General

Signing petitions

Q: The response of Muslims to legislation and actions of the government that harm Muslims within the country and outside is to start a petition to get the government to stop their proposed action. This now seems to be the default Muslim position. If you ask them whether they made Istighfaar, Du'a, performed Salatul Hajat, they would say no. In any case, there is little or no evidence that such petitions make a difference. The outcome is almost always the same. Based on the above my question are as follows: 1. What is the point of Muslims drawing up and/or signing petitions? 2. What examples do we have from the Seerah of how Nabi (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) dealt with oppression against the Muslims from the people of Makkah?

Mother cursing her child

Q: When a mother always has something bad to say about her child e.g. She always say things like "you are not a pleasure" and "I don't see a good future for you" etc. Is that like making a bad dua on that child? Will those words uttered by a mother be accepted by the Almighty?

Visiting kuffaar websites

Q:

1. Can you go on kuffaar websites to read the news?

2. Can you read kuffar newspapers?

3. Can you go on fussaaq [transgressing Muslims] websites to read the news?

4. Can you read a newspaper written by a faasiq?

5. Can you use youtube whatsapp viber etc?

Focusing one one's duties and obligations

Q: As I am no longer a teenager it is obviously impossible for me to turn back into a teenager even if I make dua for such a thing to happen. From the hadeeth which speaks about the last person to enter jannah, we know that not all Muslims will get to Jannah immediately and some will have to burn in jahannam first. So it is impossible for all Muslims to be saved from jahannam. Therefore what is the point of the ulama asking us to make dua to Allah to save all Muslims from jahannam when it is an impossibility that all Muslims will be safe from jahannam?

Injustice

Q: Is it correct to say that bombing or killing (innocent) Americans is islamically okay, or recommended, because the American army killed people in Afghanistan Iraq etc?