Q: Please clarify this matter for us:
1. In the case where a lady gets very sick during pregnancy, and is vomiting and unable to eat properly etc. for months, and hence needs a gap between pregnancies to recover physically and mentally, will it be permissible to utilise the loop as a contraceptive?
2. For normal spacing out of children, i.e. a lady doesn't get very sick or anything but just to space the children out, will using the loop be permissible?
Q: I have a few questions regarding a musafir.
1. If a musafir joins the jamaat in the masjid, does he have to perform the full salaah? For example does he have to read the full 10 rakaats of Zohr or just the 4 Fardh that was read in jamaat?
2. Is it better to read the salaah in jamaat in the musjid or on my own, if I don't know any other musaafirs to make jamaat with?
3. Is it better to read qasr salaah or the full salaah when traveling, if I am reading alone?
Q: An old school friend that does not practice deen (I don‘t exactly know his belief) and his girlfriend (I think she might be Christian since we are in Germany and she’s German) went to another country for holidays.
Now they want me to pick them up from the airport and bring them to their home where they live together. Since I don‘t want to be sinful I would like to know if it was haram for me to transport these people.
I read that transporting people to certain places as a taxi driver is makruh tanzihi in the Hanafi madhab since one is only indirectly assisting in sin. However, I am not a taxi driver and I don‘t want to make assumptions.
Am I sinful for transporting non married couples to their home?
Q: I have recently moved into an area that has a musallah, but not a masjid. The musallah is 1.1 km from my house and the nearest masjid is 3.8km.
1. Are the etiquettes and sunan of a masjid applicable to a musallah i.e. should one recite the duas for entering and leaving a masjid, make niyah for itikaaf, enter with the right foot etc.
2. Will one accrue the same reward for performing salaah in a musallah as one would in a masjid?
3. If not, is it advisable to perform salaah in the musallah or make the extra effort to attend the masjid?
Any other additional information regarding the differences between a masjid and musallah will be greatly appreciated insha-Allah.
Q: I want to buy a home at my native place but I haven't enough money to buy it, so can I apply for the home loan. I already tried to halal sources to raise funds for the same but I only collected 10 lakh, and the home price is 28.5 lakh.
I know interest is haram in Islam. Also suggest me the best way to achieve it.
Q: A Muslim company confirmed the price of a product with me at R1800. They said stock will come in a few months.
A few months later the product comes and they say I must pay R2200. I said that you confirmed the price at R1800. The company says that price was then, and now it changed because of USD exchange rate. But previously he confirmed R1800 and never mention USD exchange rate.
I waited months to buy it from them and did not inquire elsewhere because they confirmed the price and my order at R1800.
Please advise:
(1) Is their action as above permissible?
(2) If permissible, is it in conformity with Islamic values? I am annoyed because I waited to buy it from them specifically at their confirmed price. I could have bought it elsewhere all these months.
Q: A person told me that ilham and kashf are fake as in Sahih Al-Bukhari 6990 the prophet states nothing is left of prophethood except dreams. Please refute this.
Q: I have many health problems including back pain, incontinence, tiredness, mentally and physically weak, etc. I spend most of the time resting on the bed. Doing wudhu and praying 5 times is very difficult for me. I feel unwell most of the time, doing wudu, praying salah take very long time and I become tired and stressed out.
I don't know any Muslim doctor to ask this and no one else can help me do wudu. Because my illnesses like back pain, tiredness go worse by wudu and praying, can I do tayammum instead of wudu? And pray salah sitting? I tried doing tayammum and pray sitting but still I struggle.
Q: What is the ruling on adding the word وبحمده to the tasbeeh of ruku' and sujood? Example: سبحان ربي العظيم وبحمده
I have seen some hadiths mention it, but not sure what the Hanafi madhab says regarding it.
Q: Is it permissible to converse with Rasulullah ﷺ, share one's thoughts, etc at the Rawdah Mubarak, considering that Nabi ﷺ is hayaat (alive) and will be able to hear one from that vicinity or is it only restricted to salaam and request for intercession?