Women's Issues

Q: Is family dinner allowed? Can we get together with a friends family and eat together with 2 or more families at a place or in a restaurant? All women are wearing abyas?

Q: A brother told me that he committed intercourse with a woman in her iddah and wanted to ask if her iddah is now extended? If so for how long?

Q: A woman leaves home whilst in iddah, does the sin go to the deceased husband?

Q: My wife completed her 40 days after birth of our baby girl last week and had ghusl. Yesterday (after 6 days from 40 days) we had relations and then both of us had ghusl. She spotted some very light bleeding after couple of hours of ghusal so should she do another ghusal or just wudhu please? 

Q: A friend received one talaaq from her husband. She needs to know if she still needs to sit in her iddat? She is the breadwinner of the family - work starts from 7:30 am until 6pm - Can she still continue to go to work and fetch kids from school as well as do grocery shopping? There are no family members to assist - Dad passed away and other siblings are sisters who do not know how to drive. Also, if she does have to sit in Iddat and is allowed to leave the house for work, school rounds and grocery shopping, then is hijaab only required or niqaab is required as well? 

Q:

1. Is covering face fardh on women or just wearing burkha which covers the whole body except hands, feet and face suffice?
2. Is going for jamaat for dawah purpose from one place to another correct in islam? Is it part of sunnah? And what about reading fazaele aamal book? I heard few scholars saying just to follow sahih hadith and not these books. Please clarify.

Q: I am sitting in iddat at my aunt's house and the house is full and I don't want to be in the way. Can I change my place of iddat?

Q: My question is I took talaaq (divorce) on 25th October 2013. I was at my mother's home from the last 6 months and I was having no connection with my husband. I worked as a Software Developer. To leave my office I have to give one months notice. Without giving notice and replacement of my position to someone else, I won't be able to leave this office. What does Shariah say about iddat after talaaq? And what should I do as I have problem of office. Kindly Help me as soon as possible.

Q: I have a question regarding divorce and iddat. I was living in Quetta with my husband. Me and my husband came to Islamabad to get a divorce. I was divorced on the second September 2013. I am now living here at my parents home in Islamabad. Currently this is my second month of iddat, and there is no hope of reconciliation. One of my brothers lives in Lahore. He lives with my grandfather (dada abbu). He is getting married tomorrow. I wanted to ask if I can go to Lahore to attend my brother's wedding. Afterall he is my mahram and I will be living in my dada abbu's house. Am I allowed to go to my brother's wedding in Lahore during my iddat?

Q: I have been married for 10 years now. My husband had been living in ... for the past 25 years and I joined him here after marriage. When I came here, I discovered that he was involved in a lot of un-Islamic practices like gambling, interest based transactions and such. I, however, try my best to cope with all these, as he is a very nice person aside from all that. However, the major problem I face is in wearing hijab. I grew up in ... wearing niqab but I took it off when I moved to ... (I was lost for a while). I started wearing hijab again five years ago. He doesn't like me wearing it because he says it embarrasses him to be seen with me anywhere he goes. He doesn't take me when he is out with his friends and says we can't do a lot of activities because of my hijab. I take all this, but it has now come to the point where he stops talking to me for days entirely because he is upset about my hijab. I know I can't take it off and I don't want to take it off, but what to do? I don't know any solution for it. From what I have seen, my family and his family will tell me to take it off for peace between me and him. This problem is making me miserable. There are days when I really consider separation. Please help.