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  • Broken promise to Allah

    I have made a promise to Allah if something happens in my life. But now I feel I can not fulfill my promise to Allah. Is there a penance for this?.. More

  • Teenager struggling to be better Muslimah

    I am a Muslimah in my middle teens. I am trying to be a good Muslimah, but I don't really know what to do. I memorize Qur'an, pray for a long time and don't listen to music. Yet I am still a bad person; my mind thinks too much about Haram things, even in prayer. I always dismiss them but they come back quickly into my mind. I have weak faith and I pray.. More

  • Muslimah "hanging out" with teen companions in USA

    I am a 15-year-old Arab Muslimah living in America. I would like to ask you some questions.First, I hang out with my Muslim friends (who are all girls) but they are not the best Muslims. From them I have learned to talk about others and swear too much. They are good girls, all around my age, but are obsessed with music and guys. I want to tell them.. More

  • Shaking hands with husband's father

    Can a female shake hands with her father in-law (her husband's father) when she greets him?.. More

  • Repentance for corruption

    I have been working in a government office and I used to be corrupt and I built houses with that money. But now I realise that what I used to do was not Islamic and I repent to Allah. And I am sponsored by the same office for a master's program and I have to go back to work for the same office. And I don't want to do what I used to do so can you.. More

  • Parents Ordered Son to Divorce Pregnant Wife with Two Children

    I am married since 1996 and I have two children and my wife is pregnant now and she live, in her father's house for 6 months because she had problem with my mother. My mother started that problem and treated my wife so badly, then my wife could not carry all that, so she responded by the same way to my mother. Then my mother gets mad at my wife. After.. More

  • Breaking a promise

    In what case can a person break his promise? If I made a promise to my daughter, but my daughter disrespected me and called me all kinds of names, do I still have to keep my promise?.. More

  • Revealing one’s Past Sins If Asked about Them

    I committed Zina once in my life and God covered me and nobody know about that, and I feel sorry for what I did and I ask forgiveness from God.I'm going to get married, what if the girl I'm going to marry asked me if I committed adultery before and what if she asked me to swear to God? .. More

  • Ignoring a sister who speaks to her male colleagues

    What do you say of a man who is highly strict with his sisters to the extent that he ignores his sister for 5 months for speaking to other men who are just her colleagues? When he married he married a woman of disgusting morals who commits what is almost Haram, insane relationships with men and so on and he is aware of all that... More

  • Wants a Verse or Du’aa for Her Fiancé to Get A Job in Muslim Country

    I am a frequent visitor of your site and what you all have done for the Muslim by the grace of Allah is marvelous and I have no words to describe it. I have many books about Du'a. But I have come to know that the Ayats from the Glorious Qur'an for the acceptance of Du'a said by the Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) are the correct ones... More

  • Marriage without Parents' Approval

    What do you say of a man who decides to marry in secret while knowing that what he is doing is going to anger his parents very strongly after consulting them in the marriage? The reasons for the parents' rejecting the marriage were: 1. He is 20 years old. 2. He didn't get a degree. 3. The woman he wanted to marry is known for bad morals committing what.. More

  • Muslim Mother Raising Two Non-Muslim Children

    A mother is raising two Kafir children. She accepted Islam when they were older and they live with her and her husband. What is her responsibility towards them? They do not oppose her in anyway. She is very displeased with them. .. More

  • Punishment for Revealing His Wife's Secret

    What is the punishment of a person that didn't keep his wife's secret which she told him to keep as a secret, and he began to publish it to all the people? This secret is that she had a problem and can't get pregnant and he began to say that "she cheated me and she knew about her situation before?" .. More

  • Shaking hands with non-Mahrams

    Recently I visited a Fatawa website. In response to a question the mufti stated it is permissible to shake hands with non-Mahrems, if it is done without desire. I have never read anything in the Hadith that state such. Can you please throw light on this matter?.. More

  • Studying in USA, working around forbidden things, and relations with father

    1) I went to USA for study, but they told me that is forbidden to live in a non-Muslim country and it's forbidden to work in places when there is, for example, pork or other forbidden things even though no other Halal jobs exist. As you know, its difficult to find a job there.2) My father makes a lot of differences between his sons and its difficult.. More