Who are the aaqilah of a person?
Q: In today's times, who are classified as the عاقلة of a person with regards to paying the blood money for a قتل خطأ?
Miscellaneous
Keeping a Christian as a close friend
Q: I've been friends with a Christian girl for the past two years. She's always been here for me and so she became my favorite. After sometime, I came to realize that it's not allowed to be intimate with an infidel. What could I do, please?
Helping one's mother run her business
Q:
1. I currently live with my mother who runs a business from home, many a times after I return from work she requires that I assist her with her business and this takes up my time for ibaadat and serving deen. Am I sinful in refusing to assist.
Note it is not household chorus but business related.
2. I intend getting married and my mother demands that I should come by every night to assist her with her business, am I sinful if I refuse in this regard as it will take strain on the marriage.
Befriending the kuffaar
Q: Is it permissible for a believer to befriend a disbeliever? What are the Islamic teachings in regard to this issue?
Remembering one's past after making taubah
Q: I have done evil sins which no one knows about and sometimes when my friends talk about those people I feel uneasy in my heart and when I am reading the Quraan, a verse reminding me of the sin and I repented sincerely from the sin. How should I react? Should I pretend I never did it?
Sitting in a car or working in a restaurant where music is being played
Q:
1. Is it permissble to be a passenger in someone else's car if they are playing music before or during the journey.
2. Is it permissible to start a job or to continue working in a job in someone else's shop or restaurant if music is being played inside there.
3. Due to the duff nowadays only being used for the purpose of entertainment and not announcements will it be regarded as a musical instrument and prohibited.
Pictures of skulls, stick figures, snowmen and scarecrows
Q:
1. Are pictures of skulls, stick figures, snowmen, and scarecrows permissible.
2. Are very small pictures and very small videos permissible on mobile phone screens.
3. Is it permissible to build snowmen and scarecrows.
Interacting with a Qaadiyaani
Q: We have asked some people after some authentic proof if they are Qadiyaanis but they are denying it and saying that there is nothing like that but the person who told us about them is a very close blood relation. They are denying all of these. Now we are in a fix as to what to do. Whom should we believe?
The manner of seeking repentance
Q: I want to repent, for the sins I committed, in front of Allah Ta‘ala at the time of tahajjud. Can you please tell me what i should do to repent?
Eunuchs
Q: What are the conditions of eunuchs in Islam in view of the Holy Qur'an and Hadith if they trust whole heartedly and fulfill such as Kalima, Salaat, Fast, Zakaat, Hajj, etc.?