Q: My husband has issued me with 2 talaaqs. I am currently at my parents house in iddat, as we have not reconciled. My husband is demanding that I return all the gold to him (some were given as mahr and this is documented on the marriage certificate, some was gifted to me by my husband during the duration of our marriage and some he has gifted to my daughter). I have paid zakaah on this gold over the years. Who is the rightful owner of the gold?
Q: I wanted to know about "push present" which is a gift from a husband to his wife for her giving birth of the child. It is usually called "push present" because the wife pushes the baby out. Is a push present allowed in Islam? The wife usually expects a gift from the husband because she has suffered nine months and labour as well. Is it ok for her to seek a gift from her husband?
Q: Is it permissible to give away your child,s clothes or other things that were bought with the intention of it being for that child or bought with money gifted to the child? As I had learnt that you can't give it away unless you seek permission from the child once his of age of you replace it with monetary value.
Q: All my needs are being fulfilled Alhamdulillah. My brother's wife used to pay me pocket money every month. I used to take it. Then I was suffering from many things of her. She hurt my mother and many more things. We all forgive her. I forgive her but now I don't want to take money from her. Am I refusing to accept the risk from Allah?
Q: I'm a doctor. Can I accept gifts from a reputed pharma company and price to patient is not affected?
Q: When buying items e.g. clothing, toys for non baligh children, what niyyat should we make? I have heard that you can't give away any item of theirs after you have made them owners. e.g. I am buying my son clothes this month.
Q: Me and my older sister have had a big fall out recently. She then sent me a message through a family member that she wants back £1000 she gave me 13-15 years ago. I have absolutely no recollection of this. She doesn't believe I don't remember it. At that time I was at university and she claims she helped me out by giving me this money and I was supposed to return it. My question is why didn't she ever mention it to me before or tell another family member. She is claiming if I don't pay it back she will hold me responsible on day of judgement. Please where do I stand? If she can produce a copy of a cheque that old drawn out to me where do I stand?
Q: I needed ithmid surma so my husband arranged it as one of his friends went for umrah. That person is a barber by profession and gave surmah as a gift. He trims, shaves beard of clients and there is a television in his shop. I want to know if I can use the surma or not?
Q: The gifts and money that people give in shadi belong to whom? The bride or her parents? Usually it is a practice in Pakistan that whatever money people give, they give it in the hands of the mother of bride, and she spends it on food and other expenses in shadi.
Q: I am in great trouble. My aunt has brought a box of sweets which some non Muslim has given us on the occasion of Diwali (non-Muslim festival). I did no know about it. So I have taken sweets from it and when I took one sweet from it my mind struck that this might have came on the occasion of Diwali and when I asked her, she told me yes this is on the occasion of Diwali. So I got confused how to get rid of it so I made a plan that I will take one bite of it to show other family members that I have eaten it and after spitting all the sweets which I had taken I felt that very little part of it went inside my throat which I was not able to remove. So my question is have I done kufr or shirk. Believe me, I didn't want to eat that sweet but since I have taken that sweet so I was afraid that if I reject this sweet in front of other family members, they start pinching me. I love Allah very much and also want to be free from shirk, bidat and haram things.