Ruling on placing the hand on the Mushaf while swearing
Question: In many cases, a man swears by placing his hand on the Mushaf, is this right or is it enough to swear by Allah...
Ruling on swearing by Al-Bukhari's Book of Hadith
Question: In our country, people are used to swearing by Al-Bukhari’s Book of Hadith. If a person loses hope in taking their right from their...
Ruling on sleeping on the ground for forty days as mourning over the dead
Question: What is the Islamic method for holding a Ma’tam (mourning assembly)? In the Sudanese rural areas, most relatives and neighbors of the dead person...
Ruling on swearing by Allah and His Messenger
Question: Is it permissible to swear by Allah and His Messenger? Answer: It is impermissible to do so, for the Messenger of Allah (peace be...
Ruling on slaughtering sheep for the deceased
Question: Here in Ouargla, when someone dies, his family slaughters one of their sheep on the next day. What is the ruling on this? Does...
Ruling on three pieces of clay for the dead
Question: When a person dies, some people in our village bring three pieces of clay. They make a sphere out of every piece of clay...
Ruling on Al-Uns Salah
Question: What is the authenticity of Al-Uns Salah (prayer)? It is performed after Maghrib (Sunset Prayer) on the day of burying the deceased. Did the...
Ruling on a wife of the deceased wears a white dress and does not take a bath
Question: In Algeria when a man dies, his wife wears a white dress and does not take a bath or change her clothes until the...
Ruling on relatives of the deceased sitting beside the grave
Question: What is the ruling on a relative of a dead person sitting beside the grave when people leave after the burial for no more...
Ruling on Adhan after burying the dead in the grave
Question: In Bangladesh, we call the Adhan after burying the dead in the grave. Scholars differed on this issue; some of them permit it while...
Why are the Sufis interested in pronouncing the name of Allah rather than referring to His Attributes
Question: Why are the Sufis interested in pronouncing the name of Allah rather than referring to His Attributes? Why do Muslims not mention Allah’s Name...
What is Sufism
Question: What is Sufism? Does it pose a danger to one’s Islam? What is the ruling on keeping company with Sufis? Answer: In general, Sufism...
The pledge of Sufis
Question: I was under age when I went to one of the shaykhs of the Sufi sects. I said to him: I want to join...
Tablighi Jama'at and offering Salah in Masjids containing graves
Question: M.’A. From America says: I traveled with Jama’at Tabligh to India and Pakistan. We used to gather and pray in Masjids (mosques) that have...
Sufis who beat themselves with skewers
Question: I know some people who call themselves shaykhs but they stab themselves with skewers etc. And ascribe fictitious things to Al-Rifa’i. What is the...
Sufi superstitions
Question: The mentioned Imam says that one day Safi Al-Din ibn Ahmad passed along a road in that city and found a rock. He divided...
Status of the Sufi orders in Islam
Question: I am forwarding to you this message that was sent to me by a woman who says her husband, Mohamed Al-Faytury Hamudah, follows a...
The pledge taken from a Sufi Shaykh
Question: What is the ruling of Islam on the pledge that we make to the shaykh of a Tariqah (Sufi order)? Will we be considered...
Origin and the creeds of Sufism
Question: I ask your eminence to reply to us in short about Sufism and Sufis; what is Sufism, their ‘Aqidah (creed) and what is the...
Misguidance of all Sufis
Question: I read in a book entitled “Hadhihi Al-Sufiyyah (This is Sufism)” that Sufism is a deviant Islamic sect that departs from Islamic ‘Aqidah (creed)...