Q:
1. When a Muslim passes away and the body is brought home after the ghusl, should the body be placed on the ground? Or should it be placed on a table?
2. Should people sit around the body and recite or should they stand around the body? Please advise on what is preferable or ideal.
Q: I am planning on marrying a woman. But recently she told me she had sex and she has never been married. Islamically is it permissible for me to marry her?
Q: My front teeth were yellow so I went to the dentist and he applied permanent white coating on them. Is it allowed?
Q: Is it prohibited to keep the fingers of one hand in the other hand (intertwining) generally or it is only during Friday sermon?
Q: If a husband divorced his wife once and took her back, our local mufti agreed that the divorce can be forgiven. Does the husband need to pay zakaat to the poor or do something else? If he does need to pay then how much?
Q: I earn a living through selling items at auctions. Sometimes, I bid on my own goods on auction, or get someone else to bid on my goods, in order to raise the price of my items. Since the bidding commences at a low price, I fear that I may suffer a loss if I do not do so. Is this permissible in Islam?
Q: I own a carwash where I employ staff to wash the cars of customers who come to get their cars cleaned.
I erected a sign informing the customers that neither my staff nor I will be held liable for any damage caused to their vehicles on my premises, and entry is at their own risk. Is this permissible?
After making this declaration, if one of my staff accidentally damages a customer's car, who is responsible?
Q:
1. Would a graze that isn't flowing out blood, but would leave a faint print of blood on anything it came in contact with, break your wudhu?
2. In the above mentioned situation, say if the non flowing blood continuously came in contact with another part of the body or clothes etc., is it compulsory to wash that part of the body or clothes before performing salaah?
Q: I earn a living by selling cars. I go to auctions and buy second-hand cars. Thereafter, I leave the car with a dealer who has a showroom. The dealer sells the car for me and we split the profit according to a pre-agreed percentage (e.g. 50% each).
Before selling the car, the dealer sometimes has some work done on the car such as repairing wind-screen chips, touching up the paint, changing the tyres, etc. The cost for this work is deducted from my share of the profit. Is this permissible?
Q: I am a former musician who by the will of Allah, will not go back to doing music.
What happens to the music that I already put out which is beyond my control now? Will Allah punish me for people listening to my music after I have sincerely asked forgiveness?