Q: If a person earns haraam money or eats food containing haraam then his dua is not accepted, does that include Quranic supplications or durood sharif sent upon Nabi (sallallahu alaihi wasallam)?

Q: I wanted to know if the following is true or not:

For two or three hours after the burial of a person, his soul is very disturbed. In such a situation, should the family members sit and read near the grave or from anywhere in the house and send reward for him?

Q: When the corpse is buried, one person stands at the head of the grave and recites Surah Faatihah and the other recites the last ruku of Surah Baqarah while standing at his feet. This is called (Talqeen) (indoctrination). Is it permissible to recite this?

Q: We hear in some bayans, "Allah will ask us on the day of qiyaamah, that Deen was coming out of the lives of the people, what did you do to bring Deen alive?"

1. Is this a valid statement to make?

2. Will we be questioned about whether we made efforts of Deen or not?

3. If someone does not make any effort of deen on others at all, but does practice on deen himself, will he be taken to task for this?

4. What is the ruling regarding tabligh in the current tarteeb present, is it something mustahab, or mubaah, or what?

5. What is the ruling regarding tasawwuf in the current tarteeb present of going to a shaykh etc, is it something mustahab, or mubaah, or what?

Q: Can a father refuse to pay nafaqah (child support) for his child if his ex wife denies him access to his child?

Q: If a person thinks that doing love affairs is not a sin, and kissing his girlfriend is not a sin, but he believes that zina is a sin. Will he become a kafir?

Q: I was married to a man in Canada and lived with him for many years. Unfortunately, we had many problems and fights, until I left him and returned to my country of Bangladesh.

My husband did not want to divorce me, so I obtained a divorce from the non-Muslim court.

A few years have passed since the court issued the divorce. I now want to reconcile with my ex-husband and remarry him.

My question is whether we need to repeat the nikaah or whether the nikaah is still intact, as the divorce was issued by the kaafir court and my husband did not want to divorce me.

Q:

1. Is using a shower considered to be contrary to the sunnah of a bucket bath?

2. If one has a shower, how should one achieve a sunnat ghusl?

3. Would it be better to use a bucket despite having a shower available?

4. Does the same thing apply regarding wudhu and using a tap vs the mudd utensil?

Q: Clarification on zikr, self hypnosis in regard to some sufi practices.

1. Are self-hypnosis techniques like whirling dervishes common during the Rumi era, haraam? Are their practices considered a bid'ah?

2. Likewise many groups hold zikr sessions which last a long time. It includes chanting, is this considered a bid'ah?

3. Many buzurgs get buried with a small part of the kiswa fabric. Is this considered a bid'ah? Is calling any of these practices openly a bid'ah, haraam?

Q: One of my colleagues converted to Islam but she is married to a Christian, and her husband did not agree to convert. So since her husband did not agree to convert, after how many months is she able to get married again to a Muslim man?