What is the ruling regarding extending [the greeting of] as-salaam [‘alaykum] to the disbelievers, particularly if it is for the sake of da’wah?
Category: Manners & Etiquette
Garment is soiled with an impurity, but don’t know exactly where
If a garment is soiled with an impurity, and I do not know exactly where, am I obliged to completely wash the garment?
Cleaning a mobile phone which has an impurity on it
How should a mobile phone which has dropped into impure water be cleaned, since washing it [with pure water] will damage it?
Cleaning himself and his clothes from dog saliva
How should a person clean himself from the impurity [of the saliva] of a dog, if it licked his skin or clothes?
Maintaining ties of kinship despite relatives cutting off from him
I stopped speaking to my older brother for a period of years, and that was [only] to avoid problems – so what is the ruling regarding that? And is what I did correct?
Our elderly grandfather
We have an elderly grandfather who is particularly ill mannered. And we fear Allaah if we were to leave him to sit by himself, and yet if we sit with him, he is very obscene in his speech – something which is not befitting of someone of his age!
I don’t want to look after my mother any more
After what I have experienced of her for the last 14 years, I no longer want to be responsible for her.
My mother asks me too many questions
[It was then that] her dealings with me began to change, and her love [towards me] changed to dislike, and my life with her became very difficult.
Reconciling between my parents and my wife
How should a Muslim reconcile between keeping his parents and happy and hi wife happy?
Quarrelling between my wife and my mother
I have been married for 5 years [now], and [unfortunately] there is always [some sort of] quarrel in the family. I have a mother and young brothers for whom I am solely responsible – as I am the [only] one who works and financially supports them.