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  • Profiting from ads on a Quran-teaching website

    I have read the Arabic Fatwa on your website where you have said that the Hanafis and Hanabalis have said that taking payment on teaching the Quran is not allowed and I agree with this view. Please keep this in mind when answering the following questions. My question is that if I make a website where I teach the Quran and Hadith and then place permitted.. More

  • A clear case of Waswasah (obsessive whisperings) about repentance

    I fear I might have accidently said something that Islam does not agree with, for the stuff that I don't remember but want to repent from what do I do? What about the mistakes I have made while describing or teaching others about Allah (I think I made a mistake while saying you can't give Allah new names by saying you can't give Allah the name "spinner.. More

  • Playing video games with non-Muslim civilizations as factions

    As salamu alaykum. If someone plays a strategy video game where they are required to choose a faction to play as eg romans, greek, chinese, americans, russians etc, would the person be sinning for playing as such factions as they were not Muslim civilisations? .. More

  • Wearing dental braces just to please the husband

    My husband is not pleased with my teeths and he wants the front teeths to be cut and that I wear braces pure only for beautification, is that permissible? What does islam say about being too honest, like your husband saying that he does not like dark skin colour (i am dark skinned) and that I walk weird etc. Sometimes he really says hurtful things and.. More

  • Keeping chess sets for purposes other than playing chess

    Assalamu alykum, I have studied a bit about whether chess is haram or not, and it seems like it falls in the doubtful category. As we should stay away from doubtful things, I quit playing chess. But I have some expensive chess sets in my possession. I thought about selling them at first, but later realized it would also be a bad thing to do as I would.. More

  • Not getting tested for a probable smoking-related disease

    AssalamuAlaikum ...my question is that i see many people smoke eating tobacco and some people have a doubt about a certain disease yet they dont get tested for it if such people die due to cancer or any ither deadly disease is it like suicide as they are risking upon their life is there a sin involved? .. More

  • Ruling on earning money through an iTunes app

    Assalamualaikum, I made the software which is the addin for iTunes. My app is to help find and delete duplicate items inside iTunes. Well, it can find anything from video, podcast, audio, lecture audio, etc but as iTunes is mainly a music player people mainly used my app to find duplicate songs. My copywriting on my website also stated word "music".. More

  • Computer games that involve elements of Shirk (polytheism)

    I want to play a game called Eve Online.. But in this game the story is something like Humans travel away from earth into space wormhole and found other planets to reside on or something.. they grew and become well off then the wormhole closed leaving them stranded, after wars and a lot of struggles, they have discovered a way to make humans virtually.. More

  • Children expiating for their mother's abortion on her behalf

    A Muslim woman died and she had aborted a child for she did not like to have more children, May Allaah Forgive her. Is there any expiation for her to be made by her children on her behalf, given that during her lifetime, she had the intention to make expiation, but was ignorant of how to do it? .. More

  • Making 3D cakes of animated cartoon figures

    Assalam o alaikum I am writing this email to have an answer to a question which is very important for me and a quick response would be highly appreciated. Me and my wife, we are running a small business from our home. We make customized designed cakes in various shapes. These are called “fondant cakes” and can be made in any shape and sometimes,.. More

  • Ruling on extracting platinum screws from the body of the deceased to make use of them

    What is the ruling on one who dies and in his body are expensive platinum screws? Is it permissible to extract these screws after his death? What is the ruling on him who takes such from the deceased in the grave when burying him? Is it permissible to restore them to his family or give them in charity?.. More

  • A question that reflects obsessive whispers regarding impurity

    If you blow your nose and there is a little blood in the snot does touching your nose (that nay have snot on it) in some way make that part impure even though there is not visual appearance of blood? Also, I asked a question before regarding an impurity due to touching a spot that has pus in it. You said it was waswas but you have also implied to me.. More

  • Ruling on exhuming graves for autopsies

    Is it permissible to exhume the bones of the deceased for science and research?.. More

  • A doctor must not contribute to abortion without a Sharee‘ah-Approved justification

    My sister is a gynecologist. Recently she did an abortion for a woman upon her request. It was her first time to do such an operation. However, she regretted and repented from doing so. Is this sufficient? What should she do? The fetus was four weeks old, and she got rid of the fee for the operation. May Allaah Reward you. .. More

  • Repentance, blood money and expiation upon whoever participates in abortion

    As-Salaamu ‘Alaykum Honorable Shaykh, my wife was pregnant in the fifth month. Medical examinations proved that the embryo was deformed, that his kidneys did not function and that his body included an inflated water sac. Physicians advised me to abort the embryo, which I actually did. What is the Sharee'ah ruling concerning that? Do I have to do.. More