with a mahram... More