Miscellaneous

Q:

1. How do you make repentance?
2. hat do you say to Allah when you repent? Say this will be enough? "Allah for give all of my sins"?
3. Do you need to raise your hands like do in dua?

Q: What is the حیثیت of reading kalimas before sleeping?

Q: I would like to find out if it is permissible to read for and blow onto our house pets when they are sick?

Q: If a person has committed backbiting against someone, and wants to make taubah from backbiting, and the person he was backbiting about does not know about it, does one have to go and tell the person I said this and that about you, make maaf, or can one beg forgiveness from Allah and do some good action and send the sawaab to the person?

Q: Iui is intrauterine insemination. In this semen of husband is taken in a vial, it is then injected directly into the uterus of woman. My freind had a female child 10 years after marriage by this procedure, she wants to have it one more time. Is it permissible for her?

Q: When meeting someone after a long time is it sunnat to embrace / hug one another? Is the sunnat for ones head to go towards the right hand side, what other Sunnats have been mentioned regarding the embrace with regards to hand positions etc?

Q: What are some of the rewards for controlling and withholding the emotion and urge of aggression and lust?

Q: Is lying in a joke permissible?

Q: For repentance you need to feel guilty about the sin you committed. I don't feel guilty in my heart, can I verbally say that I feel guilty about the sin, would that be enough? I can say verbally "I regret doing the sin, I shouldn't have done the sin" would that be enough?

Q: Is it permissible to have pictures of the Kaaba and Masjid-e-Nabawi hanging around the house? Also, is it permissible to have pictures of other Masjid’s?