Angels and the Unseen
1,376 questions
What is the ruling on the saying: "You think you are abandoning prayer by your own will, but the truth is that God no longer wishes to meet you"?
Is it permissible to plan for the future by supplicating for a sequence of matters, knowing that taking the necessary means and exerting effort are impossible, or is this considered an transgression in supplication?
What is the ruling on sprinkling the grave with water every time one visits, and on rebuilding the grave and placing soil upon it after the soil level therein has lowered and it has become exposed? And does the deceased infant see and feel comforted by his parents?
What is the ruling on determining personality traits or uncovering what is going on in a person's mind through picture tests and body language, and does that contradict Allah's knowledge of the unseen?
What is the ruling on determining the sex of the fetus by computational methods, such as adding the number of days of the month in which menstruation occurred with the number of days of the month in which birth is expected, in addition to the sum of the letters of the mother's and grandmother's names, and then deducing the sex of the fetus based on whether the result is odd or even?
Does a Muslim commit an act of disbelief by saying to himself, "I know the unseen"?
Are the wide-eyed, fair maidens, untouched by man or jinn, mentioned in the Holy Qur'an, a single type for both humans and jinn, or are there maidens specifically for humans and others for jinn?
ما هو الموقع الذي يمكن من خلاله معرفة الأسماء المناسبة للمواليد؟
What is the ruling on predicting the results of sports matches via satellite channels that allocate financial rewards to those who correctly predict the result, knowing that the contestant must call in and answer?
Is Istikhara and how to perform it [or work with it]?
Is it permissible to go to sorcerers to undo magic, to know how the magic was done and where it is buried, and to know the person who performed the magic? Is this permissible?
Do angels possess intellect, and if so, is it similar to the intellect of human beings?
Is what the sister claims – that a sign descended from the sky bearing the Beautiful Names of Allah after her supplication, and that she knows what goes on in their homes and foretells what will happen to them – possible, or is it a psychological condition?
How accurate is the story of the atheistic Russian professor who claimed to have seen naked people burning in fire during a drilling mission in Siberia?
What are the most prominent verses of success (falah) in the Holy Quran, and what have the exegetes mentioned about them in their books?
How do these shaykhs who mention details of the unseen operate, and is this permissible in Islam, or is it dealing with jinn?
Is there a verse in the Holy Qur’an about the existence of different worlds other than Earth, and does it refer to the world of jinn and devils, or to intelligent life on other planets?
Does a mother's consent for her daughter to go to someone who "calculates with the Qur'an" with the aim of facilitating an engagement and finding a job constitute participation in polytheism (shirk), and does sin result from that?
What is the difference between angels, jinn, and devils, and are jinn present with us on Earth? How were they divided into good and disbelieving, how can one avoid the disbelieving among them, and what is the influence of good jinn on humans?
Is it true what a person claims, that he is a saint of God and an heir of the Messenger, and in contact with angels, and possesses supernatural powers? And who are the righteous saints of God at this time?
What is the ruling on the words of the spiritual shaykh who told the questioner that he was afflicted by the "lover jinn" (qareen al-ashiq), and that he would not succeed in his life and would divorce his wife?
What is the ruling on a ruqyah practitioner who reveals the name of the sorcerer or the envious person?
Is the father's fall while prostrating during the Asr prayer, and his subsequent coma until his death on Friday morning, considered a sign of a good ending?
What is the difference between supplication for someone present and supplication for someone absent, what are the conditions for each, is everyone who supplicates for someone absent committing shirk, and what is the ruling on saying "Ya Ali" or "Ya Hussein"?