Divine Decree
- What are the best faith-based tips (Qiyam al-Layl, reading Surat al-Baqarah, best Dhikr) that can help my sister suffering from metastatic breast cancer, taking into account her struggle with the effect of the "evil eye"?
- Is the method mentioned for treating someone afflicted by the evil eye, which is practiced in Morocco, namely, using a cup of water, matchsticks, and reciting Al-Fatiha, considered to be in any way part of Islam?
- Is grumbling about one's fate, even if not fully conscious, considered an act of disbelief (kufr)? And what are the consequences of such an act?
- What is the punishment for watching dubbed series, and do they delay marriage?
- How can a female student reconcile her reliance on Allah and her supplication to Him for success, despite her academic shortcomings, with the high grades her peers achieve without great effort? And is this considered a divine decree and a test, or a punishment for not taking the necessary means?
- Is she considered an unbeliever, one who wished that the period of menstruation were limited to specific days to avoid confusion, intending that what Allah has decreed is not the best?
- Would you please inform me of the Islamic view on spiritual paths?
- What is your advice and how can parents be persuaded to approve their daughter's marriage to a man who has recovered from cancer, knowing that they fear a relapse of the disease, while the girl believes in divine decree and destiny?
- Is minor obsessive whispering a divine decree or a satanic act with God's permission?
- Does supplication avert divine decree?
- How can a betrothed woman maintain a lawful relationship with her sick fiancé that does not displease Allah, given her knowledge of the difficulty of completing the marriage at the present time?
- ما هي الاختلافات الرئيسية بين الطوائف الإسلامية، على الرغم من أن الإسلام دين واحد؟
- How can one deal with the loss of patience and certainty after a severe tribulation, and is what happened a punishment or a trial?
- Is returning to Egypt and leaving a prestigious job in Saudi Arabia considered a form of ingratitude for Allah's blessings and a lack of contentment with His divine decree, especially since the employers wish for me to stay?
- What is the status of patience (sabr) in Islam? And what should a Muslim be patient about?
- Are visions and dreams—whether good or evil, and whether related to this world or the hereafter—considered an unalterable decree (al-qada' al-mubram) or a suspended decree (al-qada' al-mu'allaq)? Can their evil be averted? And how did the Companions supplicate for wretchedness to be turned into happiness, when it is an unalterable decree?
- What is the benefit of asking and supplicating to Allah and striving, since Allah's decree is what will come to pass, especially in the الاستخارة prayer?
- Does a person become an infidel if he blames his mother for causing his phone to get dirty – a phone he had washed fearing it would be damaged – believing that the situation would have been different had a problem not occurred between her and his brother, and is he required to inform those who heard him say that?
- Is it permissible to memorize and recite what is written in the history book: "The pharaohs worshipped Pharaoh (i.e., God incarnate on Earth)"? And what is the ruling on writing or having others hear what is written in the social studies book: "Attributing sustenance to divine decree and destiny is a superstition"?
- Is it permissible to say, "If I were a man, I would be a mujahid (one who strives in the path of God)," and "If I were a man, I would be praying in the mosque," out of intense love for these deeds and not as an objection to divine decree or a belief in altering destiny?
- How does a servant choose his actions when they are Allah's preordainment and destiny, and why will he be held accountable for them on the Day of Resurrection?
- Are predestination and divine decree created?
- Are the repeated obstacles I face when pursuing something, after performing Istikhara and relying on Allah, considered a sign from Allah that this matter should not be completed, and is this view correct in Islam?
- What is the ruling on saying: "O wound with no healer"?