Miscellaneous

Q: For men and women, what is the appropriate and sunnah clothes to wear when one sleeps? Should the satr be covered when sleeping or can a man sleep with a t-shirt and shorts for example?

Q: Are we allowed to consume medications containing ethanol, e.g. cough syrups and tinctures and so forth.

Q: We've been affected by sihr and bad eyes for years and its been just over 5 weeks that I am reciting Surah Baqarah weekly in our house... The house is huge so I recite sometimes from the rooms and sometimes central.

What I've noticed is strange.. Cupboards are just starting to break, I feel dizzy and sick with terrible aches. My husband cannot stay alone, he feels jinn presence. I always hear these cupboards shut in almost every bedroom every night and I take it these jinns are there whilst we are sleeping.

We've tried everything from a learned aalim treatments; spraying water to playing the adhaan recorder. What else can I do and why is this still happening? Please advise further.

Q: Is it permissible to keep a taxidermy - e.g. a person caught a live fish and he wishes to frame that fish... or he went hunting and wishes to keep the (trophy) head of the animal in his lounge.

Would this by any chance fall under the hukm of tasweer?

Q: I would like to make royal icing biscuits. Are we allowed to make unicorns and animals or doll shapes with closed eyes or no eyes? Or should we not make those shapes at all and only make flowers etc?

Q: There is a dispute between my mother and I regarding the cat which I keep in my house. My mother wants me to remove the cat from the house, whereas I want to keep the cat, and this causes us to fight.

I live separately with my wife and I am not even living with my mother, yet she has made a huge fuss for me to remove the cat from the house and I am not willing to do that.

Please guide me as to what I should do? We have extreme love for cats, but now my mother seldom visits our home and only comes perhaps twice a month.

Q: There's been a debate about the different forms of weed/cannabis that can be taken. Apparently smoking it is different from eating it in a brownie or maybe a gum form. Is this allowed? Or is any form of this product permissible?

Is it allowed for medical purposes? Maybe anxiety/depression etc.? Please advise .

Q: Is it permissible to train or practice Karate?

In Karate, people normally give a short bow as a greeting. Is this permitted?