Q: I would like to clarify whether the following mas’alah is correct: 

If a particular woman has a haidh habit of 7 days and 3 days after the expected date of her haidh she began bleeding and she bled until the end of the 12 days then in this case 4 days will be regarded as haidh and the remainder as istihaadha. Thus from the following month her new habit will be 4 days. For example a woman has a habit of bleeding from the 1st to the 7th of every month. During a particular month she bled from the 4th until the 15th. Thus the first 4 days i.e. from the 4th to the 7th, will be regarded as haidh and the remainder will be istihaadha. Thus qadha will be necessary for the days of istihaadha.

Q: In the posture of qiyaam, should a woman join her feet together or should there be a gap of four fingers between her feet, as is the case of men?

Q: In the posture of qiyaam, where should a woman place her hands? Should she place her hands below her chest or on her chest?

Q: Is the following regarded as the person being dishonest?

Eg, person A asks person B about a certain event that had taken place during the weekend.. Now, person A knows that it had happened, and many other people know that that event took place and they also know that person B witnessed the event that took place, yet, when person B was asked if he was aware of knowing, his answer was ' I don't know, yes I was at that particular place at that time but I don't know if that event took place' ......the best part is that later on, person B admitted that he witnessed the event, yet, he argues that by him saying 'I don't know' doesn't mean that he was lying in the least bit... Mufti, was he lying when he was initially asked??

And also he comes up with a weird excuse that he knew person A was aware of the event etc, that's why he said he didn't know?? Yes, as childish as it seems, that's what he said.....

Q: I am heavily indebted with loans from banks. I am trying to settle them all but lately I have other financial problems that keep rising making the burden heavier. I know all of the difficulties are my fault interest = declaring war with Allah I would like to know what I can do to make maaf to Allah at the same time paying off my debts, and my wife doesn’t know how deep in trouble I am as I am afraid if I tell her she might leave me.

Q: We have a company selling computers with Muslim and non-Muslim customers.

Some customers require financing/loans (which comes with interest) through third party financing institutions to buy the equipment from us.

Firstly, is it permissible for us to accept the payment from the financial institution on their behalf? We are not engaging in interest but we have to be registered as an authorized supplier with the institution.

Secondly, as some Muslims also tend to go through the same system, we want to provide an in-house interest-free financing facility for our Muslim customers only so that they do not have to pay interest and get a short-term facility on their purchase from us. Can we make the credit price higher than the cash price? For example, if R100 is the cash price, can we charge R125 for credit term over 6 monthly instalments?

Q: My husband has a business and we are struggling, please tell me what we can do to bring prosperity in our Company, we are good honest Muslims.

Q: Whenever I recite holy quran, I blow breath on drinking water, on my husband and children. I have noticed this whenever I do dum, in those days my husband become ill, restless, feeling body ache and his sleep become disturbed. When I stop reciting Quran, he is feeling good in those days. I don’t know why?

Q: Is it permissible for a dressmaker to sew the uniform worn by ladies of the Zion/Nazareth church? This dress will only be used during their prayers.

Q: Trading in cosmetics is ok in Islam or not? Please explain in the light of Ahadees?