Q: I am 60+ and a widower. My children are abroad. I want to marry a Muslim lady widow to take care of me.
Can I marry her with the following terms:
1. She will get paid an agreed amount monthly, live with me and do all my chores for an agreed period of time, say 7-10 years.
2. She will not get any share in my property after me.
Q: Mention the harms and consequences of pornography and masturbation.
Q: A Muslim woman married a non-Muslim. No nikaah took place, instead just a court marriage. The husband continues with his Hindu lifestyle and the woman continues with her Muslim lifestyle, i.e. she observes fasting and continues with salaah.
Is her ibaadat accepted or all in vain? What advice can we give her?
Q: We have a situation where a family member has married a Christian woman. He claims that she is a proper Christian therefore he made nikaah with her. Is it permissible for a Muslim male to marry a Christian woman in today's time?
According to my understanding, today most Christians are only Christians by name. They are not the Ahle Kitaab or like the Christians of former times. They don't know anything about their Christianity religion nor do they take their religion seriously. They don't go to church nor read their bible. They have become fully westernized and have accepted all the theories of the scientists like evolution, Dawin's theory, the big bang, etc.
Based on the above, my question is, is it still permissible to marry their women in today's time?
Q: I am a practising Muslim woman and I want to ask if I can marry a Muslim agnostic man. He lives by sunni school of thought, had a Muslim upbringing, is a Muslim on paper and doesn't indulge in anything haraam. He however, is struggling with the knowledge of Allah Ta'ala. He doesn't deny His existence but he says that he hasn't found a proof of Him as well. We both want to marry each other but I want to know if our nikaah will be valid or not?
Note: Agnosticism is different from Atheism and I hope that I made his beliefs clear.
Q: I have question a regarding marriage. I have been in a relationship with a girl for 10 years and she is Catholic and a very good human being. I love her dearly and have asked her to convert and she is not willing to. I feel very guilty for being with her for so long and having to leave her for religion issues. What is your suggestion regarding this matter? Can I still marry her? If so how should I approach it ?
Q: A child was born out of wedlock but he still uses his actual father's name everywhere to avoid embarrassment. He does that because only a few people know he is an illegitimate child. If he uses his mother's name this will lead to the suspicion of people and even those people who don't know that he is illegitimate will come to know about it. It wasn't the child's fault to go through this embarrassment. Is this fine and if not how should one go about to avoid people's taunts?
Q: Is your husband allowed to ignore you because you don’t look attractive to him 4 months after giving birth? Knowing very well that you’re making effort to exercise, etc?
Q: Is it permissible for a pregnant woman to have a 4D scan to determine the gender of her baby? The scan gives you a basic, clear picture of what the baby looks like.
Q: I have a question about marriage, because currently from what I read, it seems that whenever I hear of the word marriage I also think of the word terror and fear. This is because generally fatwas mention so many hadiths about the serve punishments of the wife for every mistake or shortcoming she does. But they never mention any hadiths like the ones mentioned in the case of the wife of being punished, cursed or anything like that regardless of what he does to her.
I even once saw a fatwa about a woman who's husband broke her arm, and the only thing they said is regarding the permissibility of hitting the wife and then they were telling the wife to be obedient and not ask for a divorce. This made me so sad, because if it was the wife doing something much smaller they would have said so much about the punishments and would have told the husband to divorce her and find someone else.
Also, on the same website they always mention that unlike the wife who must sleep in the same ooom as the husband if he wants, the husband does not have to sleep in the same room and bed as the wife, even if she tells him she wnats them to be in the same room, unless he wants to and there is no seen for his refusal even if it is for no reason. Is this true?
Also, I always see things like the husband has the right to prevent the wife from studying, working, visiting her parents and friends even if he has no reason, just because he wants to. Does he actually have the right to not let her do these things for no reason and just because he wants her to be at home the whole time? Wouldn't this harm her emotionally because she is never allowed to go out? Is there a sin on him? Is he allowed to do whatever he wants with her?