Miscellaneous

Q: Is it compulsory for a Muslim man to keep a beard when his father is strictly forbidding him from doing so? What should a man do in this condition?

Q: When one plays poker without money involved for fun, is this allowed in accordance to sharia law?

Q: I'm working in animal an animal hospital and  sometimes we got patients like horses in very bad conditions in pain so we use a drug that can kill in seconds. Is there anywhere in quran or hadith or shariya that we shouldn't kill these kind of patients that are in pain?

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?