Q: My cat just ate impure food and she rubbed her mouth on part of my sleeve. The sleeve then became wet and smelt of her saliva. I used wet-wipes and rubbed over the area until there was no smell and then I dried the area. I continued to pray in the same top. Was this okay in terms of purification?
Q: I like to ask you about fidyah.
1. If you can't fast in Ramadan because of ill health, do you need to give fidyah for 30 days?
2. Do you need to give fidyah to one person or more than one persons?
3. Can I give fidyah to a charity organisation then they may distribute it?
Q: Some people say in Jannah women stay indoors and only men go out, they use hadith like this
1. Anas ibn Malik (radhiyallahu anhu) reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Verily, there is a market in paradise to which the men will come every Friday. The wind will scatter fragrance on their faces and clothes and will increase their excellence and beauty. They will return to their wives after having been increased in excellence and beauty and they will say: by Allah, we have seen you increased in excellence and beauty! They will say them: by Allah, we have seen you increased in excellence and beauty! Source: Saheeh Muslim 2833.
So the hadith makes it sound like women can't meet their daughters or adult sons.
2. And in ayah 55:70-72 Quraan it says that fair ones reserved in tents. How do we understand that because it makes it sound like women can't go out or meet families or female friends or adult sons.
3. Sahih Al-bukhari 3243 Narrated `Abdullah bin Qais al-Ash`ari (radhiyallahu anhu): The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "A tent (in paradise) is like a hollow pearl which is thirty miles in height and on every corner of the tent the men will have wives that cannot be seen by the others." (Narrated Abu `Imran in another narration, "The tent is sixty miles in height.")
The hadith says (wives don't see each other). Does this mean that the women of Jannah can't see and meet her family like her adult children and her mum and dad and her female friends because the hadith makes it sound like she will only see her husband. Because the reason I'm contacting is I love my mum and I want to meet her and be with her in Jannah if we both make it there.
Q: I have a lot of confusion from few months and it’s affecting my mental health. Please help me to come to a conclusion.
My brother married to a Salafi women (extreme) and she always has an argument with us that we are following a wrong path and all Muslims have to do research in order to come to a right path just like non Muslims have to do research in order to find the truth of Islam. She claims that we Muslims also have do research in order to come to true the path. She always shows the hadith from Bukhaari ,etc. to prove her point and to be honest by looking at the hadith she seems correct to me and moreover my brother is also inclining towards Salafism now.
Some of the arguments that our family had with her as follows:
(1) Women's prayers are similar to men and she shows a hadith where the prohet (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) told to read as you see me praying
(2) You can't do qurbani on Muhammed's (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) name as it is biddah and she tells the logic that Muhammed (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) doesn’t need sawab of it
(3) Zakatul fitr in cash
(4) Quran recitation for the deceased
(5) 1 rakat witr can also be read
(6) Combining salah for travel and important works
(7) Masah on cotton socks as she told that Allah wants ease for us but scholars have made it difficult by laying down so many conditions to it. (I personally feel quite attracted by these logics as washing the feet outside is very difficult for wudhu so if we take her opinion it will bring a lot of ease)
(8) 3 talaq is one as she said Umar (radhiyallahu anhu) has imposed it to three as it has always been one at the time of prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) and she shows a Hadith that clarified her point to these clearly.
And many others rulings, etc.
One thing I want to mention that my family is not religious or you can say not much knowledgeable into these type of stuff and they are easily influenced by it and I am the youngest member of my home so no one listens to me.
And recently I noticed that 80 percent of the top famous Islamic scholars also belong to Salafi fiqh and more and more people of my surroundings are becoming Salafis (recently my whole uncle's family became Salafi's). They also have the same argument saying that imaams are not prophet’s and they can make mistakes and they always say the quote's of an imaam that if the hadith is saheeh then that is my madhab.
Basically they are trying to say that there are lot of mistakes in fiqh especially in Hanafi fiqh saying that Imaam Abu Hanifa didn't have much resources in his time nor did he travel so much so he gave rulings just on the basis of Quraan mostly that is why there are a lot of contradictions in ther rulings with the Saheeh Hadith.
They also say that the 4 imaams followers are doing the similar thing what the Arabs used to do in jaahiliyat that following their elders blindly without any proof . I don't know but I find their arguments quite attractive that we should follow Saheeh Hadith and Quraan.
I also done research myself but I couldn’t judge which one is correct. When I read or listen to Salafi scholars, they seem correct and when I listen to Hanafi scholars, they seem correct to me. What to do now? Please help.
Am I following the right path by being a strong DEOBANDI HANAFI follower or am I on the wrong path? Please guide me and give answers based on rationality and not just that you are following Hanafi so Hanafi will be correct. As a Muslim, should I research about it and not merely believe just because my grandfather follows Hanafi fiqh?
Q: I recently heard someone say that it is permissible for the sister-in-law to not make parda from her brother-in-law when:
1. There is no scope of fitna.
2. When it becomes difficult for her to leave her own room for basic needs.
My friend has recently married into a family of 6. They live in a small flat. Her brother-in- law is 6 years younger than her and she claims he is an actual replica of her brother in her maternal home. There isn't a chance that they can ever be alone. It becomes difficult for her to constantly be in her cloak, burkha and pardah the entire day almost as if she is at a guests home and not in a home that she has a right to stay in. What is the ruling regarding this?
Q: Is it permissible to make dua after the eid salah before the khutbah, thus delaying the khutbah and not making dua at all in the second khutba?
Did Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, the Sahaabah. or any of the four Imams or the fuqaha of their madhabs mention making the dua between the salah and khutbah?
Q:
1. Will a clean shaven Hafiz be termed as a fasiq in Shari'ah?
2. Will his Shahadat be accepted?
3. Can he lead Taraweeh Salah in his own house with people behind?
4. Can he be appointed to assist with administrative and running of finances in a Masjid?
Q: Is it permissible to join the salaahs when a person undertakes a journey and is a musafir?
Example, you are leaving a country and it is zuhr time so before the flight you join Zuhr and asr? Or you visited a country and you go to a shop and maghrib time sets in so you read maghrib and Isha together? Is this permissible and if not, does one get a sin when they do it?
Q: A Muslim man offers treatment for sihr by asking for uncleaned tripe, dirty underwear, nails and hair and then also has a red parcel to add which supposedly has lentils in it, Allah knows best. Is this allowed?
Q: I'd like to know can a husband invite his parents home without discussing with his wife if she is willing to host them?