Q: My boss is going for umrah and I have been tasked with managing the business in his absence. While I was away over the weekend he installed a microphone listening device that he connected to the camera system. I understand that cameras are necessary and assist us in the event that customers have queries. I am unhappy with the listening device and feel that it is an invasion of privacy. What happens if I recieve a personal and private call from my wife? Please let me know if it is Islamically correct to use such systems to spy on staff and if I am justified in feeling unhappt about it.

Q: I have eczema. Any steroid/non steroid creams that I use for it, if they contain alcohol or animal derivatives, can I use them? 

Q: A fertlizer called amino acid is prepared from the hair of humans, dog or any other animal. So we are planning to buy hair from salons and then sell to this industries who make amino acid from hair. Is it permissible?

Q: My friend was treated badly by her former friends and sometimes she tells me about what happened and how she feels. She gets angry/upset when she talks. I think I've seen pics of her friends before and think I heard their names. Is it backbiting?

Q: How can one obtain the blessing of firasah?

Q: I have been affected by ocd for 6 years. I'm tired of it. I lost all hope in life. Is there any cure for it in Islam?

Q: If I do something like drop a family members toothbrush or have it accidentally touch something like the wall or my hair, but I clean it, am I obliged to still tell them what happened? I dont want to because I know they wont like that it had happened.

Q: Can we take homeopathic medicine with alcohol for kidney stones?

Q: If a person married his mahram and children were then born from this relationship, will the nasab (lineage) of the children be established from the father? Likewise, will the ruling be the same in the situation where a person married a woman who was haraam upon him because of hurmat-e-musaaharah, ridaa'at, etc. Also, can mufti saheb please explain if there is any difference in the ruling if the husband knew that she was haraam or didn't know?

Q: Is it permissible for a person to dispose of his hair (moustache hair, unwanted hair, etc.) in the toilet or dustbin?