Doubts

Q: I love Allah and I believe in Him and His oneness with my whole heart. But for some days many bad thoughts are coming now and then and it's making me mad. What should I do to permanently get rid of it and how to protect my iman and increase iman and taqwa? Please make dua for me.

Sunnah method of a nikaah

Q: What is the right way and the way of Allah's pleasure to a marriage ceremony? My sister got married in a mosque and we fed the closest family members. Even our closest neighbours weren't invited and they are hurt by it. Is it the saheeh way?

Keeping an atheist friend

Q: I have a friend who calls herself atheist but she tell us to make dua for her sick mother. She believes that dajjal exists. She never tells anything against Islam. Only once I mentioned her something that time she told something. My question should I continue friendship with her. How do I give her dawah?

Making masah on leather shoes

Q: As if we wear leather socks so we do not need to wash our feets on every wadhu, masah is enough to complete the wadhu? So I want to know likely as if we wear cotton socks an on it we normally wear leather shoes so is it allowed that we do only masah like we do on leather socks, will the wadhu be valid?

Doing charitable work in the name of any person besides Allah Ta'ala

Q: Some members in our relatives give food in the name of others (instead of Allah). They tell that the reward of this charity goes to a particular person soul, also some say that we can give food, clothes etc... in the name of prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam). Is it really true? Some give food after a death of a man (within 3 days and 40 days), some read Quran for their souls to be rewarded, is all of these are permissible? Could you please explain me.

Men wearing rings

Q: Recently, I heard in a sermon that it is not permissible for us, Muslims to wear rings made of stone or some other material or taweez with the belief that it will avoid harm and it will give us the blessings and barakah. In my locality most of the imams follow the trend of wearing such rings or taweez. Is it permissible for me to do namaz behind them?

Qadha of Esha Salaah if a woman's period ends before fajr

Q:

1. A woman is on her period. She goes to sleep at night but when she wakes up at fajr time, she realises that she must have become taahir during the night since there is no trace of blood. Does she have to make qadaa of the isha prayers? 

2. Would it have been necessary for her to set her alarm clock to wake her up before the end of isha time/start of fajr time, to check whether the period had finished at night, in which case she would avoid it becoming qada?

Silhouettes and emoticons

Q:

1. Are silhouettes of people (pictures of peopled in black, without the face having nose, eyes, etc.) considered tasaweer and haraam?

2. Similarly, are emoticons that are made up of symbols like =, (), :, etc. as compared to emoticons that are obviously tasaweer also considered haraam?