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BEING ASKED BY MEN WHETHER I’m menstruating or not
Question Many sisters have asked: Answer And it is not necessary that you respond loudly with: ‘I am menstruating, hence I am not praying.’ In fact, we learn from the Sunnah that even a wife didn’t respond bluntly to her husband in this affair! She would either make her change in mood evident and say…
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CARRYING OUT A ‘KHATAM’ FOR A NEWBORN OR THE DECEASED
Question When a child is born or someone dies, our family sometimes does something called a ‘khatam’, where everyone in the family gets one Juz of the Quran and they have–for example–one week to complete it. Then we all come together and someone recites the last verses of Juz 30. My family says this way…
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Saying bismillah before undressing
Question Is it true that we should say Bismillah before exposing our awrah so that the Jinns don’t see us naked? Answer Saying Bismillah before exposing our awrah is proven from the Sunnah. The Prophet said: ‘The screen between the eyes of the Jinns and nakedness of the children of Adam when one of you…
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BLEACHING EYEBROWS
Question What is the ruling on a woman bleaching their eyebrows? The bleach does not harm the woman or remove the hair, it only lightens the color of the hair (essentially dying it). Answer If what is intended by bleaching is dyeing the eyebrows temporarily, then this is permissible. The only color prohibited to dye…
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BEING FORCED TO WORK BY PARENTS AS A MUSLIM WOMAN
Question A sole daughter is being forced by her parents to do a job, but this daughter is refusing to work, despite the job being in accordance to the Islamic guidelines. Answer
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Moderation in Allah’s Deen
عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ رضي الله عنهما، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم: لَو عَلِمْتُمْ قَدْرَ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ لَاتَّكَلْتُمْ وَمَا عَمِلْتُمْ مِنْ عَمَلٍ وَلَوْ عَلِمْتُمْ قَدْرَ غَضَبِهِ مَا نَفَعَكُمْ شَيْءٌ Ibn Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Were you to have an idea about the vastness of Allah’s mercy, you’d sit down…
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The Hadith’s subject should be given precedence over logic and intellect
عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أُنَيْسٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَوْمًا: «مَنْ لِي مِنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ نُبَيْحٍ رَجُلٍ مِنْ هُذَيْلٍ؟» ، وَهُوَ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِعَرَفَةَ، قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ: فَقُلْتُ: أَنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ انْعَتْهُ لِي، فَقَالَ: «لَوْ رَأَيْتَهُ هِبْتَهُ» ، فَقُلْتُ: وَالَّذِي أَكْرَمَكَ مَا هِبْتُ شَيْئًا قَطُّ، فَخَرَجْتُ حَتَّى لَقِيتُهُ بِجِبَالِ عَرَفَةَ قَبْلَ…
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The Vastness Of Allah’s Mercy And Anger And Its Demands
Ibn Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Were you to have an idea about the vastness of Allah’s mercy, you’d sit down relying upon Allah and wouldn’t engage in any act. And were you to have an idea about the vastness of Allah’s anger, you’d believe that no good deed of yours will…
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Public Sins & Husn Adh-Dhan
When people publicly sin, some people have this idea that they may have repented, and even if you didn’t know they repented, you must remain silent and have Husn Adh-Dhann. This is wrong, and Allah mentioned 5 reasons for this in 5 Verses of that Qur’an; that merely repenting isn’t sufficient to absolve a person…