Faith and Disbelief
902 questions
Does the questioner become a disbeliever in the following cases: due to his whispers that led him to fear creatures more than Allah, and abandoning prayer, and intentionally delaying it, or slandering scholars, or praying the Sunnah for fear of being described as a hypocrite? And is his feeling of extreme remorse after knowing that slandering scholars is disbelief sufficient for him to become a Muslim?
Is it permissible to supplicate for strength and tall stature?
How can one repent and get rid of the many ugly thoughts about Allah and His Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, some of which are considered worse than disbelief and from which there is no repentance?
Does committing sins after Umrah invalidate its reward, and what should I do to return to the state of faith I was in after Umrah?
Is the book "Mujarrabat Ibn Sirin, by Ibn Sina" science or incantations, and is it permissible to act upon mujarrabat as long as there is no dealing with jinn?
What is the ruling concerning a Muslim ruler who does not govern by Islamic Sharia, and is he permitted to do so based on the jurisprudence of gradualism (fiqh al-tadarruj)?
How does a person achieve inner peace?
Was I right not to declare my friend an infidel (kafir) after he cursed the religion while angry, or should I have unequivocally declared him one?
Does falling into forbidden acts, believing them to be out of necessity or an exception, constitute making the forbidden permissible, thereby leading one out of the faith?
What should one do if they feel an aversion to prayer, so they seek refuge [with Allah] and ask for forgiveness?
Is repentance from ideological disbelief valid for one who has fallen into it without excuse, and will this repentance be accepted such that the person becomes a Muslim in reality and in ruling, outwardly and inwardly, or is repentance in this case unavailing and the person remains an apostate?
What is "predominant conjecture"? Is predominant conjecture permissible in matters of faith? And is "conjecture" in His — the Almighty’s — saying: (Those who are certain that they will meet their Lord and that to Him they will return) the predominant conjecture?
Is what was mentioned concerning the states of the hypocrites on the Day of Resurrection – their inability to prostrate during the gathering, their being prevented from drinking from the Basin, and the extinguishing of their light when crossing the Sirat – correct?
How can one deal with obsessive thoughts that cause doubt about disbelief, especially upon seeing foreigners and fearing the unwitting excommunication of a Muslim, while at the same time fearing not to excommunicate Jews, Christians, and polytheists?
Is leaving someone listening at home to songs or TV shows that include religious terms considered apostasy (kufr), by analogy with the ruling on one who leaves a newspaper containing religious terms on the ground?
Does belief in the invalidity of disbelief (kufr) mean not being pleased with it, or, in other words, the heart's denial of it, even if the Muslim does not feel any hatred towards the denier?
Do the obsessions and thoughts that cross a Muslim's mind, specifically what he said to himself when he saw the Christian: "This person has no obsessions and does not suffer from anxieties like me; all he has to do is utter the two testimonies of faith, and Allah, the Almighty, will forgive him what has passed. As for me, I live in anxieties and remember past situations that contained blasphemous words. Sometimes I pray, and sometimes I repeat the two testimonies, and at other times I return to the blasphemous words, so I cannot limit or specify the periods in which I was a believer and the periods in which I was an unbeliever," indicate contentment with disbelief?
ما هو معنى "جنس العمل"؟
What is the ruling on prostrating to graves according to Imam Al-Dhahabi specifically, and according to other scholars generally? And does his statement: "Likewise, the saying regarding a Muslim prostrating to the grave of the Prophet, peace be upon him, out of reverence and veneration, does not make him an infidel at all, but rather he is disobedient" contradict the saying of the Prophet, peace be upon him: "May Allah curse the Jews and Christians who took the graves of their prophets as places of worship"?
Is a person's questioning of whom they pray to and worship and where God is, accompanied by recurring intrusive thoughts that compel them to perform ghusl and renew their Islam, considered an act of disbelief (kufr) in God? And what is the way to avoid the influence of these intrusive thoughts?
How were the ten generations between Noah and Adam all upon faith, considering that Idris was sent to a polytheistic people before Noah?
Can the words of Muhammad Rashid Rida concerning the meaning of al-mawaddah (affection/love), especially his saying: "So the sharing by the believing lover of Allah and His Messenger with the one who opposes Allah and His Messenger in the affection that is based on their respective attributes is a combination of two opposites, and it is in the meaning of befriending them, but even more specific than that," be explained and clarified?
Does one who smiles at a scene mocking religion, despite inwardly resisting it and their heart disapproving of the mocker, leave the fold of Islam and have their deeds nullified?
What is the ruling on joining and participating in the Christian and Jewish program "Facebook," especially for those weak in faith who are not people of knowledge, knowing that preachers and sheikhs join it to guide the weak and help them in their devotion to Allah?