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?
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?
Q: What will happen to Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam's) parents in the akhirah?
Q: Please advice me what to read for protection against enemies at work who are trying to harm me?
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?
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:
Q: Is it permissible to give a wedding ring to your wife on your wedding day?
Q: Is it permissible to give presents to non-Muslim co-workers a few days before or after Christmas with the intention that one is giving the present as an Islamic display of good character?
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?
Q: I want to start a website where people can download books for free. Normally, we download books from other websites and upload on our website. People come and download the books. My questions are:
1. Is it permissible to make books available for free download without the permission of the authors?
2. Downloading books from others and making soft copies of your own seems wrong. Is it a sin?
3. Is the money made from such a business haraam?