Giving azaan into a new born baby's ear
Q: Is it sunnah to give azaan into a new born baby’s ear and is there any hadith provided?
Pregnancy and Parenting
Adopting measures to keep one's children firm on Deen
Q: What is the ruling for parents towards upbringing of their children.
If children are not on the right track, upto what extent is it permissible to be strict or authoritarian towards child-raising? Kindly explain in detail.
Water births
Q: Is a water birth permissible?
Glad tidings in the mubaarak Ahaadith for a lady who had a miscarriage
Q:
1. I had a missed miscarriage at 8 and half weeks of pregnancy. I conceived at a late stage as I was blessed with nikaah much later in my life. I am much devastated with the miscarriage.
My question is, will the miscarried foetus go to heaven or it never existed (as if there was no rooh in it)?
2. Furthermore, I had a dnc done but after three weeks post procedure I'm still bleeding. Please advise on the process for salaah and Quraan.
Authenticity of a hadith regarding duas being accepted during childbirth/labour
Q: I came across some information a few years ago, which I don't remember the source. I am now pregnant alhamdulilah and I would like to verify this information as I cannot find anything in my Islamic literature.
Is true that dua is accepted during childbirth/labour? If so, please can you provide any basis.
Selling a children's blanket with the inscription "Allahuma bismika Amooto wa Ahyaa"
Q: Is it permissible to sell a children's blanket which will have some decorations, a name on it (e.g. Zain) and with it will be "Allahuma bismika Amooto wa Ahyaa"?
Parents adopting measures for their children's Deeni wellbeing
Q: How can we make sure that our children do not apostasize from Islam as we know that atheism and liberalism is rapidly spreading? What can we do about it at an individual level?
Keeping pictures of a baby scan
Q: When a woman is pregnant she usually has an ultrasound at each visit. Will it be permissible to keep the baby scan and show others? Does it fall under the same catergory as taking a CT or ultrasound scan of any part of the body?
Shaving a newborns hair and carrying out the aqeeqah on the seventh day after childbirth
Q:
1. Is shaving the hair of a newborn child done before the aqeeqah or can we shave the child's hair after?
2. Can parents eat from the aqeeqah meat or not?
Child remaining in the womb of the mother for more than 9 months
Q: In Behishti zewar theres one masala that states that if a husband passes away and then after a year the lady gives birth to a child, it will be attributed to him (she didnt get married again at all after his passing). Conception happens a few days as afterwards the nutfah dies and conception is only 9 to 10 months.
Is it normal for a mother to carry an offspring for 12 months?