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  • Sawda' or Sawdah as a girl's name

    I wanted to ask if it is ok to have the name (Sawda'). Which means sort of black, and if it is ok to change it?.. More

  • A dissolute father loses his right in fostering his children

    I have asked questions to different websites and received conflicting answers. Please give me clear advice according to Quran and Sunnah. I have 2 children born out of Zina sex before marriage I started practicing Islam and so I got married Islamicly to the father and he took his Shahaadah before hand but was not practicing Islam fully.. More

  • Obey your dad and stop relation with your boyfriend

    Last year when I started college I meet a boy and we started going out. Now we have been together for 10 months but during this time my dad found out 8 months into the relationships. My dad stopped me from going to college and then my mum spoke to him and he let me go back again. Me and my boyfriend decided to sleep together so that we will.. More

  • Wants to know why her husband treats her badly

    I am married woman having three children and it is already 22-years passed for my marriage my husband never talks to me properly since last 2 years he has become more worse he is not taking any interest in family so I want to know is there anything like magic to separate husband and wife or just it is nature of my husband. .. More

  • Non-Muslim woman had a child from Zina with a Muslim man

    I'm not Muslim, but I was living with a Muslim. Although we knew it was not supposed to be like that. He tried, I started reading the Quran and liked, we have a son that is now 4 years old. He loves his son like never see before. All of a sudden he disappeared. My son keeps asking for him, talking about him and walking around the house with.. More

  • Wants to remarry and keep fostering her child

    I would like to take my child with me to get remarried again (not to my child father) in a different city. The future husband said he will be responsible and provide for all of us and our future kids. The father of my first child refused to keep the child with me. He doesn't spend time with him and he doesn't even pay me alimony neither.. More

  • Husband insists in having intercourse during her menses

    My question is about sex during menses. I sometimes during menses have to fight my husband off of me because he will try to have sex with me. He has been successful 9 out of ten times. He has married in order to have another wife to go to but this still occurs during menses. I am at a lost what to do I advise him but still it doesn't stop. .. More

  • Wants to bypass a 3 year waiting period to marry a Christian divorcee'

    I'm an Italian brother, my Muslim name is Jibreel. I have an important question to pose. I promised to marry a young Christian woman, who was divorcing from her husband. We love, and we were supposing to get married relatively in a short time: but Italian legislation is very complicated. The judge pronounces the sentence of separation.. More

  • Questionable marriage

    My question is, if a Muslim girl gets married from non-Muslim man after he converted to Islam. But after she got married from him he never prays or fast in Ramadhaan, and if anyone else asks him about his religion he will say that he is Christian. He still drinks and eats pork. But if his wife asked him about his religion he will say that he.. More

  • A Muslim acting as a godparent

    Is it ok for a Muslim to be a godparent? What does it say regarding this?.. More

  • Did his words mean divorce?

    If you fought with your husband and at that time he was really tensed and he said that "then our relationship is broken or over" later he said he did not mean it from his heart. .. More

  • Doubtful marriage

    I have a question regarding Katib ul Kateeb. If both couples have already done Kutb Al-Kitab and both parents from some reason change their minds and both the male and female continue with the marriage without blessings from spouse's parents. Would this be considered Haraam or would it be considered as eloping. Can you please verify from an.. More

  • Paying the dowry a second time

    Please answer me as soon as possible for my question No. 285004 because it looks like it is not a valid Nikaah because in your Fatwa: 81385 you said the Nikaah is not valid and my wife is coming in 15 days to the United State, I would like to know as soon as possible before she comes, that way they can do the Nikaah Aakd again and tell me if.. More

  • Rights of spouses

    I would like to ask about a woman serving her husband. If she accepts the opinion that it is not obligatory as some scholars have said (especially in the case where the woman works and the husband is unemployed), then what about the case when her husband orders her iron his clothes for example. Does this suddenly become obligatory because the.. More

  • His marriage arrangement to a Christian woman is not agreeable to her father

    I am a Muslim man living in the United States. I am engaged to a Christian woman. Her parents approve of a civil marriage. Her parents however do not approve of an Islamic marriage; they do not approve of any ceremony performed by a Muslim judge; and they do not want to be part of it. I have asked the brothers at the local Islamic Center whether.. More