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 the 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...
Jama'at Tabligh and the offering Prayers 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 beats 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 Ruling on 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 the 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)...
Ruling on kissing the hands and feet of the Sufi Shaykh
Question: Some followers of a certain Tariqah (Sufi order) kiss the hands and feet of their shaykh and put their foreheads against the shaykh’s hands...
The followers of Sufism stance on their shaykhs
Question: Some ignorant Sufis follow their Shaykhs in their error and immorality. The Sufi before his Shaykh is like a dead person before his washer...
Ruling on Prophet's songs
Question: Many Muslims celebrate the Prophethood of our Messenger (peace be upon him) with musical songs just as the Jews and Christians do i.e. they...
Ruling on setting up tents beside the graves
Question: What is your opinion - may your favor continue - on setting up tents beside the graves, where Qur’an reciters keep reciting the Qur’an...
Ruling on placing Henna in the Grave with the Deceased
Question: Is placing henna in the grave with the deceased part of the Islamic ceremony? If yes, what are its benefits? Answer: The Sunnah (whatever...
Ruling on placing book in the grave
Question: We have a strange practice and would like to know the religious ruling on it. Some people place a book they call ‘Al-Dawshan’ or...