Miscellaneous

Q: I have a query, we have a small plant in our bathroom. Its an indoor plant. Last night my aunt came home and told us to take it away as they do tasbi or zikar. Just wanted some clarity on this.

Q: With the escalation in the use of social media we find that people often put up status messages or post pictures with a message addressing a deceased person. For example, a person would post "We miss You, Dad" or "last year this time you were with us" etc. etc. Is this permissible in Islam?

Q: I am the only child left from three siblings. 6 years ago my wife any myself made a decision to move from Cape Town to Gauteng along with our 3 kids. They are aged now 14, 8, 9. My dad passed on two weeks ago which is leaving my mom alone in Cape Town she is disable and not working. I want to know what does Almighty Allah and the Quran order me to do as my wife is refusing to move back to Cape Town and I want to move as I am not happy in Gauteng in any case. I want to move back to look after my mom. She needs me. In my view a wife is replaceable but my mom not. My wife and myself don’t have a “healthy” marriage in either case. Help me I do not know what to do I cannot sleep or concentrate nor do I eat. This is eating me up.

Q: I want to know if one is unable to conceive, are they allowed to get pregnant using another woman's egg  (egg donor) in Islam? Please give reference from a learned scholar or fiqh council.

Q: Will I be cursed or saved from some difficulties in life if I can't forgive my mother? She already passed away several years ago but still I can't forget those times when she was alive that she never made me feel that she loved me, what I felt and feel right now is still HATRED from her, I'm even kind of happy when she passed away because she never made me happy, she always scolded me and more, I have 5 siblings and what she treat others is not the same on how she treated me. It's unfair for me and that's one of the reasons why I felt hatred for her. What I always heard about Islamic lectures is forgive your parents, love your parents especially your mother.

Q: Can we as Muslims repent for even the most heinous sins? I mean anything!!! Any serious sin can be forgiven through true repentance? The word any is important here, it covers any/all/every sin a human being can commit!!! Or is there any limitations to Allah's mercy!

Q: Few days back my brother who is engaged had hijama done, at first only water oozed out and then slowly the dirty blood, the doctor said he had effects of jadoo as there was not much blood in his body and he lay cold and sweating after hijama. Moreover he used to pray very rarely before the hijama but now he is praying regulary alhamdulillah. But now he is against getting married. Please advice as to what we should do.

Q:

1. Is it mandatory to wear hijab for a grown up Muslim woman and what exactly is Hijab?

2. Is it enough to cover her satar (hair and body except the face, hands (fingers)) or is it a compulsion to wear a black colour burkha as we wear in India?

3. What is ruling regarding talking to men of the opposite gender?

4. What if a woman is a civil servant wherein she has to follow a dress code, What is the ruling in such a condition?

Q: Is violence committed in the name of blasphemmy prohibited in Islam?