Advice

Husband and wife not being intimate for two years

Q: I want to know the validity of marriage if the husband and wife didn't have intercourse for 2 years. The husband is unable to do it with his wife. They both consulted  a doctor and medicine were given but still the husband doesn't show much interest and he doesn't take the medicine. The wife on the other hand started to feel depressed and alone. What is the wife's right and what she should do?

Marital issues

Q: I got married in the month of Decembber 2006. Thereafter two months I came to  know that my wife has been suffering from epilepsy. The fact that she is suffering from epilepsy was hidden during our marriage both by her parents and herself. I have all the medical records and evidences that she is suffering from epilepsy. On questioning, my wife and her mother responded negatively and their behavior was not cooperative. I went to many Muslim scholars to seek a solution and they all advised me to cooperate with her. God blessed me with a son and due to drugs/medication which my wife was taking had a reaction on son`s health and he was treated for a long time. Thanks to Allah that he gave health to my son. In all these years I faced many problems which now seems to me unbearable. I lost 60% of my business as I look after my son both like a mother and father. I never slapped my wife nor I showed rudeness but still she never co operated with me and never discussed her illness. Besides, the doctor has advised me not have any more children. I cannot go away from home for long hours. The situation becomes more worse when I fell ill. Besides, the behavior of her mother and brothers is very rude.They have put all their burden of her daughter on me. In these 6 to 7 years the things seems to be getting out of my hands. Please help me before I make some or any decision.

Parents bickering and arguing

Q: My parents are always bickering and arguing, talking about leaving each other, making a dull atmosphere in the house. I am 16 and I have two younger brothers of 13 and 6. They are happy at times and they will love each other. Is there any dua I can read to stop the arguing?

How to spend one's salary

Q: I would like to know if there is any guidelines in the shari'ah on how one should spend their money/salary. Someone told me that it was the advice of one of the ulama that your income/salary should be divided into 3 parts:

  1. Charity ie discharging zakaat, qurbani and spending on ones parents etc
  2. For your living essentials and spending.
  3. Savings

What is muftis opinion on the above? Also I would like to know if a person can stop doing the above with no valid reason?

Sending one's daughter to live with her uncles and aunts in Pakistan

Q: My daughter has a very bad behaviour. She is 12. I want to send her to Pakistan to her grandparents. Her aunties and uncles are there who read their 5 times salaah and observe pardah (what am saying is its an Islamic environment). Is it right for me to send her because I am the parent and its my duty as a mother, but she doesn't listen to me at all. I am scared she might end up going on the wrong path.

Wazifa for the return of stolen wealth

Q: I am living in UK. There is a man who took my 53 thousand pounds and ran away one year a go. He made me homeless. I sold my house and I was going buy an other house. The evil person took my money and disappeared. Please help me and give me some wazifa I can read for god to make him return back to me my money. I am a lone woman, no parents and I am disabled.

Solution for those in despair and helplessness

Q: Please pray for me and give me guidance. My soul is so lost and broken. I am a sinful Muslim and have committed many sins against Allah. And now I realise the errors of my ways. I am in a very bad place and don't know how to gain my self respect back. I am in love with a man that does not love me, we are not married but were at one point intimate friends and hoped to be married. But things changed and he stopped loving me. However since then we have just been friends. Me being in the hope that he would realise that I love him much and he would marry me. However all this man has done is to take advantage of my feelings play with my emotions and leave me feeling like a worthless human taking advantage of my kindness. I know I probably deserve what I am getting now. But I am so sad and in despair. I need some help and support and don't know what to do. My situation is so bad I have been humiliated and shamed by him through the way he speaks to me and the things he does and how he constantly toys with my emotions. I need help please advise me on how I can get it together and loose the love of this man from my heart for I have tried for 10 years or more. He will not leave me alone always calling me and manipulating me and I am weak and always fall for his traps and he uses my friendship to make fun of me for amusement. Yet I can't fight this or see this for what it is. Please give me a prayer or wazifa. I know my request is shameful but I have no one to turn to.