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Q: Please can you advise me when buy a new house what duas/prayers should be made. That is when you take the keys do you need to do anything and when you actually take occupation what should be done. 

Q: Could I buy a luxury house, expensive cars and going for foreign tours? Is it permissible for a mu'min?

Q: May I please know whether buying flower vases and other items of decorations to decorate one's house amounts to israaf (extravagance)?

Q: Is it permissible to hang frames/carpets with the names of Allah, ayatul kursi etc in one's home?

Q: When building a house, what is the ruling on positioning of toilets and the beds. I am aware that both should not be in qibla direction.

1. Is this from the back and front?

2. Do you need to be slightly off qibla direction or completely in the opposite.

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1. I am soon going to move into my new home. I want to invite my friends and our local Musjid musallees to come to my new home to recite Qur'an and thereafter I will feed them. Is it permissible for me to do so?

2. When one moves into one's new home, what A'maal should one carry out in order to bring blessings in the home?

Q: Is it necessary to burn lobaan before moving into a new house and what is the significance in Islam of burning lobaan?

Q: When we move to a new house or flat, among the first things we do is usually to recite Surah al-Baqarah. Is this practise from the sunnah? Should Surah Baqarah be recited also when we move into a hotel room for a week's holiday?

Q: Is it permissible to have pictures of the Kaaba and Masjid-e-Nabawi hanging around the house? Also, is it permissible to have pictures of other Masjid’s?

Q: What is the ruling if the wife stays with her in laws in the same house, sharing all spaces like the kitchen, bathroom etc? Are the in laws allowed to use her bedroom as they wish? If she is not there can they sleep in the room and let other people in the room? The wife's possessions are still in the room and she is not informed of the people using it.