Male sleeping on the same bed with his mahram
Q: After you become baligh, are you allowed to sleep with women that are old on the same bed but different duvets or the same duvet?
Miscellaneous
Listening to nasheeds with drums played in the background
Q: A nasheed was sang with drums at a wedding. Is it permissible to listen at other times to the nasheed because it has drums in it?
Making a software application that helps people play games
Q: Is it permissible to make a software application that helps people play games? My software will not have any sinful elements, it is for an online game. So the people that use my software will have an easier time playing the online game.
The prohibition of picture-making applying to digital photography
Q: The following was asked to me:
What is the ruling on digital photography?
Is it Haram or Makrooh-e-Tahreemi amalan Haram?
If it is Haram, then on what basis?
From what I understand, a Haram ruling is given when the action is explicitly comes in Nas. However, a Makrooh-e-Tahreemi ruling is given when there is no explicit Nas.
Digital photography does not come explicitly in the Nusoos, as the Nusoos are speaking about paintings, etc. or animated images on paper etc.
I would like an informative answer, please, so I can silence the person who has asked this question. I do not know how to give a good answer in a way that completely dispels the other person's doubts.
Also another question from my side: Is photography a Mukhtalaf fih Mas'alah or a Ijma' Mas'alah? If it the latter then who's Ijma'?
Being blessed with the tawfeeq of doing good deeds and avoiding sins
Q: I would like some advise. Ever since I have started reading Tahajjud, making more Zikr and going out in jamaat, I find myself being very judgmental of others, I have thoughts that I am better than others, this makes me very scared.
I am thinking I should stop doing these amaal as it is not feeling very sincere any more. What should I do when I have these thoughts?
Woman keeping students at her home to earn an income
Q: A couple used to host students studying as an income, where the students stay in the house and a cooked meal is provided and a place to sleep.
The husband has passed on and the wife is now under Iddah. She is also in her late 60's. Can she continue doing this work as an income and whilst under Iddah?
Asking for forgiveness from Allah Ta’ala with sincerity and a firm resolve
Q: When I ask Allah Ta'ala for forgiveness for all my sins, then what frame of mind must I have?
Making animate pictures using AI or other tools
Q: My question is regarding generative AI, and other tools that are used to edit photos, such as a recent trend I noticed where people take selfies, then cartoonify that picture, either through AI or other tools..
I understand there is a difference of opinion regarding photos captured by a camera, due to it not explicitly falling under the ruling of tasweer (according to those who allow it). Can the same be said for these generative tools or they fall clearly under the definition of tasweer.
Singing a line of music
Q: Is it permissible to sing a line of music and just say it's just a saying or meme?
There is a new trend on Instagram and some people are now using these lines.
I would like to know how to advise them.
Defending others from oppression
Q: My friend was telling a story of a time when he was defending his sister against another person who was a non Muslim trying to attack her and he beat him up. Is what he did correct?