Advice

Stray thoughts

Q: I feel that a person will come and take me away from Islam. He will misguide me and I will be misguided. I am so scared ( afraid) that I will loose my faith and a misguided person will come and misguide us. I don't know what to do? It's too complicated for me.

Opinions and comments of people

Q: Sometimes I realize this bad feelings from people about me and I sometimes simply don't know why, I feel guilty when nothing simply happens to me and I just have this strange look and behavior that I myself don't like about me  and also I just feel low about myself. I am so confused. Its is creating confusion in me and it is causing people to think and feel different things about me. Please is there any duah or thing I can do Islamically?

Bid'ah practices

Q: Please help me with a dilemma that I have encountered since my recent second marriage to a most amazing man with two children whom I love and treat as my own. I have encouraged the youngest child to start reading his salaah albeit one a day only. The problem is that they are caught up in strange rituals that I do not understand nor that I wish to be part of.

1. The many meeladhs that they conduct with salami being recited at the home of relatives.

2. The mother of the 2 boys has requested that they get green strings during the time of Muharram to wear on their wrists?

Should I be quiet and pray that Allah (Ta'ala) guides them if this is wrong? I feel as if this is going to cause my husband and I to become distant because of our differences. Please tell me what I should do. Jazakallah khair.

Husband going for one year jamaat

Q: A sister is asking that her husband wants to go for jamaat for one year and she can't even stay away from him for two months without being close to him at night. She does bad things alone without her husband when he is not there. She can't control herself. She tried to fast but because of her health her doctor told her to eat. She is very weak.

Marital problems

Q: A sister is saying that her husband is not coming close to her at nights and that whenever she ask him he refuses. He wasn't like this before. He doesn't show any interest in her. She has two babies. It's been more then many months now. She says that she starts to feel that its something in her that maybe is unattractive. She said she feel shes is not married. She makes food and takes care of her children and also cleans the house. Her husband is only on the phone, don't like her to even hug him, says stay away. She misses her days back when they were newly married. He don't even like to sit and talk to her.

Rizk being extended after marriage

Q: A brother is struggling with a job. I have always been favoured by Allah Ta'ala. As soon as I got married my rizk was granted and as my family grew so Allah Ta'ala increased my rizk. This is anecdotal evidence from my experience. Based on this can I encourage the brother to marry and in turn his rizk will be extended?

What is the sunnatullah (sunnah of Allah SWT)? Please explain.

Home industries

Q: I have remarried and have always been the breadwinner in the home in my previous marriage as well. I am now currently pregnant and wish to just be a housewife, what can I do? My ex husband does not look after his two kids financially so therefore I also need to also work? I need advice as a muslim woman what must I do? I feel trapped in the workplace.

Haraam relationships

Q: My question is about girlfriend boyfriend relationship. I have a girlfriend and I do love her and she loves me too. My questions are as follows:-

1. Is it permissible in Islam to love a girl? (If we truly love her, without having any need or desire and want to truly marry her Insha Allah)

2. Is it right that according to a Hadith of Nabi (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) it is better if we marry someone whom we love rather than marrying the one whom we don't know (i.e. arranged marriage)?

3. Can I keep a halaal relationship, if we have not done or not desire to do any dirty or haraam things with her?

4. Is keeping a relationship considered as halaal, or allowed if I want to truly marry her Insha Allah.

5. If she is my girlfriend and in future Insha allah I will marry her, then would she be a halaal wife?

6. Can I meet her in public places (one hafiz told me this)?

7. Can I touch her a bit also (holding hands)

8. Apart from touching hand what else is permissible if I truly want to marry her (means hugging or just sitting side by side together)?

9. All in all what are your views about relationships if I want to truly marry her and I truly love her? What is halaal and haram and what is right and wrong? What is allowed and not allowed under these circumstances? I will be very very very very thankful to you if you answer all these questions in detail so that I can understand well.