Q: With the escalation in the use of social media we find that people often put up status messages or post pictures with a message addressing a deceased person. For example, a person would post "We miss You, Dad" or "last year this time you were with us" etc. etc. Is this permissible in Islam?
Q: I am the only child left from three siblings. 6 years ago my wife any myself made a decision to move from Cape Town to Gauteng along with our 3 kids. They are aged now 14, 8, 9. My dad passed on two weeks ago which is leaving my mom alone in Cape Town she is disable and not working. I want to know what does Almighty Allah and the Quran order me to do as my wife is refusing to move back to Cape Town and I want to move as I am not happy in Gauteng in any case. I want to move back to look after my mom. She needs me. In my view a wife is replaceable but my mom not. My wife and myself don’t have a “healthy” marriage in either case. Help me I do not know what to do I cannot sleep or concentrate nor do I eat. This is eating me up.
Q: I want to know if one is unable to conceive, are they allowed to get pregnant using another woman's egg (egg donor) in Islam? Please give reference from a learned scholar or fiqh council.
Q: I am getting a lot of bad thoughts about ulama scholars please help me. Would I be sinful? I get bad thoughts about the ulama scholars and they big ulama scholars and I read so much about the photography maslas ulama have different opinions and I read soo much fatwa so I'm getting worried. Some say different things and when I read hadith about picture making I get bad thoughts n images about scholars. Soo i am scared ..what to do will i be sinful.. I try my best to also avoid taking picture n try to become better muslimah. Please help me please would i be sinful for getting bad thought or thinking bad about the scholars.
Q: Will I be cursed or saved from some difficulties in life if I can't forgive my mother? She already passed away several years ago but still I can't forget those times when she was alive that she never made me feel that she loved me, what I felt and feel right now is still HATRED from her, I'm even kind of happy when she passed away because she never made me happy, she always scolded me and more, I have 5 siblings and what she treat others is not the same on how she treated me. It's unfair for me and that's one of the reasons why I felt hatred for her. What I always heard about Islamic lectures is forgive your parents, love your parents especially your mother.
Q: Can we as Muslims repent for even the most heinous sins? I mean anything!!! Any serious sin can be forgiven through true repentance? The word any is important here, it covers any/all/every sin a human being can commit!!! Or is there any limitations to Allah's mercy!
Q: Few days back my brother who is engaged had hijama done, at first only water oozed out and then slowly the dirty blood, the doctor said he had effects of jadoo as there was not much blood in his body and he lay cold and sweating after hijama. Moreover he used to pray very rarely before the hijama but now he is praying regulary alhamdulillah. But now he is against getting married. Please advice as to what we should do.
Q:
1. Is it mandatory to wear hijab for a grown up Muslim woman and what exactly is Hijab?
2. Is it enough to cover her satar (hair and body except the face, hands (fingers)) or is it a compulsion to wear a black colour burkha as we wear in India?
3. What is ruling regarding talking to men of the opposite gender?
4. What if a woman is a civil servant wherein she has to follow a dress code, What is the ruling in such a condition?
Q: Is violence committed in the name of blasphemmy prohibited in Islam?
Q: I have always known that the fragrance of Jannah will be haraam for a woman that does not wear hijab and that it is compulsory on woman to wear it in Islam. However, I never really let that soak in until very recently when I started wearing the hijab. Nobody has ever ostricized me for it and I was gaining confidence and starting to be comfortable about going out with it. I was starting to tell myself that I look better with hijab than without it even though I didn't really believe that. The other day my mother just ruined it all. She kept making little hints but the other day she couldn't handle it any more and told me that I'm becoming too holy and that I don't have to act like an old lady and wear scarf all the time. She said that it's more difficult for women who wear hijab to get married because boys like modern girls. When I began crying she tried to cover up what she initially said by telling me that she only meant I should take it off when sitting privately with friends in a coffee shop etc which made zero sense because obviously there would be male waiters around. She said that she just meant I would feel more comforable and fit in better without my scarf on. I never felt very uncomfortable or odd with it but after she said that I do. She apologized and my father explained to her how we're meant to stick to Allah's commands no matter what etc. The matter was closed and everybody moved past it but I can't get over it. I still wear scarf but now I feel like I look like an old lady in it. I tie it properly and try my best to dress nicely and look neat but she still makes me feel like I look like an old lady and it has broken my confidence like she often does. I am still very hurt by this and want to gain my confidence back but I don't know what to do. I have no idea how to feel about this. What do I do to console myself and is there a dua I can read to be more confident and not care about opinions?