Voting

Q: What does the verse of the Quran at 4:85 mean? One explanation I read says that if we vote for a candidate in election and he indulges in anti Islamic activities then we are also responsible before Allah.

Hadith Question

Q: I just wanted to know if this hadeeth is authentic. Melon - Kharbuza / Tarbooz - The Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: ‘None of your women who are pregnant and eat of water melon will fail to produce offspring that is good in countenance".

Sea creatures

Q: Allah Says in The Qur'an that all creatures of the sea are lawful. But, there is a general belief among Indian Muslims that we Muslims cannot eat sharks, crabs, eels, barracuda, octopus, squid and lobsters etc. among sea creatures. Please clarify whether we can eat all creatures of the sea. Are there any exceptions?

Giving zakaat to children

Q: Islam believes that all children are born pure and in Islam and if they die before they attain puberty, they go to Jannah, even if they are born of not yet Muslim parents. This being so, are these children eligible to receive our Zakaah, Sadaqa ul Fitrah and Zakaah ul Fitrah money?

Jummah Khutbah

Q:

  1. In the Jumma Khutbah is it Sunnah to recite Taawwuz and Tasmiya before reciting the verse of the Quran?
  2. In the Jumma Khutbah when reciting the verse of the Quran is it Sunnah to recite the verse of the Quran with Tajweed (with gunna and mad etc)?
  3. When reciting the Arabic Khutbah in Jumma should the Arabic be recited with Tajweed and is it Sunnah to recite the Arabic with Tajweed?

Sunnis and Shias

Q:

  1. From where the term sunni and shia came and why?
  2. Do Shias believe in the same Quran as Sunnis believe and in Bukhari , Muslim or they have other hadith books?
  3. Can we consider the both same in Touheed?

Fask (Cancellation) of the marriage

Q: I have been married since 2008. During my first year of marriage, my husband hit me, swore me, smashed the wind-screen of my car and used drugs. I went back home for nine months trying to get my talaaqs from the jamiatul-ulema. They said we should reconcile. We did reconcile and I fell pregnant. My husband started using drugs and got hectic, straight after I gave birth, he went to rehab. When he came out, we went for counselling and soon afterwards, I suspected he was using, but he said it was only weed. I fell pregnant again but had a  miscarriage. I refused to go back unless he signs a conditional talaaq valid for six months. In that six months he broke two of the conditions. We then went for marital counselling. He still abuses me mentally and verbally. He doesn't physically abuse me as bad as before. He
just pushes and pulls here and there. I got a faskh granted on this basis from an Imaam who is an Islamic minister at a certain center and began sitting my iddat. Now he says that he has found out from Ulama' that my faskh is not valid. Is my fasgh valid and who can issue a fasgh? I do not want to go back.

Evil eye

Q: Can you please explain the following hadith in detail:

أخرج مسلم وأحمد والترمذي وصححه عن ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال : " العين حق ولو كان شيء سابق القدر لسبقته العين ، وإذا استغسلتم فاغسلوا " 
صححه الألباني في السلسلة الصحيحة.