Q: My question is regarding maintenance. My husband and I have two daughters and a son that is four months old. My husband's ex wife has dragged him to court for maintenance numerous times and he has told the court he can not afford that which she is asking but can pay a lesser amount. The councillor in charge of his case has now told him to get a better job and that I should find a job to so that I can support our children and he must then support his previous child. I need to know what Shari'ah says regarding the fact that my husband must solely see to that child and not the children he has with me. His ex-wife has also on numerous occasions told him why did he have another baby when he can't support her daughter. And that her daughter was there first so she deserves everything. I'm quite shocked and hurt that she would be so towards my kids when we don't ask her for anything. She is married to a sheik and is in purdah but belittles my children when ever they appear in court.

Q: Is it permissible for a person to combine two or more intentions on fasting: the first intention is fasting to please Allah or for any other reason. the second intention is to replace the missed obligatory fasts of a deceased person even if that deceased person when living did not intend to make up for the missed obligatory fasts?

Q: My last question is can you please show me hadith where it says a Muslim has been/can be forgiven for Shirk, and also from Quranic verses, JazakAllah? Not for a Non-Muslim but for a Muslim.

Q: If the prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) missed the Witr prayer, then I have read somewhere, he prayed four rakaats the following day. Can you shed some light on this please?

Q: If someone spills alcohol on shoes and the shoe is leather type material. I have wiped the area with a wet tissue. Will it be clean as the spot still remains on the shoe. If someone will wear the shoe will he be napaak?

Q: In water which is more than 10×10, if something taahir falls inside making the colour, taste and smell to change (e.g. Leaves fell in a large swimming pool), is that water taahir? Can it be used for wudhu and ghusl?

Q: I would like to know if when a person is on dialysis (haemodialysis) where your blood comes out goes into a machine gets filtered an returns to your body. Does this break your wudhu?

Q:

1) If a female falls pregnant as a result of Zina, then marries the father of the child when she is 3 months pregnant, is the child still illegitimate? and cannot inherit?

2) Also please advise regarding the inheritance of such children? I heard that there is a 33% portion of ones wealth that can be distributed to illegitimate children or to any other persons that are not allowed to inherit such as neighbours, friends, maid etc

Q: Are hanafi ladies supposed to cover the area between the throat and chin which normally remains exposed with a normal burqa? Normally some people have a double chin in that area. The Malaysian and Thailand girls of our Madrassah who were shafi'i would wear a special burqa to cover that part.

Q: I have an aged grandmother who has been diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. Unfortunately, her condition has deteriorated to such an extent that she forgets many things. Her salaah is one of the things that she is constantly confused about. She performs Salaah at incorrect times, says she read it when she hadn't read it and mixes up the salaahs. She also forgets to perform wudhu, sometimes performs it incorrectly, and at time makes tayamum. We try to correct her and guide her, but sometimes it is impossible. What is the correct ruling in this regard?