Keeping dogs

Q: My question is that does having a dog in the house mean angels won't visit your home any more? I will be moving to a home where the basement is rented and the person who is renting it has a dog but this basement is separate entry and there is no way the dog can come to the upper portion. I am still worried as Allhumdulliah I am a practising Muslim. Please help.

Zakaat on gold

Q: If we pay zakaat for 108 grams gold one year, next year we minus 2.5 grams from that gold or not? I mean we pay 105.5 grams zakaat next year or pay for the same 108 grams?

Secret nikaah

Q: If a boy and girl get married with two witnesses, is it valid by him asking and she agreeing to the marriage? Also what is the ruling on marrying a girl older than you by a few years?

Reciting "rabbigh fir li" between the both sajdahs

Q: In regards to saying dua between two sajood during prayer; I contacted local Mufti and received fatwa that reading dua between two sajoods during prayer (Rabigh Firlee) is against the Sunaha of Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam); so there is no need for sajada-e-Sahu if someone don't read dua between two sajoods. I am 35 years old and never read Rabigh Firlee between two sajoods but during Hajj last year; I read in a book that of someone don't say "Rabigh Firlee" between two sajoods then he has to perform Sajad-e- Sahu and since then I am saying this dua between two sajoods. But after I contacted local Mufti for authenticity of this dua; he advised that it is against Sunnah. Please clarify.

Can the wife give the husband zakaat

Q: I am very concerned regarding zakaat. I got married last year and my husband is not well settled yet. He is completing his education and spending all his money on his family as being the eldest. With my job I support him and I feel happy for that. My question is he has taken a lot of loans from many people for establishing his business. Can I offer my zakaat to him so he can undo his loans and become a little easy, as he cannot save a single coin from his salary and I've to take out Rs 30k annually. I'm only worried about his loans. Other household expense I can share, but for loans can I give him zakaat?

Different colour discharges during haidh

Q: My question is the following: When I embraced Islam I was explained that end of the period is when you see no more reddish discharges. Then after some years I met one young hanafi alim and she told me that there are different ways how to determine end of the period. First is, if during your normal days you have no discharges (yellow or white, etc), then when you have your period you must wait for all discharges to finish, no matter they are reddish or just yellow or white etc, but within 10 days only. Second is, if you during your normal days you have some discharges, then you determine end of your period when you see such discharge, meaning if during normal days you have yellow-white discharges, then as soon as you see the same color of discharges close to you period, let’s say after reddish discharges, then as soon as you see them you can take ghusl and start salah. When I received all this information I choose option number 1, because I thought I had no discharges during normal days. I am quite sure I tried to be very careful about my decision on which way to choose. But now, after a year and a half and am looking back and having doubts. I remember that last Ramadan I was inserting cotton balls inside (I didn’t know at that time that it breaks ones fasting and one alim told me I don’t have to repeat my fasts) before every salah. I am thinking now trying to remember why I was doing it. If I was doing it because I was afraid to have discharges during salah and avoid to make new wudu all the time then does it mean I have to count how many salahs I missed due to wrong determination of the end of my period? Because obviously I missed few days if I was waiting for 10 days to let all discharges pass, even yellow, even white… But the thing is, I am not sure anymore why I was inserting cotton balls, I think it was to prevent discharges of desire to break my wudu, because I am not married and could have them anytime even if one sexual thought passed my mind for a second, I think I was mixing normal lubrication with discharge of desire and was securing myself too much with cotton balls. Having almost all the time cotton balls inside 5 times a day it probably didn’t give me opportunity to see if I had normal discharges during that time so that I could determine end of my period differently. But even here I am not sure, because obviously for night I was taking them out (even though at night usually no discharge appear because simply they don’t flow good in a sleeping position, but still can happen when they are there), so I really don’t remember how often I had the balls inside, the reason and was I determining my end of period correctly or not, I also don’t remember for how long all this happened, years or months. So what should I do know, should I start making qazas for salahs I might have missed? And how to count how many in case I have to do it?