Q: I am considering one of the following names for a baby girl:

• Nuha
• Taskeen
• Zakiyah
• Zarifah
• Zakirah

Can you please give me the meanings of the above names and comment as to their suitability.

Q: Please could you advise on the meaning of Amani and the correct spelling.

Q: Our Hindu neighbour makes and sells papads, sweetmeats and other savouries. It is unlikely that haraam ingredients would be utilised. Can Muslims buy these items or not? As one is never certain what ingredients have been used.

Q: What is the fist length of the beard? Is there any measurement as in inches or centimeters?

Q: I was fasting one day in Ramadan and I didn't know that if one gargles and water goes down one's throat then the fast is invalid. So one day I was performing ghusl and I gargled 3 times and I may have accidentally swallowed some water. Is my fast invalid?

Q: I am 32 years old and I am married with 2 kids. My father in law and mother in law are divorced. After the divorce my  father in law remarried. His new wife was always kind and caring towards myself and my kids. Now that my father in laws wife and me get along, my own mother in law has an issue about it and she hates that my father in law's wife is a good person. She doesn't want myself and my kids to be good with her. I want to know if its wrong to be good with her or if its right to listen to my mother in law?

Q: I am single with a 10 month old baby from a Pakistani. We live together but I don't want to get married because he is already married. I assisted him with his permit which allowed him to travel to Pakistan and he has now impregnated his wife. I asked him to leave as I no longer wish to be in a relationship and want to live my life as a pure Muslim woman. Is this wrong?

Q: What is the ruling if the wife stays with her in laws in the same house, sharing all spaces like the kitchen, bathroom etc? Are the in laws allowed to use her bedroom as they wish? If she is not there can they sleep in the room and let other people in the room? The wife's possessions are still in the room and she is not informed of the people using it.

Q: I wanted to ask that If I recite surah al alaq in the day without reading it from the Quran, do I have to do sajdah?

Q: If somebody says to his wife"If you don't listen to me then divorce 2 times" If she does listen to him after that, does the talaaq occur or not? If she does not listen to him then does 1 or 2 talaaqs take place?