Going to one's mother's house after giving birth
Q: After giving birth, should the woman remain at her husband's home or go to her mother's?
Nikaah & Marriage Issues
Secret nikaah
Q: I have a boyfriend and we are in a relationship and he is not socially setteld yet so his parents are not willing for nikkah now but we want a nikkah because without it we are making sins and it is haram. We want to make our relationship halal so till he will not be settled properly we want nikkah to avoid a great sins. Can we do a secret nikkah ??
Instilling love for the Quraan in the heart of one's child
Q: My husband and I have been blessed with a baby alhamdulillah. We would like the baby to have finished memorising the Quraan by an early age if Allah wills.
What steps can we take to ensure that the child can begin learning and memorising from an early age? What brain foods would also be good for the child and mother as I’m nursing currently.
Desire for one's child to become pious
Q: My baby boy is almost 2 years old. I'm a single mother. I have a dua and dream that he goes in the right path and becomes very pious or an imam and hafiz. How can he attain that level? Are there any specific duas that I should do and what should I do myself to set these goals?
Acquiring a child through IVF (In Vitro Fertilization)
Q: Is it permissible for the husband and wife to acquire a child through IVF (In Vitro Fertilization)?
Husband's right over his wife's salary
Q: How much right does a man have over his wife's salary which she earns?
Married woman getting married to someone else without divorce from first husband
Q: Apart from divorce, if a married girl escapes and gets married without registration, what are the rules of Islam?
Validity of nikaah if spouses don't perform salaah
Q: If a man and woman love each other but don't engage in haraam, both are Muslim, believe in Allah Ta'ala, the prophets, Quraan as Allah's book etc. but don't pray BUT know it is obligatory, will their nikaah be valid? Will their nikaah be void?
As I have heard that such couples nikaah is not valid if they don't pray before marriage, don't pray up until marriage and after marriage.
Husband paying for first wife's medical aid and not the second wife's
Q: If a man has 2 wives and has medical aid only for one of the wives and his argument is that he had it prior to me marrying him. What is the duty of the husband in the instance?
Making an effort to ensure that one's baaligh son wakes up for Fajr
Q: I have a 16 year old son that cannot wake up for Fajr every day. My wife says to me that’s it’s our responsibility to make sure he gets up. Is it really our duty to ensure that he wakes up for Fajr everyday?
In the past, when I would wake him up, he would say that he is getting up, but most of the time, he would not wake up. Sehri is also a problem, though eventually, he does wake up for sehri. My view is that since he is old enough, if he misses salaah, he will be sinful, not his parents.