Q: A friend of mine has his own business as an insurance broker. I am in the motor industry. If clients require insurance for their vehicles, I forward their information to him. He provides them with insurance and pays me R1000 commission for every client that accepts insurance. I would like to know if I could use that money.
Q: I have travelled the musaafir distance to a major city with many suburbs within it, and I will be residing in this city for two months. However, from time to time, I will move between the suburbs of this city and spend the night in the different suburbs of this city. Up to now, I do not have the intention to stay 15 days in one particular suburb. Am I a musaafir or a muqeem?
Q: Kindly clarify whether it is correct to say that in the previous ummats, only the Nabi was allowed to give dawat. As proof, it is said that Hazrat Haroon (Alayhis Salaam) was made a Nabi in order to accompany Nabi Musa (Alayhis Salaam). But is it not the case that the person mentioned in Surah Yaseen also gave dawat to people by asking them to follow the Nabi? Also, people in previous ummats had to act to prevent people from wrongdoing (preventing evil is also considered part of dawat). Does this not show that ummatis of the previous ummats also had to engage in some form of dawat?
Q: If a boy was sexually abused in his childhood and is now an adult, can he attempt suicide? What does Islam say in this regard?
Q: Is it permissible to recite the Qur'aan Majeed when the satar is exposed?
Q: I heard that the Surah recited after Surah Faatihah in the second rakaat should be shorter than the one recited in the first rakaat. What is the Shar'ee ruling regarding this?
Q: I have been told that when visiting the holy places, Makkah Mukarramah and Madinah Tayyibah, one should not bring home the sand or rocks as momentos. Please elaborate.
Q: Is it permissible to order Islamic books online and have them delivered through shipping, even though the books contain aayaat (and some are tafseers and translations) and one knows that the shipping process is quite rough? Realistically, the packages will be thrown around, placed on the ground, will have other goods placed upon it, might even get stepped on, etc. before it gets to the destination. Am I allowed to order?
Q: My sister's husband's income is not good. In a month sometimes it happens that they are hungry the whole day. On the other hand she has fridge, TV etc. Can I give her zakat money.
Q: My youger brother who is jobless and they have newborn baby. Currently, he has no income. Can we give him bulk of zakaat so he can fulfill the needs of his wife and baby? Few months ago we gave him zakaat for the amount equivalent to US$1000 which he deposited in his bank account. Can we give me more money from zakaat so he can manage the needs of his wife and baby?