Q: Is smoking haram or not? Is it just like drinking.

Q: I borrowed money to buy a vehicle (with an agreement to pay back a much higher amount) i took full ownership of the vehicle, the outstanding amount is the extra amount. What should we do?

Q: Does a few miniscule grains of iron dust (grains are less that 0,5mm) affect the validity of the ghusl or wudhu? Such grains are mostly on ironware like housekeys or after doing some ironwork a few stay on the hands even after washing. You can notice them best if you hold your hands against the sunshine then you see them blinking. Few days after ghusl I notiticed few such miniscule iron grains, you can hardly notice them unless light falls on them so that they blink. The grains are less than 0,5 mm. Seems to me that they are kind of unavoidable especially when walking barefeet on floors etc.

Q: Is it permissable to pray in multi faith prayer rooms, such as the ones they usually have at airports? These rooms are mostly used by Muslims but also some non-Muslims use them for praying and apart from Islamic material they also contain bibles and books of other religions. The question came to my mind since, if I remember it correctly, we are not allowed to enter into buildings of worship of other religions?

Q: If a couple are having a discussion on the fone on various issues including divorce then the husband says "you are free to do anything" by which he intends regarding wife's career, then will nikah be affected? Like in Urdu if you say "tumazad ho" then sareeh divorce happens. The couple are pakistani, live there and had the discussion in both urdu and english.

Q: Wanted to find out if its permissible to frame photos of people for other people also sometimes Hindus bring Bhagwans for framing and Jesus pictures also. Jews bring rohsha shana things to be framed like yarmoka and traditional artifacts.

Q: My question is if somebody intends to expiate an oath by buying ten clothes for ten different individuals and places these clothes in a container/box (like a recycling one, but for clothes) which is supposedly for charity (outside a musalla). Is this acceptable?

Q: An ignoramus told me that a hadith says that if you never get married, your funeral or janaza will be invalid. Does a hadith exist in any collection that mentions this or something similar to this? If so, please give the reference and explanation of it?

Q: I work in Fort McMurray, Alberta and my home city is Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The road distance from Fort McMurray to Calgary is around 700KM and flight duration is little over an hour. I work for 10 days and then take 4 days off. In this condition, would my Salaah be qasar at Fort McMurray and full while I am at home for 4 days?

Q: What does Islam say about transsexualism / transgenderism? Is gender identity disorder / gender dysphoria the result of sin? I can not act/live/ be a girl I tried so many times but I couldn't. if I go with the decision to change my gender will I be cursed by Allah? Is Undergoing gender changing operations haram?