Miscellaneous

Q: Is it permissible to sleep exposing ones satr and walk around the house with your satr exposed and you have children?

Q: Is it a sunnah to perform cupping on certain days?

Q: What is the reason behind burning loban or charcoal on a Thursday? And do you burn after Asr or after Maghrib?

Q: I just want to ask that lipotrispy and cosmetic nose surgery are permissible in Islam? My is nose is fat and flat and I am in habit of pulling of my lips some time which result in bleeding and now it size is quite bigger.

Q: Can Muslims use medicine which is gelatine coated like vitamin E, fish pills, etc?

Q: I want to know the concept of kaneez/loundi in Islam. Is this rule still applicable like the previous age? Or that was for the present time? If this practice has been stopped then how? What does the Qur'an say about it?

Q: What is the correct way of greeting? Assalamu alaikum or Salam alaikum or Assalam alaikum?

Q: Is "chipping" a car (i.e paying a company to change the software on a car, to make the car faster) permissible? Or would this fall under wastage of money?

Q:

1. Photography has been prohibited in Shariah.  This being so, how could one even fulfill his Haj/Umrah, as photograph is a mandatory requirement for passport/visa/ID card during the pilgrimage.
2. Today, video telecasts are being used in Da'wah activities all over the globe.
3. Please list what are the permitted forms of photography/videography allowed in Shariah, with regard to today's world we live in.
4. Should we not resort to Ijma'a and Qiyaas for arriving at a solution to today's problems our Ummah faces, if we do not find solutions in Al Qur'an and Al Hadith?

I request your answer in detail.

Q: I want to be a surrogate mum. I really want to help sumbody who desperatly wants a baby. Is it halaal in Islam?