Being involved with a non-Muslim

Q: I am in quite a problem. I don't know how to put this but anyway I met this guy he is not muslim and I don't know what got in to me, but I dated him and things have gotten serious between us. I know its wrong for me to be dating and a non muslim too! But every time I try and stop our relationship, we always getting back together and he just won't let go. I don't know what to do anymore. My parents don't like him for me but my mother does like him but she tells me that she will never stand for it, she don't want a non muslim for me and even if he converts she won't accept it!

Backbiting

Q: If a person has committed backbiting against someone, and wants to make taubah from backbiting, and the person he was backbiting about does not know about it, does one have to go and tell the person I said this and that about you, make maaf, or can one beg forgiveness from Allah and do some good action and send the sawaab to the person?

Finding a spec of paint on one's face after Salaah

Q: I performed asr once, broke my wudoo, went downstairs and the banisters of the stairs have paint bits that come off onto your hands [not wet paint, its like white specks that come off] and then I made wudoo' and went back upstairs using banisters, prayed and when I finished after a short while of being in my room I looked in the mirror and noticed a small speck on my eyelid and this speck doesn't really take much to take off, even a rub does it and now what do I do? Do I assume my prayer's valid as it could have been either times, but most likely the speck would have come off in wudoo as you wash your face three times?

Working for an insurance company

Q: My question is as follows: My wife found a job at old mutual company and I told her it is haraam to work for an organisation which deals with interest, and she stopped. Now she found another job again with an insurance company, she is loading data on the computer. I don't have no info at all about the insurance company, is this place halaal or haraam for Muslims to work at?

Educating people

Q: One of our Muslim friends in college played holi with non muslims and the seniors of the college Muslims with long beards beat him mercilessly:

  1. Did they do the right thing or he should have been convinced with ease?
  2. If they did wrong by beating him, are they sinful and should seek apology from him?

Nikaah without a wali

Q: I made nikah with my husband. He is a Maliki . I do not folow any madhab. The imam who made a nikah implemented it without a wali according to the hanafi madhab. After I found out that there are sahih hadiths proving that there is no nikah without a wali. Also most of the madhabs don't accept the nikah without a wali. Please help me to clear the situation, should we make a new nikah or this one is valid?