Miscellaneous

Using mannequins

Q:

1. Is it permissible to use mannequins in order to display clothing in a store?

2. Is it permissible to use mannequins to display clothing in order to take pictures of the clothing for advertising purposes.

NB: mannequins are available in different variants, male, female, with face, headles, with or without the lower torso. Could Mufti Saheb please advise the ruling with regards to each option.

Repentance from major sins

Q:

1. Would Allah accept salah of a person who commits major sins?

2. Would Allah accept salah of a person who gives and recieves interest (ribaa)?

3. Would Allah accept good deeds like salah of a person whose in debt?

4. Is it true if you miss 3 jummah(Friday salah) you lose your religion?

5. Does Allah accept repentance from a person who doesn't pray salah?

Superiority in lineage

Q:

1. My question is regarding the rule in Islam that commands Muslims to choose their caliph (khalifah) from among the tribe of Quraysh. The question here rises that how can Islam limit leadership to Quraysh and create a concept of Qurayshi , Non-Qurayshi.

2. Secondly I have read on another website that Arab Muslims who's piety is superior to non Arab Muslims piety in “general terms” as they are better in linage and descent. This again is a very irrational mentality. Clarify the following.

Playing a game with a halloween theme

Q: I play a game where you can decorate a room with furniture for diffrent kinds of houses around the world. On this game there recently came out to design a room for a bewitched/haunted house and you can get extra points. It doesn't really exist and they put that theme up because of halloween. I thought its haraam to design it but did non the less. Is it kufar what I have done. The one house they said was haunted and the other they said a lady built the house to appease her husbands ghost (I read that part only after I designed it and got points).

Playing games with a dice

Q:

1. Is it permissible to play a game which involves rolling a dice?

2. Is the following hadith sahih? It was narrated by Muslim (2260), Abu Dawood (4939), Ibn Maajah (3763) and Ahmad, from Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “Whoever plays with dice, it is as if he were dipping his hand in the flesh and blood of a pig.”

Serving parents

Q: I have lived a care free life. Taking everything for granted. I am 27 now. My parents are old now. I want to serve them as the best son in the whole but I have no clue what to do for a living and supporting them financially. Please pray for me and tell me a wazifa that Allah's helps descends on me.