What is the ruling on concluding letters and petitions with the phrase “May you last forever”? Answer: It is a reprehensible act, for immortality belongs to Allah...
Dhul-Hijjah 26, 1445 // Jul 02, 2024A bottled water company wrote a strange sentence on a roadside advertising billboard. It says: “There are still some gifts granted by nature in our world,” and beside...
Dhul-Hijjah 26, 1445 // Jul 02, 2024Is the religion one is born into the true one? Answer: Every human is born in a state of fitrah (divinely endowed natural disposition of monotheism/Islam). The...
Dhul-Hijjah 26, 1445 // Jul 02, 2024Scholars hold different opinions concerning Bid‘ah (innovation in religion); some of them say that there is a good Bid‘ah and a bad one. Is this true? Answer:...
Dhul-Hijjah 26, 1445 // Jul 02, 2024What is the ruling on having multiple Islamic groups? If I am convinced with the ideas of a certain group which is Al-Jama’ah Al-Islamiyyah, is it permissible to...
Dhul-Hijjah 25, 1445 // Jul 01, 2024Question : What is the ruling on a man who claims that he saw, while in a state of wakefulness, the Prophet (peace be upon him), virgin Maryam (Mary,...
Dhul-Hijjah 25, 1445 // Jul 01, 2024What is the ruling on reciting the Surah of Ya-Sin over the dead, with the intention of dedicating the reward to them? Is that permissible? If it is,...
Dhul-Hijjah 25, 1445 // Jul 01, 2024In Morocco, most of the memorizers of the Qur’an say supplications in behalf of some people in return for a sum of money. They may also recite the...
Dhul-Hijjah 24, 1445 // Jun 30, 2024What is the ruling on taking money in return for reciting the Qur’an? Is there a special event that falls due on the fortieth day or one year...
Dhul-Hijjah 24, 1445 // Jun 30, 2024Question How can I deal with the Batiniyyin1 and ahlul-bid’ah 2 who come to live in our country? It may...
Dhul-Hijjah 22, 1445 // Jun 28, 2024What is the difference between repentance and praying for forgiveness? Answer: Repentance is regret for what has passed, giving it up, and resolving not to go back...
Muharram 11, 1445 // Jul 29, 2023What is the ruling on praying behind an imam from the bareilawi sect, who believes that the Prophet ﷺ is alive and present and can see us? Answer: If...
Muharram 10, 1445 AH // Jul 28, 2023If a woman advises her negligent husband to do his prayers in the mosque or she expresses anger with regard to that, is she guilty of sin, because...
Muharram 09, 1445 AH // Jul 27, 2023They are the followers of Hasan Al-Banna. There are several points to be noted about their methodology, the most important of which are the following: They show a lack...
Muharram 07, 1445 // Jul 25, 2023There are some who say that the groups which we are commanded to shun in the hadith of Hudhayfah are the Islamic groups such as the Salafis, the...
Muharram 07, 1445 // Jul 25, 2023Are these the times which are referred to in the hadith of the Messenger ﷺ, according to which when one of the Sahabah asked him, “What should I...
Muharram 06, 1445 AH // Jul 24, 2023Jama’at at-Tabligh, for example, say: “We want to follow the methodology of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah.” However some of them fall into error and then say: “How can you...
Muharram 05, 1445 // Jul 23, 2023A Mushrik (one who associates others with Allah) performed Hajj and a long time after their return from Hajj, Allah guided them to the sound ‘Aqidah (creed) and...
Muharram 4, 1445 // Jul 22, 2023What is the ruling on a person changing their name like most of the Indonesian pilgrims do? Indonesians are used to changing their names when they go to...
Muharram 04, 1445 // Jul 22, 2023During the month of Muharram, women go to the house of a newly married woman and bring water with them. They wear thick clothes to protect themselves against...
Muharram 4, 1445 AH // Jul 22, 2023