Aqaaid

Q: What Should be the basis of choosing a madhhab?

Q: Can you please explain who the  Ash’arees are? I am very confused about them because ulema-e-Deoband usually list themselves as Ash’aree or Matreedi, but Arabian scholars like Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Saalih al Uthaymeen and bin Baz clearly consider Ash'aree and Matreedi out of Ahle-Sunnah wal Jamaah.  Why do the Arabian scholars consider Ash'aree and Matreedi to be outside of Ahle-sunnah wal Jamaah. What is even more confusing is that our ulema respect the aforementioned scholar, but if you read fatwa work of these scholars, you will clearly see that they consider Ash'aree and Matreedi to be a batil sect.

Q: I have a relative, who born as a muslim. But he is doing shirk. Every friday & in the month of ramdhan he goes to mosque. But at the same time he also vist temples & worships the idols. He is a good person with good character. I don't want him to do shirk. I want to give him dawah about Islam. So, please help me in this regard? Please let me know if there is any supplication, wazaif, dua to be read, with the barkat of which ALLAH will change him & make him a true MUSLIM. I hate his SHIRK activities. Please help me Mufti Saheb. Tell us what could we do in order to make him a good muslim?

Q: If someone gives to a person a haraam item, and the person says to the giver "thank you"is this kufr? 

A man comes to install the cable for the tv-signal, and the person says after the cable-man does finish his work "thank you" to him, is this kufr?

Q: By curiosity I went on the net and check the characteristic of my horoscope but not what they predicts. for example they say that scorpio is strong by nature etc. Some were true but did i do shirk? I have promised not to read these things again.

Q: Is it permissible for me to find out my zodiac sign or the sign of another person e.g. whether our horoscope sign is Leo, Scorpio, Capricorn, etc.?

Q: Can we celebrate International Women's Day?

Q: If a believer commits an act of kufr which renders him a murtad thereafter he repents, will that repentance be accepted or not? E.g: Someone spoke bad of Nabi s.a.w so he became a murtad thereafter he repented, will that particular sin of kufr be forgiven or not?

Q: Is the book biharul anwar authentic? If not, I made a mistake and did one of the things it said about getting spouse closer to you, what should I do?

Q: Is the ikhtilaaf amongst the four mazhabs so bad as it is pictured by the salafi ulama? and "taassub" between the parties is so severe that a hanafi women cannot be married by a shaf'iee? please explain to us common laymen.