Reading Time: < 1 minuteQuestion (Q-08): What are the signs of a person becoming adolescent (bāligh)? Are there any other signs of becoming (bāligh) adolescent? Answer: Answer with the Help of the Almighty King There are three signs for the adolescence (bulūgh) of a boy – wet dream (ihtilām), impregnating a female and discharge of semen. There are also ..
Reading Time: 2 minutesQuestion (Q-07): If a person is wearing a catheter (the urine still flows but the bag stops urine from reaching the ground or the clothes), can he enter a Masjid in this state? Answer: With the Name of the Almighty Answer with the help of the Almighty King and Bestower: It is necessary to protect ..
Reading Time: 2 minutesQuestion (Q-06): Is it permissible for a woman to perform Hajj on behalf of a male who has passed away without performing Hajj or who is severely ill and unable to perform Hajj? Answer: In the Name of the Almighty It is permissible for a woman to perform Al Hajj Al Badl (Hajj on behalf ..
Reading Time: < 1 minuteQuestion (Q-05): Is the belly button included in the area that has to be covered by men? Answer: Answer with the Help of the Almighty The belly button itself is not part of Al ‘Awrah. It is stated in Bahār e Sharī’at, “The area between the navel and the knees is ‘Awrah (place to be ..
Reading Time: < 1 minuteQuestion (Q-04): What is the ruling in relation to reciting Qunūt prayer aloud during the congregation of Witr in Ramadhān? Answer: It is against the Sunnah for an Imām, his follower and similarly a person who is praying Salāh alone to recite Qunūt (supplication) aloud. It is stated in Durr ul Mukhtār; مخافتا علي الأصح ..
Reading Time: 2 minutesQuestion (Q-03): Is it permissible for institutes who are given Zakāh to keep the Zakāh money saved for many years without having made a poor person owner of the money through Hīlah Shar’iyyah? Answer: Zakāh is in essence the right of the poor people. The permission to utilise Zakāh to fund religious institutes is only ..
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion (Q-02): If somebody pays my Zakah for me using their money, will my obligation be fulfilled? 1. Zakah was necessary upon Zaid. Bakr told him that he will pay the Zakah on Zaid’s behalf and then Bakr paid Zaid’s Zakah using his own money rather than Zaid’s. Will Zaid’s Zakah be valid? 2. In ..
Reading Time: 2 minutesQuestion (Q-01):My younger sister is a nurse and had been allocated to work on the Covid-19 ward for the next 3 months. She is asking whether it is permissible to defer fasting in Ramadhan when she works and to keep them later in the year? She will be working 12 hour shifts and with all ..