Performing salaah in a plane
Q: I travel a lot across countries and most of the time I perform my prayers in a plane. What is the correct way of praying while in a plane and what timings do I follow?
Questioning Allah Ta'ala
Q: I wonder why Allah Ta'ala has created me? I know He created me so that I could worship Him. But He knew that I wouldn't worship Him. So why did He create me specially? Why did He waste His time on me?
Stopping the recitation of the Quraan to make salaam and musaafahah
Q: In the masjid where I learn tajweed of Quran, it is a common practice that the one entering the masjid says salaam and does musaafaha with everyone present there, even if the person is busy in recitation of Quran. Should the person reciting the Holy Quran answer to his salam and do musaafaha with him?
Breaking one's intention to fast after fajr due to not waking up for sehri
Q: What if one breaks the niyah of روزہ قضا after azan of fajr because he wasnt able to wake up for suhoor.
Working for a company that supplies bombs
Q: Is it permissible to work in an engineering procurement at a company that supplies munitions (bombs) to various parts of the world?
Receiving discount if instalments are paid prior to the due date
Q: I'm buying a flat in installments. The company is giving discount if I pay the installments prior to the due date. Is it interest? Is it halal?
Marrying one's foster sister's sisters and neices
Q: I have a foster sister with whom I have shared milk from her mother. In my knowledge, she is like a sister to me and is mahram so I cannot marry her.
What I want to ask is that the other relations (her sisters and her neices [sister's daughters]), are they also mahram to me and I cannot marry them?
Proposing for a girl that is already engaged
Q: I am in need of some much needed advice, my husband wishes to take on a second marriage to a girl who is already engaged. He is also on a very low income and can barely afford to look after our three children and myself, would it still be permissible for him to go ahead and marry her?
Delaying the Asr Salaah
Q: Is it permissible to pray asr salaah during the last 20 minutes between asr and maghrib? (If I didn’t deliberately delay it).
Taking an interest bearing loan to purchase a car
Q: I want to buy a car for my use but for that I want to know whether it is allowed for me to take a loan from a bank on monthly installments (interests) as I have no other way to fulfill my need. Can I avail that option since I am in need and also I have filled up the paper work.