Q: A person's estate may be liable to pay more than 10 million in estate duty.
In order to avoid this, is it permissible to have an insurance policy that will, upon his death, pay out only whatever the estate duty amount is? No money from this will be received by the heirs.
Q: I live with my in laws, and though I have a separate portion, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom, my husband does not allow me to use the separate entrance or exit of that house portion. He forced me to use the door outside that goes through his parent's portion of the house.
Does Islam allow me to have a separate entry and exit from the house portion?
Q: I would like to know if Baal Mubarak (practice of keep the hair of Nabi [sallallahu alaihi wasallam]) is valid and if the practice of reading salaami is permissible?
Q: A man adopted a boy and a girl. Can this man give this boy and girl zakaat money?
Q: Is it jaaiz to seal the grave with concrete so that no one else could be buried there?
Q: I have a brother and a sister. My brother has taken a loan from a bank and has to pay back the loan with interest. My sister wants to open a fixed deposit with the intention of giving the interest earned on the fixed deposit to my brother so he can pay off his own loan. Can she do it, even when my brother has enough income to pay off the loan himself?
Q: When traveling, how do I calculate safr distance? I am leaving from my house in Johannesburg to another place. From my house to the destination is 80km. But from the outskirts of my city to the outskirts of the place is 65km.
Do we work with the full distance or from the outskirts to the outskirts of the city?
Q: Can the entire top floor of a building be musjid whilst the bottom floor is not?
The bottom floor will be the wudhu khana which is out of the masjid and some rooms which will be used for other masjid related work (store room etc.).
Q: I currently live in Pretoria and work in Jet Park (I travel about 128km a day to and from work). Currently I use my car everyday to work and back. I have previously looked at the Gautrain as an alternative, however it worked out a little too expensive for me.
Recently, my small brother informed me that he receives a discount on his Gautrain trips (as he is a student) but doesn't use this discount as his campus isn't so far and it's easier for him to drive. As he isn't using this discount- He had offered it to me to use his discount to travel to work.
My question - Would it be permissible to use his discount for my benefit (considering he is a student and I am not)?
Q: If someone is ill and has some disabilities, doing wudu and praying salah will increase the illness. He doesn't have anyone to help him. Can he do tayammum and pray sitting down?