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  • Death being delayed

    I have some questions regarding to death. Does Allah ever change the time of a person's death? Does it mention anywhere in the Qur'aan or Hadeeth of this ever happening? Also, the night of Al- Qadar, a night better than a thousand months, Allah writes the destiny of mankind for the upcoming year, right? I am asking these because I have read.. More

  • Was following poor advise her destiny?

    I want to know the Islamic ruling on the case of a lady who has fibroid. Some people advised her to operate, while others advised her to take herbs. She took the latter advice and started using herbs, but later discovered that the herbs were not effective. Is it then that it is her qadar [destiny] that she would not be cured of that fibroid by her.. More

  • Divine Wisdom in Making Some People Poor

    1. Is chest beating and using knives during Muharram allowed? 2. I have always seen poor people suffering and rich enjoying, although former have more belief in the Almighty. Why so? 3. During our duty in the hospital, sometimes we miss Jumu’a of Fridays due to emergencies, saving people. Are we right? .. More

  • Marriage: by choice or by fate?

    My question is regarding marriage. I have been trying figure out whether the individual one marries is by choice (Ikhtiyar) or by fate (Naseeb). If it is choice then why is it that two people who truly love each other never marry? If it is fate, then why would God allow a woman to marry a physically or mentally abusive husband?.. More

  • Some questions about prayer and divine decree

    I have a few questions which I am very confused about: 1. Is it true that the lines on our hands change every 30 days or something like that? Do they even change at all? Some say it is proven from the Qur’an. 2. If one starts to recite the Qur’an from a middle of Surah and not from it's beginning is it necessary to say ‘Bismillah’.. More

  • Taking lives out of living being

    How can the creator of all life sanction murder of the life he has created? Whether it is justified or not isn't his to take and his alone!.. More

  • Wealth and poverty are both predestinated

    How come God give some people allot of money and some people work and try every thing and they can't make it and they stay poor. Is God has some thing to do with it or it's really luck?.. More

  • People with disabilities in Islamic thought

    I am a PhD student and I write my dissertation on the Rights of People with Disabilities in Islam. In the first chapter I deal with the position of people with disabilities in Islamic Theology. I want to know the main answers provided by Islamic theological schools to the following question: "Does disability represent a form of punishment from Allah.. More

  • The Purpose of Human Beings' Creation

    I was doing Da'wah to a Hindu. He was continually asking why God Created human beings? I could not give a proper answer. I told him to worship God and to give paradise to the righteous and Hell for sinners. I told him Hitler killed thousands of people and that he will receive actual punishment in Hell. Then he asked why God Created Hitler in the first.. More

  • Divine Decree and man's responsibility

    My brother was wrongly accused and he is still in the prison waiting for the decison by the judge.. I read some where that all the problems are fate.. so we could not have done any thing to avoid this problem..but I also read that you get whatyou work for. My quesion is if it is written then why should we even try? And also is it proven by hadith.. More

  • Questions about predestination

    I just got into a discussion with a friend who said that in Islam, we do not believe that death is preordained. The time of death is not fixed and depends on the choices we make. Furthermore he added that prayers (Du'a) can increase or decrease persons lifespan, that is if you ask for a longer life God will grant it and if you ask for a quick death.. More

  • Can God do the impossible?

    I know a person who does not believe that there is god. He asked me if God is All-Knowing and able to do all things can God make himself dead and change your destiny if He want? If He changes there is no Qadar. Please answer me that I can convince him and prove that he is wrong... More

  • Mosayyar and Mokhayyar

    How can the human being be "Mosayyar" (bound to do certain acts) and "Mokhayyar" (free to do what he wants)?.. More

  • Doubts about predestination

    Dear Brothers Asalamu Alaikum. Soembody told me that when Allah created all the souls, He gathered all of them and told them about their fate. If the fate is already decided, then why Allah will make us responsible for our wrong deeds? And why we might be punished for our wrong doings?.. More

  • Allah 'Pairing' People

    As I heard, Allah (SWT) made pair for everyone. Whatever we love or do affair it will no use. The girl selected by Allah (SWT) will come to us anyway. Is it right? Those who don't marry, what about them? Did not Allah (SWT) made any pair for them? .. More