Q: I am a very doubtful person and I might be suffering from OCD but I am trying to recover slowly. Sometimes when I have to go somewhere at night like to a dinner with my parents I make wudu before I start getting ready so I can be sure to pray maghrib before I leave but when I don't get ready I will doubt if I my wudu has broken or not because I get discharge all the time but I have heard that this doesn't require wudu, but discharge when one thinks of something inappropriate does require wudu. With OCD I can't control thoughts that come into my head so I am trying to learn to just let them pass and not effect me because the more I try to get rid of bad thoughts the more they come. So I am trying to just let them pass. But when I think that did my wudu break, I say no then I am like did I get any bad thoughts and that brings bad thoughts into my mind. I can't control it. They will pass if I don't pay attention to them but if I obsess over it then it gets very stressful for me and I start to panic so I can never keep my wudu and always have to do it again. because a thought will come into my head and I can't control it. What do I do in this case because there is never enough time to go do wudu again because everyone is getting ready to leave so I either have to read namaz when I get home or make everyone upset because they have to wait for me and this happens all the time. I can never keep my wudu for longer than a duration of a namaz and sometimes even then I will get bad thoughts but I ignore those or else I would never be able to finish a single namaz. What do I do in this case do I always do wudu or can I just keep it as long as I haven't passed gas or went to the bathroom because this causes me a lot of hardship as I always have to renew my wudu before namaaz. Also if my zuhr got delayed because I was out and I prayed it as soon as I could at home and one hour later it was asr, do I do wudu again if the thoughts come because during a situation like this it becomes very hard to make wudu when I just did it an hour ago. Please give me advice on what I should do. I can't just stop the thoughts because me trying to do that just makes it worse. So i'm slowly trying to lean to lessen them as my OCD gets better. Please if you could offer some advice.

Q: If I join Zuhr Salaah behind the Imaam after 3 rakaats, what is the correct procedure to join and complete the Salaah? What should I recite after standing up after the Imaam has made salaam? Surah Fatiha only ? Surah Fatiha and a Surah?

Q: A person has a bad habit of playing with his beard constantly. Sometimes biting the hair also.

1) Is this considered something disliked in shariah?

2) How can he stop this bad habit

Q: Is it correct for a non Aalim to begin a bayaan with a khutbah quoting Quran and hadith?

Q: Is claiming from the road accident fund (RAF) permissible?

Q: I really love reading your lectures and I am a recent convert. Allah has made me and gave me various talents and I thank him for his gifts. Few of the talents are painting, singing and writing. In short, I love arts. Why will Allah give me such talents and then tell me not to exercise them since all the three things I mentioned above is Haram. By music, I mean classical music and not the modern music. Please clear my doubt.

Q: I have been in a relationship with a person since 4 years. Since last 1 year he has made my life miserable by spying on me and talking rudely to me, relating me to other men and talking rubbish. We started fighting on these topics and somehow one day due to lot of misunderstandings he abused me to the core and told many bad words to me and my family. He broke every relation and stopped talking to me. I was very frustrated at that time and was crying everyday. I incidentally met a person on social networking and he was very funny and I used to divert my mind talking to him. There was nothing serious from both of us. One day he was talking something ugly and made non veg jokes. I stopped him once twice he did not listen. I stopped talking to him. After that my ex came suddenly and apologised and said he wanted to marry me. I didn't want to talk to him but due to his regular phone calls I had to talk to him. He came to know throgh my id that I spoke to someone. How ever much I try to convince him, he always thinks I had an affair and he don't trust me anymore. We both want to break this relationship but now we cant as our families are involved. Wo hamesha mujh pe shak karte even though I didn't do anything. Is it the right decision to marry him? I am only believing that he might change after marriage and moving forward with him but I am also very scared.

Q: I wrote a poem describing a scene of nature that I submitted to a large (non-Muslim) poetry competition. I came second place and have won R500. My poem will also be published in a poetry collection that will be distributed. There was no entrance fee for this competition. (1) Is the money I have won permissible? (2) Is it correct for me to get into these things - albeit not seriously and only occasionally - for perhaps some part-time income etc.? This would include writing poems, short essays, descriptive passages on nature, the rain, the environment, the effects of pollution and similar topics. Maybe these topics have some Deeni benefit and are not futile. I do not know. I think I am quite good in writing on these things as well. Please help me and correct my understanding.

Q: I wanted to know if it is permissible for someone to name his son with the title and name Imaam Husain? This person also had his Sheikh name the child where the mother also did not have a say in choosing the name for her baby boy. Could this somehow be related to Shiasm?

Q: I am a Pakistani and currently residing in Europe since many years. I used to have beard but started trimming it slowly and now I shaved it completely. I did because my nafs was no more supporting me to keep it as I stopped doing salaat (prayers), and I used to do other major sins, zina, friendship with girls, drinking, etc with beard face. I started feeling that my beard is just by name and to show to others that I am a very neat and clean Muslim. Important thing is that when I used to do any sin with beard it also gives bad name to muslims in society. That is also correct that beard was a way in my freedom to do these sins. Now my friends asking me that you was better with beard but they don't know the reality but Allah knows my reality. Although it is true that not making salaat, shaving beard, and doing other sins is very bad and leading to Jahannum. My questions are 1) Should I start growing beard again when I am not performing salaah and doing other sins in society e.g. friendship with girls, zina, not protecting the gaze. 2) Is there any difference in the level of sin when doing it clean shaven and keeping the beard less than a fist? 3) Should I just keep a beard to make my friends happy again? 4) Should I make myself correct in terms of compulsory commandments (Salaat), stop doing sins, and then I should keep a beard or the other way around (vice versa). Please help me in this situation as I am very worried about it.