Secular Education

Advice for children to learn

Q: Please help me with any dua or wazifa to make the brain strong for reading, understanding and implementing.

1. My 4 year old kid is not learning anything at all and is very stubborn. I believe his mind is not towards studying. Please suggest a wazifa to sharpen his brain to study well.

2. For myself, I am 36 years old and I want an upgrade in my career and want to learn some courses. Please suggest a wazifa so that I can also concentrate on my studies as my brain is also not sharp in studies.

Studying astronomy

Q: "Is astrological study forbidden for us." I mean can we study it just to gain some new knowledge, not meant to use it for fortune telling... Just for getting knowledge about the effect of heavenly bodies on our natural behaviour.

Keeping textbooks containing words that may affect one's beliefs

Q: I am a science student and I have a bunch of math textbooks. These are strictly math textbooks as I understand. In one of the books, the author mentions solving equations in their multiple variable "incarnations". I assume the author means "form" because there is no religious meaning here as far as I can tell. In a different book, the author tells a short biography of a mathematician who was also an astrologer. The presence of such words disturbs me. I would like to know if there is something wrong with me continuing to read these textbooks and can I keep them or not. 

Big bang theory

Q: Keeping in mind that Allah Ta'ala is the power behind everything, can Muslims believe in the following:

1) Global warming, and that people should be environment-friendly.

2) Life in Mars might be possible.

3) People have gone to the moon.

4) The big bang theory.

Schools drill these into students' minds.

Making up a poem

Q: I have an English project at school in which I need a very specific kind of urdu poem. However, I did not find any suitable urdu poem, so I thought of making up a poem based on a false story, or a real story but with false details, just to achieve the requirements of my assignment. My intention is not to report the story in the poem, but to illustrate the details like setting and characters, genre and the language in it. Is this permissible in Islam, or will this be considered a lie?