Q: I began a home education course last year around April when I was 17. In turn the government paid us benefits. However I slacked from April last year and only began taking the course seriously this year in early Jan. I had already made the intention to save up money to pay back the amount I unlawfully received from last year April to this year Jan.

The problem is, recently we received information that we shouldn’t have been receiving the money at all because the course wasn’t qualified. However we were told we didn’t have to pay back the amount they gave us due to bad inquiry on their side. They don’t know that I wasn’t doing the course last year though, even though they were giving us money for it. Now that I know that the money they gave us for that course shouldn’t have been given to us anyway, but they don’t expect us to pay it back, should I forget collecting and paying back the money I unlawfully received last yr?

I asked another scholar and they told me that if I fear I could face severe repercussions if I told the establishment that I didn’t utilise the money correctly, then I don’t have to tell them and I just have to do Istighfar. I’m not sure if the repercussions would be severe - maybe they’ll fine me, but I’m not truly sure or maybe legal action might be taken. But truly I don’t know and I don’t want to find out. Can I just leave it?

Q:

1. Is buying a land which is not identifiable like people buy for example 500 yards in a housing scheme but the plot purchased is not yet demarcated, permissible?

2. If one has such a land, is selling it and using that money to buy another land which is well identifieable permissible? (I mean using the money obtained by selling the land which was not identifiable permissible or not?

3. Buying a flat in installments in a building which is under construction, and hence the apartment one bought is not physically there when the agreement to purchase was signed. He then started to pay the installments, and his flat was, in the meanwhile constructed and he continued to pay. Is buying such a property which was not physically present permissible? Can one sell it once it is completed and he clears all the installments? Would the money obtained by selling it be halal?

Q: In some coutries, ulama say that zikr (like Lailaha illahu wahdehu la shareeka lehu... zal jadda minkal jadd) which is done after prayers with loud voice is sunnah. We have never heard our ulama or Imamas in Pakistan doing zikr after prayers with audible voice. Can you please guide what is Sunnah?

Q: I was an extraordinarily bright student with achievements of state level and 4 gold medals that I received from Chief of the Air staff but all of a sudden I began to feel frightened drowsy and having intrusive thoughts. Its been 7 years now and my sufferrings are not ending. I think a relative who I suppose was jealous of my achievements has casted a spell of some sort of magic on me. He has no child even after 10 years of marriage. What is the truth of black magic in Islam and how can we break its spell?

Q: If I find a fish already dead in the sea, will it be considered as carrion? Can I eat it?

Q: If I have three daughters, is it allowed to give 85g of gold to each of them?

Q: Is it permissible for the husband to issue a talaaq while the wife is in her menses?

Q: Is it possible to marry an ex-wife's daughter? I know a man that married a woman 13 years older and she never told him she has a daughter almost his age. They are not together any longer and he wants to propose to the daughter. Is this permissible considering he didn't know this? He didn't have intercourse with her since finding out as he was very hurt and shocked.

Q: If the discharge color changes and seems lightish brown, does the haiz start or not? Does one need to wait for red flow of blood to count whether haiz started?

Q: One of my cousins and her friends are planning to go on a holiday, which requires 1.5 hours to 3 hours flight journey and staying there for 7 days in a friend's known family guest house.

My question is, can they travel without a mahram? They are taking the fact that a woman can travel from one safe place to another.