Q: About 2 years ago a purchased a cellphone from a store that offers an extra warranty which I had taken out that says they will provide you with a new phone if something happens. The warranty covers accidental water damage and screen cracks etc. There is some terms and conditions that basically say that if it was intentional/deliberate then that would not be covered. One day whilst using the phone I thought some dirt/napaak might have gotten onto the phone, so i took some water in my hands and put it over the phone. Regrettably the phone had gotten water damaged and I had taken it in to the store to get it fixed/exchanged. When I took it in to the store, they did not ask how or when it happen but rather took my personal details and a week later gave me a replacement phone. Of course, my main intention was to just clean the phone, but unfortunately it had gotten damaged.

1. Is the replacement phone they gave me ok for me to use? I ask since the phone had broken through my own wrong doing even though not deliberate and they did not ask anything about it

2. Did any of the work i did for work purposes on the phone become wrong for me to do?

3. Coincidentally after a couple of months the replacement phone they had given me fell in the rain and yet again I went to them. This time they asked how it happened etc and I explained to them it fell in the rain and they gave me another replacement phone again. Is this phone also OK for me to use since the first one (not original, first replacement) had to be given in?

4. Can I sell this second replacement phone and use the money from it?

Q: I want to know husband and wife huqooq in Islam.

Q: When my father proposed to my mother, he dedicated Surah Al-Imran, which he memorized off heart, as her “Mahr” (dowry). And when my husband proposed to me, my father told him that he would have to memorize a Surah of the Quran as my mahr. The wedding will not go on unless I’ve received my mahr I was asked to pick one of the surahs. I chose Surah Al-Noor. For all the laws that Surah contained within it and for the fact that it seemed hard to memorize on my behalf. And before our wedding day; aside of being busy preparing for our “Newly wedded Nest”, the Quran wouldn’t leave my husband’s hand an entire month as he was memorizing the Surah. A few day before our wedding day, my husband came to recite to my father the Surah which he had completed. My father told him every time you make a mistake, you would have to start from the beginning all over again. My husband began reciting Surah Al-Noor with his calm/gentle voice in such a “beautiful” scene which I will never forget. My mother and I would look at one another and would smile awaiting my husband to make a mistake so he would have to start all over again and by that increase my “Reward”. But my husband – May Allah bless him – had memorized the Surah off heart and didn’t even forget one single verse of it. Once he finished my father hugged him and said to him: “Today I shall marry my daughter to you, for you have fulfilled her mahr and your pledge to me..” He didn’t pay me a financial mahr, and we didn’t buy gold worth tens of thousands. He sufficed me with Allah’s words as an oath/contract between us.

Regarding the story above, is this type of mahr accepted in Islam?

Q: Recently my family did my marriage and my husband is too much taller and fat compare to me. When I'm having sex with him I'm suffering from too much pain. I can't explain you. So just I want to known is it compulsory to have sex with him every day or for few month I can have sex with him once in a week. Even before marriage no one ask me about this boy just they did my marriage with this man. So please can you tell me is it compulsory to have sex with him every day or I can have sex with him once in a week?

Q:

1. Which invitation is best in Islam for wedding- oral or written?

2. Is there a hadith that nikaah should be done after asr prayer?

3. Is it allowed in Islam to have separate function called Henna (mehndi) on previous day of nikaah for girls?

4. Can a wealthy man spend more on walima which will be done subsequent to the day of nikaah?

5. Is it permissible in Islam for a man and woman to suck or lick private parts of each other after nikaah?

Q: A woman has 2 brothers, 1 sister, nephews and nieces. No parents, no husband, no children. How is her estate divided?

Q: A few minutes before the scheduled time of Janazah Salaah at the cemetery, the face of the deceased male is opened. A line is formed and people file past to see the face one last time. Is this permissible or not?

Q: I am an electrical engineer working in a private company but my project is going to end very soon my job is insecure. I am also govt. Regt. A class Contractor of electrical works. Means I am eligible to take contracts but the problem is I have to give bribe to government officers 1 sometime for getting tender 2 every time for getting my bills passed (getting money after contract completed). Please tell me is it allowed in this condition when giving bribe is necessary and there is no other way of getting our right for both conditions.

Q: After marriage I realized the duty for parents and the position of amma in Islam. Before marriage and in my adolescent I was careless about giving respect to them and being obedient to them. But now I'm suffering from deep regret. I have told them sorry several times and try to make them happy as much as possible. But Now I left my home to my husband . I live in a different city from my parents. So it is too difficult to take care for them. I can only talk regularly, give them gifts sometimes. But nothing else. I have husband, mother in-law, father in-law, sister in-law and three brother in-laws. As a married girl, if I want to do my duty properly to my husband and in law's house, I can do almost nothing to my parents. But how can I get rid from this sin which have I done in my unmarried life to my parents.

Q: Is the following true?

The forgotten Sunnah

It is Sunnah for one to burn Lobaan, Incense sticks and other fragrances. There are many virtues of burning Bakhoor and other fragrances mentioned in the Hadeeth. Hadhrat Ibn Umar (r.a) used to burn pure Oudh and camphor mixed with Oudhas incense fragrance. He said “Likewise, Rasullullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) used to burn incense.” (Saheeh Muslim, Hadeeth #2254) Hadhrat Umm Qais Bint Mihsan(r.a) narrates that “I heard Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihi waSallam) saying, "Treat with the Indian incense, for it has healing for seven diseases; it is to be sniffed by one having throat trouble, and to be put into one side of the mouth of one suffering from pleurisy.” (Saheeh al-Bukhari, Hadeeth # 5368, Kitab al-Tibb)