Naming Children
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Do the children of two sisters who were suckled by the same mother become brothers by suckling, whether they are adults or infants, or is that limited only to those who were suckled?
What is the ruling on the crime of genocide—defined in the 1949 international convention as any act committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, and including killing its members, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group—in Islamic jurisprudence and Sharia?
How can the prohibition of statues (images) in the home be reconciled with the presence of children's toys (such as dolls, puppets, and figurines of birds and animals)? And should one dispose of them when children grow up and then repurchase them for a new child? Is it permissible to buy them before the child arrives or to keep them in children's rooms for decoration?
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Is it permissible for a father to compel his children to spend on the household and cover the expenses of his new accommodation, given their need for money and the father's financial independence?
Is the husband considered sinful for not being able to provide for his children from his divorced wife, especially after he requested their custody and she refused, and is she considered sinful for preventing him from seeing and speaking with them?
Is it permissible for the guardian of a child to break the shoulder of a female teacher who broke his son’s shoulder, based on what camera recordings showed of her abusing children? And what should he do?
Is it permissible for a mother to say to her son: "May my God destroy me"?
What is the religious ruling on naming a son "Butti"?
Does a mother who abandoned her children in exchange for money have the right to demand money from them after they grow up and become employed, given that they are in need of this money?
What is the meaning of the supplication, "My Lord, leave me not solitary, and You are the best of inheritors"?
Is a working wife obligated to spend on the household and assist her husband if he experiences a financial crisis, and what is the ruling if she does not do so?
Is it permissible to take medication to induce lactation for the purpose of breastfeeding a child in order to establish fosterage (radha'ah), and would this milk be harmful to the child?
How is the estate of a deceased man divided, who left behind two wives (one of whom has 4 sons and 2 daughters, and the other has no children) and 3 brothers?
Is it permissible for a mother to appear before her 14-year-old son's friends without covering her head, knowing that they come to the house to study or play?
How is the estate of a deceased man, amounting to one hundred thousand, to be distributed among a son, a father, a mother, a daughter, a wife, and a full sister?
What are the controls and limits of filial piety regarding parental interference in their children's lives, such as their academic specialization, forbidding them from going out, and assigning them tasks that affect their studies? Is not obeying them in these matters, while gently discussing it with them, considered disobedience (aqūq)? What is the Sharia-based justification for the lack of obligation to obey in these cases?
How is the inheritance divided among: six sons, thirteen grandsons, three paternal half-brothers, one paternal half-nephew, two daughters, nine granddaughters, one great-granddaughter, and a wife?
Does the brother have the right to demand the annulment of a contract for selling a portion of the mother's inheritance to her daughter, knowing that the mother had instructed the girl to build a mosque on a portion of the land gifted to her?
Is it permissible for the wife to secretly take money from her husband to buy the children's necessities and save part of it, knowing that her husband is wealthy but stingy in spending?
What is the meaning of the noble verse: "then let another woman suckle for him" [Quran 65:6], and does it mean the obligation to bring another wet nurse? And is the verse "And if you wish to have your children suckled by a wet nurse, there is no blame upon you" [Quran 2:233] considered an indicator that changes the ruling from obligation to permissibility?
Why does Islam obligate a son to gain his parents' approval of his wife, and do parents have the right to control all their children's affairs?
What is the ruling on naming children Mutawakkil or Wathiq?
How is inheritance divided among two daughters, a son, and a hermaphrodite, all children of the deceased?