Keeping small fish as pets
Q:
1. Is it permissible to keep a small pet fish (less than the size of my finger)?
2. Is it haram, makrooh, etc?
Miscellaneous
Going for swimming lessons to pools with no segregation between men and ladies
Q: What do our Ulama say about sending kids or youth or adults to swimming pools or gyms where there are mixed ladies and men with no segregation and improper attire? Is a boy or girl, who are not baligh, allowed to learn swimming lessons in this environment? Please kindly advise?
Responsibilities of a daughter towards her mother
Q: What are the responsibilities of a daughter, who is an only child, towards her mother, who is a single parent?
Do any of these responsibilities change upon the daughter getting married?
What are the rights that her mother has over her?
Using a continuous glucose monitor
Q: I am, as per blood results and my doctor, on the brink of Type 2 diabetes. One of the options to try and reverse this is to use a continuous glucose monitor. What is the position with this in terms of ghusl?
The patch is kept on for 14 days at a time and then changed. Please advise what is the position in terms of ghusl as if we are required to remove this in ghusl then it cannot work as each patch costs almost R1500 per 2 weeks.
Reciting Quraan in a room with images of animate beings
Q: Is it permissible to recite Quraan in a room with images of animate beings?
Attending one's children's awards day in a church
Q: My children's awards day will be held in a church. Will it be permissible to attend?
Using nasheeds as a background sound for adverts
Q: I have a business selling Kurtas. Is it permissible to use a nasheed with no musical background or impermissible voice in the background for the adverts. Is it permissible to use Arabic poetry without any impermissible voice or meaning as well?
Fulfilling the command of one's mother first
Q: If the commands from your parents are contradictory, who do you obey?
Forming a lift club with female passengers
Q: Is it permissible for a Muslim male to form a lift club to work from Overport to Phoenix with 2 passengers, one being a male and the other a female whereby the costs are split. The male is Muslim and female is non Muslim? So total passengers in car are 3. Driver male, and passengers 1 female and 1 male.
Making tawbah after committing zina
Q: I committed zina with a prostitute two days ago. After that I can't sleep peacefully because I've done a major sin of Islam. I even thought about suicide because I am a zani now. Is my name a zaani forever in Islam? I don't know what's happening to me. How can I face my future wife? Please help me.