Miscellaneous

Q: What is the status of cats in Islam, is it Sunnah to keep them? Is there any reward attached to keeping cats?

Q: What is the shariah ruling on the permissiblility and impermissiblility regarding plastic surgery?

Q: My brother and I had an argument. I forgive him but he refuses to talk to me. Please advise what should I do in a case like this.

Q: What should I do when I have cheated in Quran hifz and I have only learned 20 parahs. Now my teacher wants to take tests from me. If I tell the truth it would mean great disrespect to my family. I am very depressed.

Q: Can I keep an an owl as a pet? What does shariat say about it?

Q: Are we allowed to make dua for non Muslims? For example, when speaking to nurses/cashiers and if they did us a favour can we say God bless you?

Q: I have a question regarding the trimming and cutting of trees. I live in an apartment building which has a few large trees on the property.

Is it advisable to significantly trim a large tree (which will decrease it's size significantly but alleviate the inconvenience caused by the tree to flat owners)?

Is it advisable to significantly trim a large tree (which will decrease it's size significantly in order to decrease maintenance costs associated with looking after the tree)?

Is it advisable to cut down a large tree to make way for additional parking?

Is it advisable to cut down a large tree in order to decrease maintenance costs?

Q: What are the duties of children towards their parents in Islam? 

Q: Is it halaal to edit educational videos for women on how they can improve their physical and mental health? It's an educational channel but I am a man so can I edit their videos which are educational and soceity need it?

Q: Gheebah is a very great sin. الغيبة اشد من الزنا.

So lots of people take it lightly and will still end up speaking bad about people and ask that person forgiveness afterwards etc.

When a person speaks bad regarding another person, if it falls under gheebat, the persons good deeds goes to the person he has spoken ill about. Now if he asks that person forgiveness, even if the person forgives him, will he get his good deeds back? Or will it be such that he can now ask Allah for forgiveness as the person has forgiven him, but he'll have to restart his good deeds?

I feel that people don't realize the gravity of the sin of gheebah, and take it very lightly. Please advise. I'm not an aalima so I am afraid if I'm thinking wrongly so I dislike saying anything regarding it incase I am erroneous in this regard.