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  • Can a widow live without remarrying?

    I am a 21 years old widow with a 1-year-old son. Is it compulsory for me to get married or I can live as a widow through out my life? May Allah (SWT) guide us to the right path... More

  • Husband wants sex only once a week

    My husband wants to make love (sex)just once a week. When I asked him the reason, he gave me no reason. What canI do? .. More

  • Delaying marrying again for the sake of her children

    Idon’t want to get married, because I have children. My ex-husband said if he agrees to the person then he will permit me to take care of children. I think it is Haramfor me to keep my children when I get married. Is it Haram to keep the kidsif I remarried? I am in America but I may leave this country some day... More

  • Impermissibility of using sex toys and selling them

    1) Is it permissible for a married couple to use certain objects (like sex toys) in their sexual relations? Please include any possible difference between the individual usage and the usage by the couple together! 2) Is it permissible for Muslims to do business in these objects, e.g.women selling these products to women only, or men to men only?.. More

  • Divorce given by a drunkard

    I want to know fatwa for the following two issues. 1. Divorce given by a Drunkard. 2. Forced to give divorce by mother and other members of the family. The actual issue is that a person who is an intoxicant, basically weak-minded, used to get angry very often, and does not realize his sayings and doings in the state of intoxicant. One.. More

  • Marriage Contract Does Not Seem to Be Working Out

    I had a Katib Kitab (marriage contract) on my cousin who is 23 and born here in the USA from an American Christian mother. She doesn't practice much Islam. I told her to start praying and she promised me that she will when we get married and be together in one house, Insha Allah. I also ask her to start learning to speak Arabic because she only knows.. More

  • Friend needs a husband

    I have a great Muslim friend with good morals and good knowledge of Islam. I see her going through hard times, however I can't seem to understand it as she has so much more than many have in life, except a husband. She is growing older (over 30) and seems to have a hard time appreciating her family as she sees them not appreciative of her. How.. More

  • Questionable Mahram

    My husband is divorced with children from first wife. I am the second wife, no children. Is my husband daughter's husband my Mahram?.. More

  • Practice of Prophet Lot’s people

    What was the practice of the people of Prophet Loot (Alaihi Salaam)? If a woman presses her legs together and exhausts herself is it consider as homosexuality?.. More

  • Appropriate names for Muslim children

    I have read in the chain of many Ahadith that some narrators are named 'Israel.' I know that Israel is the name of Prophet Jacob, but is it ok nowadays to name our children 'Israel?' Is it also ok to name them Mikhaeel or Mikael, as the angel?.. More

  • People who are permitted to see a woman without her Khimar

    Whoare permitted tosee a woman without her Khimar?.. More

  • Wants material about divorce in Islam

    I'm presenting a program about 'Divorce in Islam.' Please help me with some relevant material on the topic... More

  • Conflict over raising their child

    When my husband and I got married he said I could finish college as long as I had a baby for him. So I did. I went to college for a whole year before I had my daughter. I told him that I still wanted to finish after I had the baby and he said ‘sure, why not.’ So I signed up my daughter in the college day care with his approval and was planning.. More

  • Working in a beauty saloon

    I have a friend who works in a beauty saloon. Recently shewas told that working there and the money earned thereis also Haram.I have listedher work below andI would like know to clarifywhether what she is doing is Haram or Halal according to Qur'an and Sunnah. Please note that she is a Muslim and this work is a source of income for her and.. More

  • Wants His Wife to Join Him by Travelling without Mahram

    I am newly married. I am working in Saudi Arabia as an Engineer. I got my family Visa to bring my wife here. I took two months vacation instead of one month due to marriage. Now company is not ready to allow me to go on short vacation to bring my wife. In this case my wife can travel from Delhi Airport to Jeddah Airport (5.5Hrs Journey) without Mahram... More