Miscellaneous

Q:

1. Is it allowed to keep cats as pets inside the house?

2. Do we get reward?

3. In one of your fatwa's you told "Don't keep cats"? Is there is any reason behind it?

4. Which pets are allowed?

Q: Is there any duration mentioned for which Ajwah dates should be taken for shifa?

Q: I am a 22 year old male. 2 years I was in love with a girl and then we broke up. I was deeply in love with her so my freind suggested that I go to a magician (peer) so I went to a Shia magician and he told me to do these things:

1. Put sand outside the house of the one I love

2. Put one date (kajoor) inside mud

3. Put your photographs inside honey

4. Put one big stone on a taweez

5. And he gave me one human like page and told me to put it inside some graveyard and put a thread in its throat.

I have done all these things  but after 1 month I felt that I am doing sihr so I decided stop. I called the magician and told him that I dont want her anymore. He told me to drop all the things in water. I dropped the honey in water, the taweez in water, but the date (kajoor) is still inside the mud and the page is inside the graveyard. My mission was not completed and the girl didnt come back. There was no harm caused to that girl. So now I want to repent. 

1. Do I have to remove the date (kajoor) from the mud?

2. Do I have to remove the page from the graveyard? I remember the graveyard but I don't remember the exact place where i put it.

3. How do I repent and what do I do?

Q: I embraced Islam a few years ago. When I was a non-muslim, I was quite a well-known figure and there are pictures of me everywhere. After I embraced Islam, I tried my best to delete what I could, but it is impossible to delete all. There are hundreds of people who might have my pics and I wouldn't even know about it. So is it a sin for me? 

Q:

1. When will Jihaad be “Fardh Ayn”(obligatory on every Muslim)?

2. What is the meaning of “Fardh Ayn”?

3. What is the purpose of Jihaad?

Q: Is it permissible to get shots and vaccines done? 

Q: Is cupping considered as a sunnat or is it only when one has a health problem to treat when it would be considered as a sunnat?

Q: Can we use qur'ah (drawing lots) to decide?

For example: There were three hotel rooms in different floors. We were three families. So we put the names of the rooms on small pieces of paper and asked the the people to pick a paper and whatever room number he gets, he will have to stay in that room. Is it ok?

Can we apply the same principle in the other places?

Q: I was asked by a girl on WhatsApp to come to a place to commit zina with her. She told me that

* she will send a car to pick me up

* she will give me money of 25,000 if i did it for her

* she will book a five star hotel for me and told me its completely secret and no one will know

I resisted and told her that I will not do it. I also told her to fear Allah and I blocked her.

My question is that, will this come under getting rid of zina when a beautiful girl calls for it or is it only when a girl calls us home or to place where we are alone?

It was really difficult to resist my self but I did alhamdulillah. Will I come under those special people whom Allah doesn't ask hisaab kitaab? 

Q: What is the rulling about zaalims (oppressors), can you explain the definition of an oppressor?