Q: How to deal with people who lie about you, tarnish your image, hurt you and deprived you of your basic rights. They constantly taunt you and pick faults in you? How to stay firm in faith when you see a liar and deceptive people to be successful in life while truthful and honest ones suffer?
Is continuously praising oneself and thinking low of others permissible in Islam?
Q: We are baaligh women, and our ears are not pierced yet. Now we wish to have our ears pierced, but we cannot find a single lady to do it for us. In this situation, can we get our ears pierced by a male?
Q: My neighbor brought a cat from somewhere. But they did not feed the cat properly. So my mother gives food to the cat. The children of the family abuses the cat to the point that the cat may die any time if it stays in that house. So can I take the cat from them and give it to someone else without their permission? They throw the cat here and there and hold it by its neck. The cat will not survive if kept with them.
Q: If a shop owner purchases items with murat (animate pictures) and/or female pictures on the packaging, sells these products and advertises them, will he be sinful?
If we should be covering these things, please can Hadhrat Mufti Saheb advise how.
Q: There is a practice of placing beetle traps in beehives in order to control the pest from inhabiting the beehive. The trap contains oil which is used to drown the beetles.
Is this allowed in order to control the pest?
Q: I bought a new house, and the qiblah direction is slightly towards the right however the toilets face north also but straight.
Q: Husband and I are divorced. When it comes to the baby... who should he liase with regarding her wellbeing, visitation and her needs for the month? Should he contact my parents or should he contact me?
Q: If I ask someone to bring me water or to give me water, is it haraam for them to say no?
Q: Is my 2.5 year old toddler allowed to see my breast?
I have a 3 week old baby and my milk supply is low. I have been advised by lactation specialist to let baby suckle as much as possible to increase my supply, minimum is 30 min every 2 hrs. But my toddler only sleeps 1 hour some days. I am alone during the day and nowhere to put my toddler every 2 hrs.
So my question is, am I allowed to breastfeed my baby in front of my toddler?
Q: Is it appropriate for my husband's elder sister to do cupping for him on his body as she is holding and touching his bare body even though it is not his satr?
There are males who are more convenient to go to in the area we live in but now he is traveling 30 minutes out.