Women covering their hair while sleeping
Q: Do women need to cover their hair even while sleeping at night? What is the ruling related to covering hair for women?
Miscellaneous
Going to beauty salons
Q: Please can you tell me if this is permissible. My wife never exposes her hair outside the home. Is it permissible for me to send her to a hair salon to beautify her hair for me? It will not be cut or coloured, only styled. And the salon will be one where there are no men.
Assisting a non-muslim to clear up haraam items
Q: I have been practicing Islam for maybe nearly two years and I keep getting into situations that a difficult and hard for me, because I do not know what is the best thing to do at certain times.
- One thing I am not sure about is if it is cooperating in sin and transgression / disrespectful to Allah / sinful if a Muslim helped a non-Muslim family member tidy up (the non-Muslims) empty beer bottles and also helped the non-Muslim family member by tidying up haram food packaging?
- What is best for the Muslim to do if the Muslim wants to help the non-Muslim clean plates/tables that had haram food left over’s on them?
The non-Muslim family member has physical health problems and sometimes struggles with cleaning and the Muslim wants to also help the non-Muslim family member realize Islam is the truth.
Using a fly trap
Q: Is it permissible to use a flytrap which traps the flies inside and the liquid inside then kills them?
Face painting
Q: Is applying face paint on your face on sports day to identify with your team haraam? I heard a sister in Islam saying that it is haraam.
Removing the entire head from pictures of animate objects
Q: With regards to pictures of human beings and animals on boxes, plastic containers, dolls etc. Is it sufficient to remove the eyes only?
Sleeping after fajr
Q: Is it makrooh for one to sleep after fajr before sunrise or is it fine?
Aafiyah
Q: What is aafiyah?
Putting gold slits in the teeth
Q: Is it permissable for ladies to put gold slits in their teeth by a dentist?
Cupping
Q: I have heard that cupping is sunnat, and have also heard that cupping is not Sunnat. Which is the correct view? I was under the impression that all that Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam advised or did was Sunnat. Please can Mufti Saheb explain why cupping is not Sunnat and how things get classified as Sunnat?