Taking one's step mother in law for hajj/umrah
Q: A girl has a step mother, can her husband take his step mother in law for Hajj/Umrah? Is he considered as a mahram?
Non-mahrams
Observing purdah from one's daughter in law's father
Q: My dad is late (may the Almighty grant him jannat). He has left behind 2 sons and 2 daughters. The eldest son lives with his father in law.
After mummy's iddat, it was her desire to perform umrah and her second son took her Alhamdulillah. The elder son wants to take my mother, his wife and his father in law, who is also a widower, for umrah. Will it be permissable for my mother to travel like this in the company of his father in law?
Are the children of one's adopted father's second wife mahrams?
Q: I'm adopted by my parents. My adopted mother then breastfed me so they became my foster parents. In 2021, my mother (foster mother) passed away and my father got married to another woman. She already has three children. Are they mahraam to me? Should I have to make purdah from them? Is it permissible to marry them at the same time?
Is the wife's nephew's wife a mahram?
Q: Is a man's wife's nephews wife his mahram?
Children of a lady being non-mahrams to her husband's children from another wife
Q: I'd like to know when a lady who has her own kids remarries a man who also has his own children, are the children mahram unto each other?
Woman making purdah from her father-in-law's brother
Q: Does a woman have to make purdah from her father-in-law's brother? Is he considered her Mahram?
Women exposing their faces in front of non-mahrams
Q: Are women allowed to unveil in front of their brother in laws?
Is it true that the brother in law and sister in law can look at each other provided they “keep it professional”?
Mentioning women's names in front of non-mahrams
Q: It is necessary for women to make pardah of their names? Some argue that we know the names of our Sahaabiyyah رضى الله عنها. Can Mufti Saheb please explain.
Woman sitting in a room with non-mahram family members with her face covered
Q: In a joint family, it permissible for a woman to sit in the room where members of the house, including her brother-in-law, have gathered? Is it permissible if she sits in these sittings with her face covered?
Having meals with non-mahrams
Q: Is it permissible for me to sit and eat with my girl cousins while her father, mother, brother and my mother are also seated there.
Also, can I say جَزَاكَ اللَّهُ خَيْرًا and speak about general things like Madrasah with her mother, who is my mother's brother's wife while they are wearing abaya and scarf but part of their hair or neck is exposed?