Mother being abusive to her children

Q: Is it permissable to leave the home of your mother unmarried? I have a 2 year old daughter and I am a single mother. I live with my mother, brothers (1 of which is disabled) and a daughter. My mother has been emotionally abusive towards myself and siblings most of our lives. She has the behaviour of a narcotic and lives her life believing that bad things are sent to her from people doing dirty work. She even blames myself, siblings and even her own family of sending things to her. We've tried speaking to her but she takes offence of anyone offering her advice. I would like to know is it wrong to leave her home as a Muslim unmarried woman in order to protect my daughter from having to endure the same abuse and bad duahs put upon her? And also to protect myself and ensure a happier life for my mother as well as myself? May Allah protect us from the bad duahs, and guide us to make the right choices and May Allah guide and protect my mother too, and grant her ease, comfort contentment and happiness. 

Inheritance

Q: We are 3 brothers and 4 sisters, father and mother have passed away. Father did not do any wasiyah or will.

  1. We want to sell fathers property, which is land plot, value will be approximately 65 lakhs (six and half million rupees). How do  we divide the share?
  2. After father passed away I have bought a piece of land and a house next to my fathers plot, very cheap at that time. Now the value is much more. Do I have to give a share to my brothers and sisters?
  3. On my fathers plot I have built a house with my own money. My brothers did not pay any money and my two younger brothers were living  together with my mother and two sisters. I used to help for food for my mother, sisters, brother and medicines for my mother. One of my brothers who is married used to work and help a little bit for food and bills. Now we will break this house and sell the material and will the share the value of the plot among the three brothers? Is this right? That house cost me lot at that time, but since it is unused now its value is like scrap. (very less) Do I have to give a share from this house to my brothers and sisters?
  4. I was working in Saudi Arabia and  living with family there, regularly helping the them for food etc. I am living in England. I have paid all expenses for my two sisters and 2 brothers to get married. I have helped one brother by giving money to start his transport business. I never took any profit or the money I have helped. I have helped to my second brother with money to come to Saudi and then England to work and  settle there. 
  5. After father passed  away I have bought some other property with my own money in another town? 2 plots one shop and one flat, no income is coming from this property.
  6. After father passed away, one of my younger brothers settled in England - later in RSA and bought his own property and he is well settled, he has his own house and a small business. 
  7. The  brother in  India also has his own  house and a small business.
  8. I am the elder one living in England. I don't have my own house in England, I am living on rental property and  still  working. If I sell all my property I can not buy half a house.
  9. My property is considered as a whole or each one is separate? The one I  have bought after father passed away is mine?
  10. All this property is considered as a sharing for all? If all property is considering as a whole then what about my brother's property in Africa and what about my other brother's House and business in india? Is it their own  property? And what about my property which I  have bought with my own money after father passed away?
  11. Mother did not have any property on her name. Only some gold she had which was distributed among brothers and sisters.
  12. My father did not give the share of their sisters when his father passed away. They three brothers have distributed the property among themselves. Now when we sell my fathers property, do we have to give my fathers sisters share to their children (my  father and his three sisters and two brothers have passed away)?

Performing full Salaah when visiting one's husband's hometown

Q: Recently I have got married to a boy who lives approximately 100 miles away from me (more than shari' safar distance). However he is working in my hometown until after Ramadhaan but still holds his hometown as his watn-e-asli. We live together in my hometown. My question is that as I haven't moved to his hometown and consider myself as a resident of my hometown until Ramadhaan. Do I have to perform qasr or itmaam when we visit his family in his hometown?

Joining the police force

Q: If a Muslim joins the Police Force or even Community Police Forums and other crime fighting groups within the law with the intention to eliminate fitnah, will there be any reward for it if he is killed while doing so? Will he become shahid?

Walimah

Q: I am from Durban and getting married in Cape Town and therefore cannot have a walima within 3 days. Is it permissible to have a walimah 3 weeks later?

Being in seclusion with a na Mahram female in a lift

Q:

  1. When I was in an elevator/lift in Makkah together with a Saudi man, 2 women in full hijab and niqab entered the lift.The Saudi man got upset and chased them out. I used to often be alone in the lift with women and used to be unsure what to do. Is it  permissible to be alone with a woman in an elevator or what should I do in such case?
  2. If my seat on the plane is next to a Ghair Mahram woman, is it ok to sit next to them?

Baseless messages

Q: I recieved the following text message, is it compulsory  for me to forward the message to others in my contact list, because he has taken a oath, what does  shariah say regarding such a message?

A message from a brother in Deen; (Name was mentioned here) from London (England).

Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.

My dear brothers & sisters, I make an oath with you in front of Allah (swt) and I leave this as an amaanah with you until the Day of Judgement. If you opened this message (& read it) I ask you to please send to all your contacts. I ask you to please make dua for a good friend of mine (Name was mentioned here) that Allah (swt) gives him shifaa'a. He is a young man who has a very aggressive form of brain cancer, the hospital sent him home and informed him and his family that the cancer is not responding to the chemotherapy. I therefore ask you in the name of Allah (swt) not to close this message before you have sent it to at the very least half of your contacts, because one day you too will need dua and an oath (amanah) makes the mountains shake. Please do dua as Allah will hear someone somewhere. Wherever you are.