Q: I am a very doubtful person and I keep doubting myself over impurity. I have a few questions please help me make my life easier on me.

1. We take a shower in bathtub and during wudhu I wash my feet in there. On one side of the tub water collects and we have to drain it by pushing it with our feet towards the drain. So does my wudhu or ghusl qualify or do I have to wash then drain with feet and then wash again?

2. While washing my hands some soap which I had put on my hand touched a part of my hair. From the shoulder as my hair was falling off the shoulder. Does my hand become impure if it touches the soap on my hand which I had applied?

3. After Intimate relations between couples if after that you touch your phone or switch with that hand does it become impure. If impurity is dried off but hands are not washed and you touch it. Does it become impure if you touch other things? And if someone else touches the same things with wet hands, does that other person become impure?

Q: My question is about divorce. Me and my wife had a fight about 8 months ago and she was continuously asking for divorce at that very moment. We were both very angry. I told her ok I give you divorce and included both my and her name when I said it. Then she asked me to move out. I moved out of the house next day and have lived away from her ever since. During the last 8 months we have spoken so many times and we have been wanting to get back together. But we had fights also over the last 8 months. So my question is when I told her that I divorce you but moved out of the house next day and didn't spend 3 months with her under the same roof, is the divorce valid or not? Also when I said it we were both in anger and fighting.

Q: I have a graze on my front private part, a bit of skin came off. There is now a build up of water\pus there. The water\pus stayed within the wound and I prayed Asr and Maghrib with the same wudu. I prayed Esha late and when I checked the wound I noticed the water/pus had flowed beyond the wound. I can't be sure if it soaked through my underwear and onto my trousers. I just changed my underwear but wore same trousers to pray. I can't be fully sure it soaked through. I just changed them due to precaution. I have these doubts always.

Q: If a working lady got divorced or her husband died, can she continue her job without doing iddat to financially support herself?

Q: I want to know what is the difference between gunaah, khataa, laghzish, kotaahi and kusoor?

Q: Please advise if the sale of the following is permissible and the income halaal:

(1) Secular textbooks on topics like engineering, mathematics, architecture, business, pharmacy, fitness etc. that contain animate images. Sometimes the satr of men and women may be exposed in these images. I do not have the ability to note the nature of every image in these textbooks.

(2) General 'Non-Muslim' clothing, like jeans, T-shirts, skirts, shorts, swim wear, colourful male clothing, high heel shoes, general tight-fitting clothing etc. If some of these items are to be worn as non-Muslims generally do, then the satr will naturally be exposed.

(3) Clothing that has animate images.

(4) Clothing with large textual inscriptions and logos.

(5) Male and female underwear. Not lingerie. (6) Rings and jewellery that are impermissible to wear (like imitation rings).

(7) General permissible items that have animate images on them. For example, some cell phone cases, branded stationery items, children hand watches.

(8) Teddy bears, toys with animate images, figurines etc.

(9) To sell medicine containing (intoxicating) alcohol when suitable alternatives exist.

I currently own the following and want to know if they can be sold, or whether they should be destroyed:

(10) Comic books that consist almost entirely of animate images. The satr of the comic characters are sometimes exposed.

(11) A PlayStation 2 video game console. It has multiple uses and not just for playing haraam video games.

[I do not know if my customers are Muslim or Non-Muslim.]

Q: Is it right that if a pregnant woman reads or talks about great persons of Islam the child in the womb will be born as such?

Q: The response of Muslims to legislation and actions of the government that harm Muslims within the country and outside is to start a petition to get the government to stop their proposed action. This now seems to be the default Muslim position. If you ask them whether they made Istighfaar, Du'a, performed Salatul Hajat, they would say no. In any case, there is little or no evidence that such petitions make a difference. The outcome is almost always the same. Based on the above my question are as follows: 1. What is the point of Muslims drawing up and/or signing petitions? 2. What examples do we have from the Seerah of how Nabi (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) dealt with oppression against the Muslims from the people of Makkah?

Q: My husband and I are in a financial problems and with the result contacted companies that we deal with to pay them off slowly. The white companies seem to agree but unfortunately our Muslim so called "Friends " are the ones that went ahead with legal procedures with nothing to lose. What if I decide to round up the existing stock I have, sell out and cash up to help me live for the next few months. How will I pay them back?

Q: If a man keeps bad faith for his sister in law although, he did not practically commit anything, but shows his interest in her verbally while communicating with her. Does this effect his nikaah in anyway?