Miscellaneous

Q: What do we do if my brother in law invited us for his wife's birthday. We already told them that we do not celebrate birthdays. His wife even asked us for a birthday gift. We asked if we could just do dinner and not call it a birthday party. I told my husband that I'm not going, so he said that I am being more bad to them. So what do you advise?

Q: Did the Holy Prophet's (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) blessed wives live in separate houses? Did the Holy Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) make the houses for them (i.e. spent his own money for the houses)?

Q: Please give me a link or reference of Quran Majeed app or website with translation and tafseer for mobile.

Also, please give an app or website on how to give Azaan and perform Namaaz correctly because we can't trust everything on the internet.

Q: Did Nabi (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) hate those kuffar (e.g. Abu Jahal) who were against Muslims?

Q: I have a Muslim worker who is addicted to mandrax. Daily after work he must smoke. Sometimes he works late and the place where he needs to buy the tablets (drugs) is not safe so he asks me to take him there so that he can go in and buy it and I must drop him home. If I don’t take him, he will walk down and it’s not safe. I have been doing that but it’s bothering my mind, am I not a party to the sin? What should I do? Even though by my not taking him he won’t stop. 

Q: If someone did a radio play for university coursework and their character in the script said an utterance of shirk, for example if they said "christ" and they recorded this, does that mean the sin is there and even if I deleted the recordings but there might be a file somewhere.

I knew it was wrong but I thought because its a character and I'm speaking the lines of that so it doesn't matter too much. Then I remembered how bad it was and the fact that it was part of the radio play. Now I'm trying to delete the recordings and finding out if it's anywhere else on my laptop. I deleted them and edited it out of the radio play but I am still stressed. Its because its recorded and I feel like if the cache or bit of the recording is still in the computer somewhere then is it still shirk?

Q: If a father says to his son "if it's true that you committed what I suspect you, May Allah curse you" and surely the son committed what his father suspected him (Though the father has confidence his son will never do that due to his (son's) good character). Now:

1. What is the ruling on that curse?

2. Is the son still a Muslim?

3. Can the son, despite being cursed pave his way to paradise?

4. If surely Allah cursed a person, he distanced him from his mercy, how could that son draw nearer to Allah's mercy.

5. The father is quite happy with the son as I write this, because he obeys whatever he asks him to do, not knowing the son is cursed by him. What is your advice to the son?

Q: Please expand on the subject of superstitious beliefs in Islam. E.g. whistling in the house or cutting paper and rocking. Apart from the many other common household beliefs that are becoming a daily problem. 

Q: Where do the eyebrows start and end for male?

Q: In December 2015 I was in the bathroom taking a shower and I didn't lock the door and then I was done taking a shower and came out of the bathtub to put my clothes on when suddenly one of my little brothers who was in his mid twenties opens up the bathroom door and sees me naked and I was feeling so shameful so I quickly closed the door shut... Also I had this planned in my head that I vowed I would never show any man my body except for my spouse that I do nikaah with... So basically I was saving myself for my husband! The upper portion of my body still feels kind of stiff after he saw me naked and uncomfortable too and I sort of feel like I've lost my jannah... I mean don't you think it is unlawful to see your older sister's naked body and also it is taking the rights of her away... Basically he sent me a waswasa to keep the door unlocked before satan enters... so it looks more like he planned on peeking in... What should I do?