QUESTION: Is saying yarhamuk Allah quietly sufficient or must the person who sneezed and praised Allah to hear it

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Other | 0 Comments
19 Oct

ANSWER: He must hear it.

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QUESTION: Is it permissible answering the call of nature while athaan is being given?

Other | 0 Comments
15 Oct

ANSWER: No problem. 

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Can you forgive me for anything I said behind your back

Other
28 Sep

ANSWER: No, I can’t justify people backbiting and sinning and say that this is ok. 

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QUESTION: Is it considered lying when we talk with our friend and when we exaggerate numbers in an ordinary speech? For example when we say: “I’ve seen that million times in my life” but in reality we might have seen it only 50 times or so…

Other | 0 Comments
16 Sep

ANSWER: No problem in this as such a number is only metaphorical. 

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QUESTION: How can I study 10 chapters in a day?

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12 Sep

ANSWER: By studying 10 chapters! 

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Heard that it’s haram to greet with gesture(hand/finger).So, it is haram to wave the hand as a greeting? How about waving and smiling as a greeting? What about greeting someone while waving and saying hi/hello?What about the world leaders waving hands to public/media in meeting or seminars?

Manners, Other
26 Aug

ANSWER: This is what Ibn Allah qayyem said as this was at his time part of the forms of greeting by the disbelievers. Nowadays, this is mainly common among the Muslims and it seems to be ok providing it is with mahrams or the same gender.

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Queen elizabeth II, is said to be descendant of prophet muhammad and she is from lineage of prophet muhammad. How true is that?

Other
24 Aug

ANSWER: This is baseless and ridiculous! Even if this is true, this has no benefit at all as Abu Lahab was the paternal uncle of the prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam and he is in hellfire for eternity.

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Sheikh I always spend money on people (buy them juice, sweets, sometimes they need something and I buy it for them and when they give money I refuse), am I musrif?!

Character and Morals, Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Other
22 Aug

ANSWER: No. No problem in spending on people even if they are rich. This is part of a person being generous. It’s sunnah to exchange gifts.

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I am a Muslim and I saw a Hindu symbol “Om” in sky written with clouds with my eyes how is this possible???

Other, Religions
15 Aug

ANSWER: The same way clouds can form together making other pictures such as a tree or donkey. This has no significance.

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Sheikh people say inna lillahi wa inna ilahi raziun when someone passes away or we can say when we lost something, when gas went off etc?

Other, Supplications
15 Aug

ANSWER: You can say this for any calamity.

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