Miscellaneous

Q: Is playing air hockey halaal?

Q: On Twitter, there's a social media account where a person anonymously receives and posts stories to his followers of peoples’ samoosa runs. He claims that the stories are anonymous and he has inspired many people. The female fans flock over his stories and get emotional if the story doesn't end well and create fantasies of their own lives when they read a good story. He has posted 128 stories over 3 years. Recently, he posted a picture of a car of someone who saw a girl in a random car and wanted to track her down so he posted that picture for his followers to identify the person. Is it permissible to take pictures of strange women and post them on the internet for such purposes? Is it permissible to continue posting such stories when this is the lengths people will go to?

Q: I play video games and also watch game streams. Peoples often say this "I m GOD at this game","You have GOD like aim","he is a GOD at this game or he is GOD of this game","you are God" etc. Is all that considered as kufr words?

Q: Is a woman's foster children (i.e. the children she breastfed) who are female mahram for her biological brother?

Q: There is a lot of depression in our home. What is the best thing to do?

Q: If we backbite people, will we ever enter paradise if we did not apologize to the people but repented to Allah for the people to forgive us for backbiting?

Q: Is it permissible to consume lac powder (medicinal form of shellac)? Lac powder is used in unani medicine to treat obesity issues. 

Q: There's a game called Zepeto. It is a dress up game in which one's face is cartoonized. I gave this character my name and my face got cartoonized. While playing it, the game got stuck and a Christmas dress was highlighted so I thought that maybe one has to first wear this and then the game would progress so I kept clicking on it then found out it was some error. Is this imitating kuffaar? I had these thoughts in my head that its better not to play this game at all. Does this make one a kaafir?

Q: Where should one's gaze be when driving a car, especially when living in a non-Muslim country where women hardly wear burqa or niqaab?