Joking
Q: Is lying in a joke permissible?
Miscellaneous
Repenting for one's sins
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?
Hanging pictures of Makka Shareef and Madina Shareef in one's home
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?
Whatsapp, BBM, etc
Q: What does mufti saheb suggest regarding the use of whatsapp, BBM etc. Is it not advisable to use, or fine?
IUI fertility treatment
Q: My friend got IUI done after 10 years of marriage and she was blessed with a baby girl. Now she is 1 year old, my friend wants another baby.
Is it permissible for her to get IUI done for 2nd time?
Controlling one's anger
Q: Any wazifa to control my inner anger and frustration?
Going for eye surgery
Q: If someone has eyes with the eyeball not in the centre but it tends to move inside so that it doesn't look normal. Sometimes it becomes a reason for others to laugh. My question is can that perssn take some kind of surgery for this?
Telling someone about the sin's one is involved in
Q: I know we shouldn't advertise our sins. I mean we shouldn't tell others about our sins. I was told if you tell others about your sins, your sins wouldn't be forgiven. Can I able to tell an imam or a scholar so they can advise what to do about my sins?
Learning how to play musical instruments
Q: I want to know if it is permissible for a Muslim child to learn to play a musical instrument such as the organ (electric piano) through classes at home or at a special centre. There is much talk of how music stimulates creativity brain growth and so on. With this in mind would it be haram to permit him to learn? We don't generally listen to music as a family but sometimes we watch (clean) movies or cartoons that have music in them.
Sometimes our son comes home from school and requests a certain song that he heard on the bus or his classmates singing to be played and we oblige by playing the song a few times on the computer. Is this permissible? Also what about allowing small children to listen to nursery rhymes and Islamic songs which have clean lyrics but also music in them - can they do this?
How many times should one repent after committing a sin
Q: If committed a sin, how many times you have to repent? I mean how many times you need ask forgiveness from Allah for a sin? Is once enough?