Fostering and Guardianship
155 questions
Is it permissible for an illegitimate child to communicate with his biological father and his siblings from him, and is it permissible for him to conceal the secret of his birth from his maternal siblings, and who inherits from him, and has he committed a prohibited act against his siblings in the same house?
Is what the questioner feels by way of hatred towards his father, as a result of his father's poor treatment of his mother and children, considered disobedience to parents, and what advice can be offered to him and his mother?
What should a wife do who wishes to separate from her husband due to his ill-treatment and failure to provide for her, but fears divorce and its impact on their adopted child, while also seeking not to relinquish her right to separate?
Is it permissible for a mother to breastfeed her cousin's daughter so that she becomes a sister to her children, even though there is no need for it?
What are my duties toward my wife's child? May I give him my name, or may he call me "father", while his own father is alive?
What is the ruling of Islamic law on a relative adopting an illegitimate child and naming him after her husband, then trying to bequeath her apartment to him despite her sisters' refusal, especially with the potential existence of legitimate parents for the child, and how can she be convinced to retract this?
What is the ruling on a wealthy woman adopting a child or a person and giving him her surname or naming him "Goodwill Ambassador for Human Protection"?
Is it permissible for a woman who is caring for orphans—some of whom are her own children and some the children of her husband—to use the donations and aid received for them for general expenses such as electricity and house rent, or must the donation be allocated to each orphan separately?
Is it permissible to combine the private funds of the two orphans with the mother's money for the household and daughters' expenses?
Is it permissible for me, according to Islamic law, to inherit the house from my adoptive father, knowing that adoption is forbidden? What should I do in this difficult situation? Is my marriage valid? What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding adoptive parents? Is there expiation if they made a mistake? What about using their non-original family surname in all my official documents?
How can one conceal sponsorships from one's family without lying to them, and what is the ruling on delaying a sponsorship payment for a month or two due to financial hardship?
What is meant by the ruling of interdicting a father, what are its legitimate reasons, and is the consent of the heirs a condition?
What is the ruling on disposing of funds from aid and gifts given to the family of a martyr, and what is the share of each of the wife, the daughter, the martyr's parents, and his siblings from it? Is it permissible for the wife to dispose of her daughter's money to complete her university education?
What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding the marriage of a foundling girl who was raised by a man and attributed to him, while she is unaware of her adoption, and a young man has proposed to her, but her guardians refuse to inform him of the truth about her lineage?
Would a girl adopted by a childless couple and then breastfed by the paternal uncle's wife by suckling, consider all members of the paternal family by suckling to be her cousins?
Is it permissible to revoke the guardianship of a father who consumes alcohol and drugs and beats his daughters, knowing that their mother is divorced and lives in her own private accommodation?
Is it permissible to stop financially sponsoring an orphan when one is unable to continue doing so?
Is it permissible to name the son a name different from the father's name, such that the father's name becomes the third name in the son's composite name, with the addition of the tribe's title?
What is the ruling on one who knew and concealed the matter of adoption? And is disobedience to adoptive parents considered real disobedience? And what is the ruling on adoption itself? And what is the ruling on the biological mother who abandoned her child due to her illness and then returned after 22 years? And is her disobedience forbidden? And what are the duties incumbent upon a son after reaching maturity, knowing a person from his real family without knowing the kinship tie?
Is it permissible to sponsor an orphan while fearing the inability to continue providing for him due to possible future circumstances?
How should children act when their mother refuses to return a child of unknown parentage to his mother, insisting on raising him despite the financial burdens and the necessity of proving his lineage for school enrollment?
Is it permissible for "Azad," the youngest son of "Juwairiyah," to marry the daughter of his maternal uncle "Ahmed," given that "Juwairiyah" breastfed her brother "Ahmed" with the milk of her son "Nuri" only in 1957, without her knowledge of the rulings on breastfeeding, and without knowing the number of feedings, and two other women briefly shared with her in breastfeeding "Ahmed" due to "Ahmed's" mother's illness, and with the intention of saving his life, not adoption, and do the exceptions of mahramiyyah (prohibition of marriage) by breastfeeding or degrees of kinship apply in this case?
What is the brothers' duty towards their orphaned, unmarried sister, and what is the ruling on their negligence in caring for her due to their fear of their wives? Are the rights of the wife and family to be given precedence over the rights of the orphaned sister? Will a person be punished for this negligence?
What is the ruling on one who concealed his daughter's adultery and her giving birth to a child, and then attributed the child to himself as if it were his son from his wife, knowing that she has repented?