Angels and the Unseen
1,376 questions
Is it permissible to marry a young man of faith and good character, who is a حافظ (Hafiz, memorizer) of the Book of Allah, but who belongs to the Tijaniyya Zawiya (Sufi order)?
What is the Barelvi sect and what are their beliefs?
What is the ruling on dealing with someone who claims to know the unseen, using papers and amulets for healing, and is it permissible to share meals with him, greet him, and pray behind him, given that he sometimes leads people in prayer and refuses advice?
What is the ruling on retrieving money with the help of someone who deals with jinn, or on committing suicide, to solve a serious financial problem?
How sound are these Hadiths: "The martyr has six merits with Allah: he is forgiven with the first drop of blood, he sees his seat in Paradise, he is spared the torment of the grave, he is safe from the Great Terror, a crown of dignity is placed on his head, a single ruby from which is better than the world and all that is in it, he is married to seventy-two wives from among the Hur al-'Ain, and he intercedes for seventy of his relatives," and "What is the matter with the believers that they are afflicted in their graves except the martyr? He said: The flashing of swords over his head is enough of an affliction"?
How can the sun prostrate beneath the Throne and return to its setting place, knowing that it is in constant motion and does not return to any place?
What is the ruling on the statement that knowing envy is not part of the knowledge of the unseen, and that jinn can recognize the envied person by looking at him or into his eyes, and does this statement necessitate disbelief or is it a sin?
What is the difference between the Dawoodi Bohra Shiites and the Rafidah Shiites in religion? Are they worse than the Twelver Shiites? Is their saying "Ya Ali Madad" (O Ali, help) and "Ya Hussein" and some of them prostrating to their Imam considered major shirk (polytheism)? What is the ruling on declaring them disbelievers? Are all of them to be judged as disbelievers, or are they misguided with a belief that contains disbelief, and the declaration of an individual's disbelief depends on establishing the proof against them?
How can one differentiate between sorcerers and charlatans and those who treat with the Qur'an, and is it permissible to seek the help of Muslim jinn in treatment? What are the prophetic supplications for someone afflicted by poverty or whose livelihood has become difficult, and how can one avoid and get rid of the magic of poverty?
Is interpreting dreams and interpreting the symbols mentioned within them, such as abduction and embrace, forbidden or permissible?
Is it obligatory to excommunicate a priest who claims knowledge of the unseen and makes it his profession, and if so, am I obligated to investigate his circumstances?
Is the "unveiling of inspiration" that Sufis claim regarding knowledge of the unseen real in Islam, in light of what is narrated about Umar, may Allah be pleased with him?
Is a life partner a choice made by the individual or a destiny decreed by God?
What is the ruling on their saying that someone saw the future?
How did the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, come to know the signs of the Hour and so on, and did Allah inform him of them, bearing in mind that he did not speak concerning religion of his own accord?
Is it true that in Hell there is a valley called Habhab in which only those who caused sorrow, misery, and wretchedness to people are punished?
Does a person know of the approach of their death, and is it permissible to supplicate for a long life?
Is what was circulated about a vision of Mecca, involving the raising of the Noble Quran and the appearance of Planet Nibiru in 2011, which would lead to the sun rising from the West as the first of the major signs of the Hour, true?
Is it permissible to recite the mentioned fortress (Hissn): "I have fortified myself with the fortress; its foundation is 'There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,' and its walls are 'Peace - a word from a Merciful Lord,' and its circle is 'Successive [angels] before him and behind him, protecting him by command of Allah.' 'Hamata Lamata, indeed the lion is my concern, my arrow has scattered, it has penetrated by the grace of 'In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful: Say, 'I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak from the evil of that which He created; and from the evil of darkness when it settles; and from the evil of the blowers in knots; and from the evil of an envier when he envies.'' 'In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful: Say, 'I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind, the Sovereign of mankind, the God of mankind, from the evil of the retreating whisperer - who whispers [evil] into the breasts of mankind - from among the jinn and mankind.'' I have fortified myself with the Ever-Living, the Sustainer, who never dies, and I have repelled evil with a thousand, thousand 'There is no might nor power except with Allah, the Most High, the Most Great.' And may Allah bless Muhammad and his pure progeny"?
What is the ruling of the Sharia concerning dealing with a man who throws the Qur’an and tramples on it, believing that the Qur’an will not benefit his bewitched wife, and who believes in sorcerers to seek benefit and avert harm, and who is not committed to prayer?
What do you advise me, as I have been afflicted with the obsession of death, and I have come to believe in the superstition that a person feels the approach of their death 40 days beforehand, which has made me count the days as if I know the unseen?
What is the religious ruling regarding the deceiver who claims to know the thief through a bowl of water and a child, and is it permissible to pray behind him and accompany him?
What is the group "al-Thaqalayn" that adopts Ahmadiyya, and is the Hadith "Hussein is from me, and I am from him" authentic?
What is the motivation for adhering to Islam and believing in the message of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and in his Book and Sunnah? And what is the meaning of the Quranic challenge mentioned in His Almighty's saying: "Then let them produce a discourse like it, if they are truthful"?