[I am] a woman who spends a lot of time in gatherings with [other] women, and a lot of the time in these gatherings there is backbiting and mockery [of others].
Category: Scholars
Attending a party hosted by my relatives
If I attended a party hosted by my relatives, and there are a lot of reprehensible acts [going on], bearing in mind my presence there is only because I was invited – should I speak out against these reprehensible acts, or should I [just] leave the party?
The message of Islaam is for everyone
During the Messenger’s ﷺ time, did Islaam reach Europe? If it did, then how did it reach them, and how did they react?
Sincere advice to relatives
He is in the habit of visiting his relatives, and these relatives have some [things of a] reprehensible [nature] in their homes such as a satellite dish.
Slaughtering a chicken
After slaughtering the chicken, there still appears to be life in the chicken as it is still moving – so is it permissible to immediately place it in a tank of boiling water, because that helps remove all its feathers? And is this chicken permissible [for us] to eat?
Sick and diseased animals
[Consider the situation where] some of the animals have been afflicted with an illness and are in severe pain, or they have an infectious disease, is it befitting that they should be killed or left [alone]?
Effacing pictures in books
Should the pictures [of humans and creatures] in books be effaced? And does marking [the picture with] a line across the neck suffice in alleviating the prohibition?
Good treatment of parents
What is the best thing a Muslim can do for his parents during their life?
Exercising to the sound of music
In our country, women get together in a sports gym and dance to the sound of drums, claiming this is for physical exercise. Is this activity permissible?
Interrupting the adhkaar after the prayer with the Sunnah prayer
Is it permissible to interrupt [the uttering of] the words of remembrance (adhkaar) which are uttered after the [obligatory] prayer by praying the Sunnah prayer?