Pregnancy and Parenting

Q: Should a parent be equal to all of their children in terms of finance and gifts? 

For example: There are 4 brothers. No. 1 is a doctor, set up by the father but paid back. No. 2 is in the business with his father as a partner, also paid back. No. 3 is still studying. No. 4 is an aalim and recently started working in the business. The father wants to set no. 4 up eventually. 

Question: Will it be fair if the father sets up no. 4 in the business, without paying back. Basically giving him a business and not giving any other brother the same.

Q: Is it sinful to have a favourite child? Or even two or three out of your children? 

Is this fair towards the others because how must they feel inside with a parent having a favourite?

Q: I wanted to know the Islamic ruling regarding birthmarks. Is it when Shaytaan bites or kisses you? 

Q: If a father gifts his property to one son only instead of all the legal heirs during his life, in this connection is the said gifted property is valid or not under Islamic law? 

Q: How does one bring about shariat law in him and his family?

The wife is working and does not want to wear purdah. All her belief systems are being influenced by shaytaan.

What method and according to Islamic teachings can one use to bring love for Deen upon his spouse and children?

Q: I have been blessed with a bay boy in January 2024, Alhumdulillah! I have with me the belly button which fell from the baby's umbilical cord after a few days when the baby was born. I also have with me his hair which I had got shaved on the 7th day. So my question is:

1. I would like to bury this belly button so called (umbilical cord) and the hair of the baby in the graveyard as I think it would remain safe in the corner of the graveyard in the mud or can I bury it in the grave of my late father? Is is permissible to do this or not? As nowadays there are flats systems so one finds it difficult to get mud everywhere.

2. My family members are saying to drown it in the river as it will be safer there and not in the graveyard. They are saying that if there is a masjid and it has a ground or yard one can get it buried there.

What is the proper way to dispose these body parts like hair, nails, placenta etc. in your opinion?

Q: Is it sunnah to give azaan into a new born baby’s ear and is there any hadith provided?

Q: What is the ruling for parents towards upbringing of their children.

If children are not on the right track, upto what extent is it permissible to be strict or authoritarian towards child-raising? Kindly explain in detail.

Q: Is a water birth permissible?

Q:

1. I had a missed miscarriage at 8 and half weeks of pregnancy. I conceived at a late stage as I was blessed with nikaah much later in my life. I am much devastated with the miscarriage.

My question is, will the miscarried foetus go to heaven or it never existed (as if there was no rooh in it)?

2. Furthermore, I had a dnc done but after three weeks post procedure I'm still bleeding. Please advise on the process for salaah and Quraan.