Dress & Attire

Q: Are women allowed to wear rings on the shahaadah finger (index finger), baby finger or thumb?

Q: Is ear piercing on the top of the ear on the flesh not the cuff permissible?

Q: I would like to know the permissibilty of wearing clothes with animal pictures. For example, a crocodile picture but the picture does not have eyes.

Also, I would like to know the permissibilty of wearing such clothes and reading salaah. If we wear a kurta over it and read salaah, will the salaah be valid?

Q: If one is cutting one's nails, what is the ruling on placing them in the bin and if one recites the Basmalah before cutting nails directly with a bin below, does this entail sin?

Q: I'm 15 years old and I have a small beard. My parents have asked me to cut it saying that I'm too young to keep a beard. What should I do?

Q: Is it allowed to wear wrist watches with diamonds in it?

Q: Is there a masnoon dua to recite when wearing shoes?

Q: For women, what is the correct method of wearing a headscarf i.e. if the scarf is tied to her head and the shape of the head can be seen?

Q:

1. Can a female wear stainless-steel rings that are gold-plated or silver-plated?

2. Besides rings, can a woman wear other jewellery that is not made from gold or silver e.g. earrings, necklace, bangles, etc?

Q: I have these shoes that say Air Max on them. I feared at one point that the way it was written, it could be that it looked like the way if one wrote لله

If I wore these what would be the ruling? What if I wasn’t sure and wore them intending no disrespect. Also, what if I thought they didn’t intend to write that and I would leave the shoes in the bottom of a shoe shelf on top of other shoes?