Oaths & Vows

Q: What is the difference between oath and promise? If anyone puts his hand on the Quran and says this is my promise to Quran that I will not do this work again, it will be considered a promise or an oath?

Q: Before my birth my mother took a nazar/mannat that if Allah Ta'ala grants her a son, she would make her son a Hafiz-e-Quran. But after I grew up my mother didn't take any essential steps to make me Hafiz-e-Quran. Now I am almost 25 years and studying at university. Please suggest me what should I do now?

Q: I have taken an oath. I cannot recall whether I uttered (said it verbally). I cannot even recall whether I only moved my lips (with a humming sound / with no sound or I have made normal sound). In order to take an oath is it mandatory for the person to hear himself? Please advise if my is oath valid. I am really worried. Please advise.

Q: My question is sometimes I intentionally or sometime forced by my inner feeling I say "Allah ki kasam" if I do this act (example: if I eat crisps) Allah should take my soul away / kill me. I am worried because I keep on taking these kind of oaths. Will I die or what would happen to me. I want to come out of this problem of frequently taking oaths.

Q: I have made a promise to Allah that I will not be doing shirk anymore. If I do (a particular member of my family or I will die / Allah should take away my soul). I am worried as I know while making the promise I knew I might be doing it again as I don't have control on my thoughts. I tried to resist myself of not taking the promise but I did. What should I do. I am upset and worried. Please advise.

Q: I have a question regarding oath. I have taken an oath. I cannot recall whether I uttered (said it verbally) the whole statement of the oath or the last few words of the oath and thought the rest in my mind. I cannot even recall whether I only moved my lips with no sound or I have made sound. In order to take an oath is it mandatory for the person to hear himself? Please advise if my is oath valid. Do I have to pay expedition for breaking this oath. I am really worried. Please advise.

Q: I have a question about oath in the name of Allah, if a person writes in a word file about some forbidden acts, (specifically online pornography, going to specific chatrooms etc) not to be done and includes some exceptions to the rules including an exception that states: All other points and events that I may not be able to mention at the moment or may appear to be challenge later on in time may be added any where in this file if needed. finally if person say 100 Oaths of Allah Applies to this document and valid upto for example 31 march 2015. If intentionally this person breaks any or all rules mentioned in the document lets say in November 2014, what will be the kafara for the Oaths, will it be for 1 Oath or 100 Oaths. Secondly, after breaking the Oath, would the Oath still valid or expires after breaking it as this Oath has time limit upto march 2015. Finally, after breaking the Oath first time, it that person do some or all things he listed forbidden in Oath on 2 separate occasions for long period of time, how should he calculate and pay kaffara for that. By writing 100 Oaths of Allah, intention was to make it impossible to commit those sinful things but unfortunately couldn't keep Oaths. According to Hanafi school of thoughts, kaffara for how many Qasams has to be given and how can it be calculated?

Q: In order for a promise with Allah to be valid does the promise have to be said verbally, and what if a person doesn't say it verbally but just says it in his head?

Q: I have taken oath that I will not watch porn but accidentally on Facebook I have a picture of a nude woman displaying her backside parts of her body. Is my oath broken and do I have to pay kaffarah. I don't earn so if my oath is broken so can I fast for 3 consecutive days as I can't feed the poor because I don't earn and still studying and what should be the niyyah for the fasts?

Q: I have made a mistake and I don't know what to do. This morning my mom told me to eat my vitamins but I didn't want to because I have heard that those brand of pills might have something that might be derived from animal products. So I wanted to make sure before I took anymore but I have OCD and I doubt everything. So I didn't tell anyone. Today after school she told me that I didn't take them and she is always worried about my health and stuff so I lied and said I did know it was bad I just knew she would tell me to take some right away if I didn't and by accident I said I swear to god I did. I regretted it as soon as it came out. I didn't mean to and now I am very worried. I didn't want to say that it just came out. I feel so sorry but I don't know what to do. I am going to try to never say anything like that ever again and I will try to not lie about taking pills anymore. I am menstruating right now and so I can't do a prayer of repentance. I don't know what to do? I feel very bad about what I said. I will try my very hardest to never say it when I am lying ever again. What do I do. Please help. I am very worried.