Doubts and Questions
209 questions
Does impurity transfer by touch if a person doubts the impurity of a place, garment, or body, or if a wet impurity has dried?
What should I do about my doubt concerning the fasting of my early years of puberty, and do I have to make up for those days?
Is doubting the recitation of Al-Fatiha during prayer or doubting one's ablution while performing it considered hesitation in worship, and does it invalidate it?
What should a person do who forgot whether they uttered an oath or a promise to God, when the promise was in the heart?
Is it necessary to completely dry the vulva after istinja for someone who intermittently experiences air bubbles exiting from it, and can what exits from the vulva be considered air if one can control what exits from the anus?
Is ghusl obligatory if one doubts the emission of semen due to obsessive whispering (waswasa), and what are the implications of that?
What extensive books on Creed do you recommend after reading the well-known short and medium-sized ones?
Is there any doubt concerning an oath – whether it was sworn by God or by divorce – such that it only necessitates an expiation for a broken oath (kaffarat yameen) in the Shafi'i school, excluding Ar-Ramli's opinion? And can an oath be valid with only the sound emitted without moving the tongue and lips? And is sound without moving the lips and tongue forgivable in the Shafi'i school? And is doubt about lip movement disregarded if one is certain that the lips and tongue did not move?
What is the ruling on describing a sin as beautiful and committing it without denouncing it, knowing that Islam has considered it evil and denounced it?
What is the ruling on one who feels a drop of urine exit after istinja and wudu, and must the garment affected by it be washed, and is prayer in it valid?
Will God forgive a young man afflicted with OCD who doubts creed and curses to himself without uttering it, and who fears that he will not be forgiven?
Is a slight, involuntary leakage of urine excused, and must one inspect one's underwear before every prayer in this case?
Does a divorce take place if the spouses do not remember the details of what was said between them during a quarrel, while the husband remembers that he did not utter an explicit divorce, and the wife informs him that she spoke to her mother about the possibility of divorce, and the husband later refuses to answer questions about divorce, and then the matter is reconciled between them?
What is the ruling regarding someone who suffers from obsessive doubts (waswasa) about the presence of the name of Allah (Jalalah) on papers and products, and is it obligatory for him to search and scrutinize them? What should he do if he sees others acting carelessly towards this? And is his going out for entertainment considered forbidden because of these obsessive doubts?
Should I act according to Fatwa No. 161688 regarding my divorce not having occurred, based on the presumption of obsessive doubts, even if I was not suffering from obsessive doubts about divorce at that time? And is there any blame upon me for retracting from the fatwa in the fifth case, knowing that I have recently learned of a difference of opinion among scholars regarding the permissibility of retraction, and that one afflicted with obsessive doubts may adopt the easiest of opinions to alleviate hardship?
How is prayer corrected when in doubt about the number of rak'ahs, is it by saying the tasleem and performing the prostration of forgetfulness, or by finishing the prayer and then performing the prostration of forgetfulness?
Does a person's Wudu' become void if they pass over impure places in the house?