Advice

Difficulty in exams

Q: Please help me out with verses for success in exam for a child having difficulty to interpret and comprehend exam questions. He has a problem putting it to paper. I got all the other duas for exams. Is there any verse he can keep with him in his bag when writing?

Marital problems

Q: My mum got married to a divorced man 26 years back. Well my father now is 63 years old, talks to girls in front of my mum, give his card to them and asks them for dinner and has bad intentions which I can't even say. I am his daughter. We all know and I have myself saw him walking and touching ladies hands, gazing at them, watching porn videos and asking my mum to have anal sex. My father knows that Islam declared these thing haram but he does not have sense of it. He does not perform namaz. It seems that he is totally out of religion, he is a very very bad person. I don't even like him. Sometimes he says I will go out with girls have diner and will do anal sex when I get a chance. Many things I have herd myself. My mom says I spend my whole life with him bearing his bad words, abuses, his hand when he beats her, his belt etc, still he is like this as if she means nothing to him. He also makes fun of her. My mum is a sugar and blood pressure patient and sometimes she feels like her brain will burst. I love her and can't see her this way. My brothers are not helping mother and they are not interested. They shout at her. Only I am my mum's shoulder. Please tell me what should I and my mum do? It is getting out of control.

Waswasas

Q: I have been getting shaitaani waswasas for a while now. I have read some duas and prayed to Allah for protection. But in a day I keep getting them 3-4 times. And these waswasas are so bad that I will prefer dying than speaking of it. I am very afraid. I am afraid that I may commit shirk or kufr if these waswasas keep coming in my mind. Please help me in this matter. Provide me some ways to get out of this situation.

Dating

Q: I have a problem and it's hard. I really can not handle this feeling anymore. I really try to focus on salaat and dikr. But it is not enough. I have no one to talk to besides Allah Ta'ala. I want to get married and I even tried muslim dating sites. After some emails I met someone he told me that he wants to come home. I told my mother after couple days. He said I could never be his wife but he liked me and he wanted to date me more. I didn't do anything with him so I got scared and broke the contact with him. It was the little hope I had that was destroyed and I feel angry and sad and stupid. My father is in bad health he can't search for me and my brothers also can't because they dont have the time. So I am forced (thats what i feel) to date men only with the intention to get married. But they want other things and I can't do that. Am I weird not wanting sex. They call me old fashioned And they say they dont trust me because I am almost 31. I just can't take this anymore. I don't have someone I can ask for advise. Please give me yours. I don't want anything just some advice because I don't know why I am here and why I feel so much pain. It really kills me inside. I want to end this. I know these days are hard to do things in a halaal way but when halaal is really hard I am afraid I will do haraam.

Premarital relationships

Q: I am a divorced woman. My question is about courting in Islam. What is the steps one should follow when considering courting? I want to follow a correct procedure as when I got married before, my father did not allow any courting. Should the guy want to see me he was to come home, as a result I barely knew him and ended up abused and divorced a year later. Please advise.