Miscellaneous

Q: Is it permissible to keep a dog outside the house and take care of it? Also, if one keeps puppies with the intention of looking after them, will one be sinful? 

Q: I would like to ask you about prophetic medicines, like there are some ahaadith which clearly shows the confirmed results of prophetic medicines as below but sometimes it doesn't work, why? Where is the problem?

Ibn ‘Abbaas (radhiyallahu anhuma) reported that Nabi (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said: “Healing is to be found in three things: drinking honey, the knife of the cupper, and cauterization of fire.” (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 10/136).

Abu Hurayrah (radhiyallahu anhu) reported that Nabi (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said: “Whoever is treated with cupping on the seventeenth, nineteenth or twenty first, will be healed from all diseases.” (Reported by Abu Dawood, 3861, and al-Bayhaqi, 9/340. The isnad is hasan).

Al-Bukhaari (5688) and Muslim (2215) narrated from Abu Hurayrah (radhiyallahu anhu) that he heard the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) say concerning the black seed: “In it there is healing for every disease, except as-saam.” Ibn Shihaab said: As-saam is death.

Q: Can we use a green colour mat for the floor? 

Q: I want to ask what should a person do if he uses an abusive word for his mother due to anger issues?

Q:

1. Is it allowed in Islam to have legal weapons for self defense?

2. Is it a sunnah to have weapons for self defense?

Q: My family, especially my parents want me to get rid of my kitten that I bought but I am refusing. Can you please tell me if this is right or not. Am I committing a sin by not listening to my parents even though keeping a cat is not haraam. 

Q: If I am very certain that if I give salam to someone, that person won't answer me back as it happens always. Should I give salam to that person  everyday when they enter the home or should I refrain from this as it is increasing their sins?

Q: Is it permistable to use bedding, curtains or a cushion with a butterfly on it with no eyes or face?

Q: I do art embroidery. Will it be acceptable for me to embroider the image of an animal or insect e.g. a cat, but with the face covered?

Q: Platelet rich plasma is a procedure whereby the doctor draws the patients own blood and puts it in a vial in a machine that spins it at a fast rate. This causes the blood to separate the red blood cells from the plasma (which contains growth factors and nutrients). The plasma part of the spun blood is then withdrawn and injected into the skin to assist with healing. It can be used in many applications such as to remove skin pigmentation, wrinkles, to promote wound healing and also to induce hair growth in patients with alopecia (falling hair/no hair).

The plasma can be used with microneedling as well. Microneedling is a procedure whereby multiple needles are superficially pierced into the skin after using a local anaesthetic, to initiation the body's own healing processes and this allows for more controlled healing thereby assisting with scars, stretchmarks, pigmentation as well as to assist with hair growth.

My question is:

1. Is the use of the platelet rich plasma permissable in hairgrowth in patients with alopecia or thinning hair? There are other modalities for hair growth such as minoxidil and finasteride but these are shown to only stop hair from falling and does not assist with new hair growth. Also some reports state that the results with these are more temporary and less effective than using platelet rich plasma.

2. Would platelet rich plasma be permissable in other applications such as for scars, stretchmarks, dark skin pigmentation, wrinkles?