Miscellaneous

Q: In Indian airports, we are required to show our faces for immigration. There is no segregation for women, and many people are around while I reveal my face. What should I do?

Q: I would like to know if someone is scrolling on Twitter and comes across a video of voodoo and watches it out denounced it in his heart, is he still a Muslim?

Q: My friend [24f] makes parda from her brother in law [17m]. However her father's first cousins is her husbands maternal uncles and she doesn't make parda from them. Upon telling her she brought the hadith of brother in law being death and said there is no specific ahadith relating to her having to making parda from her husbands mothers brothers therefore she doesn't have to. Is it true?

Q: Is it kufr to make realistic art of living beings? I know it's haram and major sin but is it kufr?

Q: Is it kufr to mock the way someone smiles.

Q: I would like to know if it is permissible to make colouring books to sell provided that it has no haraam elements in it whatsoever. The books would be marketed to adults specifically as there’s quite a market for it. People find it quite therapeutical and reduces anxiety.

Q: If the wife passes away, can her mother live in the same house with the son in law as she has to take care of the children?

Q: Can you please advise me on the following matter: 

A girl was married and is now divorced from her husband. There was a child (female) from that marriage. The girl is now going to perform Nikah with someone else. 

What is the position/relationship of the child (who is now reaching puberty) to her stepfather? Is the stepfather her mahram or non-mahram?

Q: I have a question regarding milk parents. 

I was conceived by my biological parents with the intention of being adopted by my aunty (fathers sister) as she hadn’t had any children with her husband for 11 years. 

When I was born, I was adopted and grew up in another city with my (new) milk parents. From small I was told about my adoption so it wasn’t something shocking to me. 

I grew up knowing my siblings and visiting my biological parents often, but my milk parents were like my real/main parents and my biological were like my aunty and uncle. 

Now that I’m older and married and my siblings are also older and married and I’m staying in the town I grew up with my biological parents. I hadn’t been there as much and made the khidmat owed to my biological parents. 

My biological parents said multiple times that I should treat my milk parents as my real ones and that they (the biological ones) hold no haq over me. I asked my shaikh what to do and he says that shariah is above everything and that their words or emotions don’t govern what the actual rights to them are. 

So my question is who holds more right over me, the milk parents who raised me or the biological parents who bore me? 

When it comes to khidmat or instruction, who holds more weight? 

And lastly, if they excuse me from khidmat what does it mean?

Q: My wife and I have been trying to fall pregnant for a few years now with no success, and after visiting a number of doctors, we've been advised that our only option going forward is to do an ICSI procedure. 

Is this procedure permissible in Islam?