Miscellaneous

Q:

1. Are English Islamic nasheeds permissible?

2. If there are no musical instruments used but rather the "mouth" is used to imitate the musical instruments. Is this permissible?

Q: What are some reasons behind someone feeling jealous so easily? And how can one change their mind to gratitude and self-satisfaction?

If someone continously feels jealousy unintentionally when they are trying to remove it repeatedly, and they still feel heart hardening, is this still jealousy? I feel it severely maybe because of arrogance or wanting praise and recognition.

Is there any difference between envy and jealousy in Islam?

Q: Can one ask for forgiveness from another human on the day of Mahshar if he could not do it in his life time in this world? 

Q: Majority of the Ummah engages in watching TV, be it movies or shows or sports, at night. Kindly advise as to how this can be eradicated and what are substitutions that individuals and/or families can engage in at night.

Q: My dad is late (may the Almighty grant him jannat). He has left behind 2 sons and 2 daughters. The eldest son lives with his father in law.

After mummy's iddat, it was her desire to perform umrah and her second son took her Alhamdulillah. The elder son wants to take my mother, his wife and his father in law, who is also a widower, for umrah. Will it be permissable for my mother to travel like this in the company of his father in law?

Q: Should we only rely on spritual medicines like zam zam, honey, etc. and not take medicines? I don't know why I think due to my weak faith that what happened if I don't get shifa and I only think of using medical medicines. Am I committing kufr?

I heard the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) used both. Did he always use then in a combined form of both spiritual and physical medicines?

Q: What is the ruling in keeping a cat in the Masjid building and it living there? But it won't be kept in the actual Masjid?

Q: If one has dogs for a valid need, is it necessary that their kennels are a minimum of 40 steps from the home? I have heard this a few times.

Q: It has become a trend amongst our Muslim people where they go on days on end to far away destinations for fishing trips etc. A so-called boys trip, where all types of things happen, from ganja, hukka, etc. to who knows what. Leaving their families all alone at home. What is more, even the so-called ‘Deen Daar, Tableeghi Jamaat brothers, and the like, actually join these people. Saying we need to go out and DE STRESS.

Another fitna is that they have a place where they go (Club House) or one friends house generally after Esha till the late hours of the night to play cards, tunnee, games, etc. with friends. Leaving their families alone at night.

This happens from the old grandfathers going down to the grandchildren. They all have their own clicks and spots to hang out or go on boys trips.

A lot of times these guys can’t make it to the masjid for Fajar Salaah. Is the behavior, to put it mildly, not well beyond INSANITY?

How can a true Muslim sleep in peace in the place where he will be satanically wasting so much funds whilst surrounded by masses of suffering Muslims? Never can one be a Muslim with such a cruel, hard-hearted attitude. Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: “The Muslimoon are like one man. When the eye pains, the whole body is affected. When he has a headache, the whole body is affected.”

Q: Please clarify this matter for us:

1. In the case where a lady gets very sick during pregnancy, and is vomiting and unable to eat properly etc. for months, and hence needs a gap between pregnancies to recover physically and mentally, will it be permissible to utilise the loop as a contraceptive?

2. For normal spacing out of children, i.e. a lady doesn't get very sick or anything but just to space the children out, will using the loop be permissible?