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  • Disclosing One’s Deeds Without Showing Off

    I know that in islam actions are by intentions, so in that case, is it permissible to "show off" good deed for a good purpose? For example, let's say you are surrounded by people who are proud of their sins and negatively influencing others, is it ok to try to counter it by "showing off" your acts of worship so people will not feel like no body is practicing.. More

  • Concealing Righteous Deeds or Showing Them to Parents

    Dear sheikh may I kindly request you do not send me a link please. My question is, will I be rewarded if I tell my parents about the good deeds I have done in order to make them happy? Or should I not do this and conceal my good deeds from absolutely everyone? .. More

  • No Sin for Noticing a Woman Beside You Provided You Avert Your Gaze and Look Away

    I know that men must lower their gaze if there are women. But is it ok if I dont look at a woman directly but I can still see her in my peripheral vision? So for example if a woman is to my right so I look to my left, but can still see that someone is there in my peripheral vision, but I cannot make out their details, is that ok sheikh?.. More

  • My Mother-In-Law Committed Suicide Because of Disgraceful Acts by Father-In-Law

    My father in law was committed in prostitution and alcoholic because of this my mother in law committed suicide, at this scenario father law asking for forgiveness, and his son and daughter not willing to accept because he is not a trustable person he may not stand his word and he may commit sin in future. Kindly guide us on the right things against.. More

  • Lying Is Prohibited but It Is Not Obligatory to Confess to Those to Whom One Lied

    Is repentance enough for making up for a protracted lie? It didn’t harm anyone nor was there evil intent but it did occupy others mentally/emotionally —must one confess (painful, disastrous) or is repentance enough? Can you just pray Allah hides it? I am in a lot of mental pain/guilt/regret. Please guide me .. More

  • Hurt His Father and Took Money Unlawfully from Him and Failed to Seek His Forgiveness before His Death

    Assalamu Alaikum.My father passed away few days ago. He had cancer. As he is gone, I am remembering everything about how much he cared and loved me and I hurt him so much. I remember so many incidents, where I hurt him a lot. I used to take lot of money from him lying, I need money for this and that. Before he died, I knew his time was near but I was.. More

  • Not Obligatory to Have Intention Throughout the Duration of the Act of Worship

    With regards to permissible actions such as eating, drinking, studying wordly sciences and so on, I know that in order to turn them into acts of worship you must have the correct intention e.g. you can intend by eating to gain strength to worship Allaah. My question is do you have to maintain this intention and keep it in mind throughout the duration.. More

  • Repentance from Disbelief

    Aslamu alykum,I am Rizwan from India , my question is how to repent from kufr what are Arabic Duas and prayers for its repentance? .. More

  • Repentance is Easy to Make without Any Hardship

    Assalamalkam I would like to know if I’m repenting correctly. So how I was repenting is I would verbally or in my mind say Oh Allah I admit it I did sins, then say I’m doing this out of sincerity, then say I feel guilt for this sin and then say I wish I didn’t do it then I will think about punishment and ask Allah not to punish me, then I say.. More

  • The Best Wording of Istighfaar

    I was at sports practice one day and a discussion came up regarding a certain clothing which I wore due to skin problems. My friends questioned me about it and I wanted to avoid embarrassment so I said my parents forced me to wear it. This was a few years ago, and I have started to research more on Islam now, and feel it was wrong to lie like that... More

  • On the Day of Judgment No Soul Would Give Any Good Deed to Another

    On the day of judgement Can a Muslim give a little good deeds to family or a non Muslim ? Can a person give good deeds to sinners For eg a friend who is a disbeliever ? .. More

  • Giving Up a Prohibition and Doing an Act of Obedience to Please Allah

    If I stay away from haraam, so for example, if I don't go to a mixed gathering because I know it is haraam, but I don't have the specific intention of pleasing Allaah by staying away from it, would I be rewarded for it? Likewise if I fast because I know it's encouraged, but I don't have the specific intention of pleasing Allaah, would I be rewarded.. More

  • Proclaiming Shahaadah Is Enough to Repent from Apostasy

    Is this the correct order if someone might have fallen out of the fold of Islam for example by doing apostasy due to lack of knowledge? 1. Kalima (could you also write the most correct one? There are so many different versions 2. Salat al-tawbah 3. Ghusl Also does tajweed, tafseer and khushoo have to be very good? She really wants to repent but.. More

  • He Claimed to be Catholic

    Selam . I am 22 years old , i worked months ago as a call agent and while i was talking to a woman on the phone , she asked me if im a cacholic . I asked my boss what to say and he said to me you should say yes because she will belive you more on trying to close that deal so it was just for a few more money , but i know i was wrong and very repented.. More

  • Repented from Buying Trousers with Stolen Money

    As Salam alaikum noble Shaykh. I was working in the company of construction owned by Chinese so this Chinese used to hurt us and cheat us in terms of our salaries so the employees decided to steel company cement and I participated there we stole 11 cement and sold it so the money I got there I bought the trouser, this job was for temporary we were constructin.. More