Q: I do art embroidery. Will it be acceptable for me to embroider the image of an animal or insect e.g. a cat, but with the face covered?

Q: If I am walking on the street and I recite a verse of sajdah tilaawat several times while continuing to walk, how many sajdahs should I make? 

Q: What is the ruling for a fasting woman who inserts portion of the tissue into the private part for istinjaa? Will her fast break through this?

Q: I went to Makkah Muazzama for hajj on 12 August, and stayed there till 30 August. Before traveling from my home country, I already intended that I will stay in Makkah Muazzama for more than 15 days. On 19 August, I was in Mina. Was I supposed to perform qasar salah or should I have performed full salah?

Q: It is becoming a common phenomenon that Muslim husbands leave their wives and kids alone at home to go for “boy’s night”. This is aside from time that they spend playing sport such as soccer and exercising. Is this permissible and healthy for one's family life? If so, how frequently should husbands be going out to spend time with their friends?

Q: Platelet rich plasma is a procedure whereby the doctor draws the patients own blood and puts it in a vial in a machine that spins it at a fast rate. This causes the blood to separate the red blood cells from the plasma (which contains growth factors and nutrients). The plasma part of the spun blood is then withdrawn and injected into the skin to assist with healing. It can be used in many applications such as to remove skin pigmentation, wrinkles, to promote wound healing and also to induce hair growth in patients with alopecia (falling hair/no hair).

The plasma can be used with microneedling as well. Microneedling is a procedure whereby multiple needles are superficially pierced into the skin after using a local anaesthetic, to initiation the body's own healing processes and this allows for more controlled healing thereby assisting with scars, stretchmarks, pigmentation as well as to assist with hair growth.

My question is:

1. Is the use of the platelet rich plasma permissable in hairgrowth in patients with alopecia or thinning hair? There are other modalities for hair growth such as minoxidil and finasteride but these are shown to only stop hair from falling and does not assist with new hair growth. Also some reports state that the results with these are more temporary and less effective than using platelet rich plasma.

2. Would platelet rich plasma be permissable in other applications such as for scars, stretchmarks, dark skin pigmentation, wrinkles? 

Q: I work in a jewellery store in which we sell watches, earrings, different chains, etc. Some of the chains that we sell contain Christian connotations e.g. the Christian cross, the face of Jesus, etc. I personally don’t like to sell these items and I don’t own the store. What should I do?

Q: Is it permissible to slaughter a sheep whose tail is cut. They say it was cut due to medical reasons.

Q: A married lady wants to perform umrah without a mahram but with a group of ladies, is it permissible?

Q: I breed and sell cats as a business. Is this a permissible form of income?