Q: What is the ruling on a person of the Hanafi Maslak taking knowledge or rulings from people such as 'Sheik Assim Al-Hakeem' who is a Salafi?

Q: What is the ruling on reading Ayatul Kareema 125 000 times so calamity/difficulty is alleviated? 

Is it permissible to get a few people to assist you in reading this Ayah many times so that the benefits may be reaped by everyone? 

Q: If a person has survived a tsunami or an earthquake, will the taubah of such a person still be accepted for the remaining portion of his life considering the fact that this person has experienced the punishment of Allah.

Q: 

1. What is the correct way to kill a fish so it is halal to eat? 

2. If I get a live fish, and it dies because it was taken out of the water (lack of oxygen), can I eat it? 

3. Or does the fish have to be killed with a knife then its permissible to eat?

Q: I would like to know what is the masaail concerning fake goods. As a retailer stocking original goods (which does come with its price tag) finds others selling fake goods matching the originals at a much lower rate. Is it permissible to stock these goods? 

And what is the masaail concerning a person purchasing fake goods because the price is right.

Q: Is watching videos and looking at images haraam? 

For example, is watching a video on YouTube which includes no music or indecent clothing haraam, because there are videos which don’t include these. 

I am confused whether videos are haraam since most of them contain music and indecent clothing or are they are haraam because looking at animate things is haraam. 

Will watching a video which contains no music or indecent clothing be allowed? 

Is looking at images haraam? 

For example, is looking at an image of a bird haraam? 

If the image contains no indecency is it allowed?

Q: I am a travel agent. It is becoming a common practice to offer customers travel insurance. We get commission back if the customer takes it and forms part of our revenue. Can we use this commission?

Q: Is it permissible to consume Colloidal Silver as medication?

Q: In our school, two people had done a play in a program in which one becomes the devil and he tries to whisper evil thoughts into the other person.  And the other person reads ta'wuz to ward the devil off. And he doesn't listen to the devil. 

Was it sinful? It was done with intention of dawah.

Q: I've read in an authentic book that durood can be a means for our ibadah being accepted. Does this mean that durood purifies the good deeds a person has done like istigfar? For example a person does deeds with inadequate sincerity and then does durood.