Importance of consulting one's elders with regards to marriage

Q: I have found a spouse for myself and a very good one alhamdulillah, however he is from a different culture from me. I have nothing against interracial marriage or different cultures getting married in fact I find it very fascinating. I am scared what my family might say and that they will not accept. My brother is also a mufti and there are people in my area who have married from different cultures but my parents may have a different opinion when it comes to there own family. What should I do to overcome being scared and to be confident to tell my family?

Wife suffering from Epilepsy

Q: I got married recently. It was an arranged marriage. After marriage I came to know that my wife is suffering from Epilepsy (Fits). When i asked her father and brothers they said she never had anything like this before. I even asked my wife but she too denied having Fits in the past. I love my wife a lot. As it was an arranged marriage, everything in this relationship was based on trust. I took her to the best doctor, so as to get the best medicine for her. Even the doctor asked to her parents if she had Fits in the past so that she can give her the right medicine, there also they denied it. 

After few weeks her parents came to my house and accepted of her suffering from Epilepsy, but said she had only one and that too 8 years back, while she was suffering from fever. I was very sad as they have hidden this fact from me.

But still I tried my best and provided her the best of medication. Now after 4 months of marriage, she had another attack of Fits. This second made her quite weak, so much so that she was not even able to walk properly. After this second attack she accepted that she had been suffering from this fits in the past and her family has hidden this fact from me and my family. 

If they would have told this before marriage then I would have got married to her or would have selected any other girl for me. Now I feel cheated by her parents. Her brothers and herself because they all knew everything but still they kept on hiding.

I want to ask in Islamic point of view what will happen if i go ahead and divorce her? Am I allowed to do that or will it be injustice to my wife as she must have lied to me thinking of her parents.

Fluid discharge

Q: I pray that you can respond to my questions on purity, so that I may feel comfort in knowing what to do in my case. It’s difficult because I don’t have immediate access to people of knowledge. 

I am generally healthy, and don't suffer from incontinence of any sort (Praise Allah), but I frequently get build-up of prostatic fluid through the day that comes out intermittently! Is this normal for men? If I don't clear the passage by milking the penis regularly, then I fear something will eventually come out! For me, how it will come out is by it slowly sliding out of the meatus (only when there is a lot of it usually), not like a droplet sitting at the tip or anything, that only happens rarely.  How I know this, is by feeling the lip of the tip, which sticks out a bit due to movement or when the meatus mouth may become moist due to heat or something making its way out. It’s the side of this lip that I feel which is slightly sticky sometimes. I can look down and think I see nothing, but sometimes this annoying fluid settles beneath the surface and accumulates before fractions of the stuff begin to slide out.  If I just look at the tip, then I see a shiny bit surrounding the opening. Sometimes this shininess is extra shiny, and I don’t know if that is due to this sticky fluid drying on it or if this is due to heat or sweat. If this stuff dries on the tip, generally speaking it is hard to notice.

I also have this terrible habit of inspecting the channel of the penis by putting my finger in it and moving it around to determine if the area is dry, but most of the stuff will definitely come out!  This only makes me certain that I don’t even have to look down there and check; I just assume this stuff has come out, as it seems to be my body’s habit to expel this fluid and it is most likely to be the case.

It's hard for me to check my underwear all the time. This liquid is clear and discreet. It comes out very subtly, so it is hard to detect. If one were to have a flow of this stuff exiting due to say sexual arousement, then because of the amount one would see this great amount on his underwear, if his penis made contact with it.

1. When they say that one has to be certain that something has come out of his penis, then does this mean by certainty we have to clearly see a fluid at
the tip or just emerging in droplet form?

2. Because of this build up, I can't be sure if a fraction of it or even just a tiny droplet has come out when I'm having a shower? I think to myself perhaps something has come out; how can I be sure when in the shower or drying myself off? I worry about it mixing with the water on my body which then gets transferred to my towel. Is my towel pure?

3. Should I do wudu for every prayer to be on the safe side and put some barrier between the penis tip and my underwear between the prayers?

The word Lord

Q: In Dutch language the title prenoun for a man is: ''meneer'' which is derrived from ''mijnheer''. The english word for this is: mister, sir, literally ''mijn heer'' means ''my lord''. Is using such words shirk?

Ma'zoor

Q: I get a lot of wet farts. How much times does one have to have them to be counted as mazoor because I get them a lot and I can't keep changing boxers?

Going to a person who is doing ruqya

Q: I had a question about one person who is doing ruqya his name is abdul rauf bin halima there are 1000s of people flocking to him for help with jaado, sihr, evil eye, jinn etc. Now he is in South Africa at the moment and its said about him he spent a lot of time in jamat 4 months etc. He is opening ruqya centers all over to to train the people to do ruqya. So what do our ulama say regarding him? Will it be ok to adopt his methods on ruqya?

Removing hair and cutting nails during haidh

Q: In Talim ul Haq Masaail pertaining to ghusal it says If one is in the state of Hadase Akbar or Janaabat then it is not permissible to remove, cut or break any nails or hair from any part of the body.

Is the above correct because in Fatawa books like Ahsanul Fatawa etc its says its disliked or makrooh e tanzihi to remove, cut or break any nails or hair from any part of the body If one is in the state of Hadase Akbar or Janaabat?

Being scared

Q: I don't know why from a couple of days I am feeling very scared  and my heart keeps beating and I get very scared at night to sleep and I get bad dreams. Can you please tel me why this happens? Please suggest me some solution that I get rid of it and Insha Allah I be well soon.