Q: 'I am in a very difficult situation, my family is now persuading me to get married. However, the problem lies in the fact that I'm only attracted to men. I have no feelings for women whatsoever... I consider myself practising. I wouldn't want to get married and wreck somebody else's life... What do I do?! I'm somebody who'd rather stay single and control my desires but it's a really sticky situation.
Q: If someone/girl agrees to a "temporary marriage" aka muta marriage to a shia .. does this mean she leaves the fold of Islam? And if so what are the necessary procedures to come back into islam ?
Q: Firstly, when a relation of a milk mother (foster mother) or "Razaat" is established through breastfeeding a child, is this status of a mother given to the breastfeeding woman because of respect only and can she be regarded as a step mother?
Secondly, does this status of milk mother make her equivalent to a biological mother in terms of rights and all aspects which a biological mother has.
Q: Is a Muslim allowed to give his Christian daughter in marriage to a Christian man?
Q: After performing wudhu, makeup is applied and thereafter Nikah is performed? Is the nikah valid?
Q: I need advice on a few of the following issues relating to my new born baby.
I am due in a few weeks time inshAllah and my husband has requested for his grandfather to give the adhaan and perform the tahneek of our baby... After doing some research and finding out from a few aalims, I have come to the conclusion that the person who performs the tahneek and adhaan of the baby should be someone of piety. Now I'm not saying that I'm a brilliant Muslim but my husbands grandfather does not even read one salaah, and he poses no good qualities.
1. I wanted to know if there was a way to allow my grandfather in law to give the babies adhaan and avoid the tahneek and make my niyyah that an aalim of my choice perform the two at a later stage.
2. Or will it be possible if I as the mother perform it myself, both the adhaan and tahneek? I do understand that it is the most important part of my baby being brought into this world but I am stuck in a position of making everyone happy. If I have to tell my husband that I chose someone else, his whole family will have an issue because his grandfather performs all the adhaan and tahneek of all the babies being born in their families. And they dont choose the old man based on a deeni perspective, instead they choose him based strictly on the fact that hes the eldest living family member.
Q: I have a foster sister with whom I have shared milk from her mother. In my knowledge, she is like a sister to me and is mahram so I cannot marry her.
What I want to ask is that the other relations (her sisters and her neices [sister's daughters]), are they also mahram to me and I cannot marry them?
Q: I am in need of some much needed advice, my husband wishes to take on a second marriage to a girl who is already engaged. He is also on a very low income and can barely afford to look after our three children and myself, would it still be permissible for him to go ahead and marry her?
Q: Is it possible for a person to marry with a person of a different sect (maslak). Is it right to do so or should it be avoided?
Q: I am from India, non-Islamic country. I love a Christian woman. She is chaste and religiously righteous (prays daily, neither eat pork nor do alcohol, etc.). But she considers Jesus as god. Am I allowed to marry her, even though, what she does is considered shirk?