Mother-in-law hugging her son-in-law
Q: I would like to know whether a mother in law can hug their son in law?
Mahrams
Mahrams in a foster family after nikaah
Q:
1. A woman has a foster family. Are her husband and children Mahaarim to the foster mother, etc.?
2. I've heard that if a woman takes lactation supplements and breastfeeds a child, that child will not be said as the woman's husband's foster child, will the child be Mahram to the woman's children and parents?
Mother in law living in the same house with the son in law after his wife passes away
Q: If the wife passes away, can her mother live in the same house with the son in law as she has to take care of the children?
Relationship between daughter and stepfather
Q: Can you please advise me on the following matter:
A girl was married and is now divorced from her husband. There was a child (female) from that marriage. The girl is now going to perform Nikah with someone else.
What is the position/relationship of the child (who is now reaching puberty) to her stepfather? Is the stepfather her mahram or non-mahram?
Mahrams of a girl who was born out of wedlock
Q: If a female who was born out of wedlock and raised by her maternal grandparents as their own, who is her Mahram?
Does her uncles, her mother's brothers become her Mahram? Will her brother, they share the same mother but not father become her Mahram?
And are her male cousins, sons of her mother's sister's and brother's become her Mahram?
Father in law shaking hands with his daughter in law or kissing her hand
Q: A girls father in law wants to shake her hand when they go to visit. It's a habit of his to shake his nieces hands and hug them.
On Eid he shook her hand and kissed it. The mother in law said he's doing like how Dada used to do for the children.
Is this allowed ?
Son in law hugging his mother in law
Q: Is it permissible for the son in law to hug his mother in law if she is not old?
Are one's grandparents' siblings mahrams?
Q: Are my maternal and paternal grandparents' brothers (e.g. naani's brother) my mahaarim? Someone said that they are not.
Girl observing purdah in front of an illegitimate son of her father
Q: I would like to know if purdah is compulsory in front of an illegitimate son of my fathers?
Is a foster daughter a mahram for her foster uncle?
Q: Is a woman's foster children (i.e. the children she breastfed) who are female mahram for her biological brother?