Eating in Non Muslim Countries
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What is the jurisprudential ruling concerning a husband's forcing his wife to swear by placing her hand on the Qur'an that the seven children are his and that she has not betrayed him, given his subsequent feeling of remorse, and is he obligated to do anything towards his wife, who refuses to forgive him and threatens to hold him accountable before God?
What is the way to repent from backbiting a Christian man and thinking ill of him, considering the difficulty of informing him or informing those in front of whom he was backbitten, and is remorse, ceasing backbiting, and praising him in front of others sufficient?
Is it obligatory to impose the hijab on non-Muslim waitresses working in a restaurant primarily frequented by women, and what is the religious ruling if it is not imposed, given the difficulty of finding veiled waitresses?
Is it established that the Prophet, may God's prayers and peace be upon him, used to invite female disbelievers to Islam?
What is the ruling on meat imported from Islamic and non-Islamic countries, and what is the ruling on the meat of the People of the Book according to the majority of scholars?
Is it forbidden to work as a cleaner in a Christian slaughterhouse in France?
What is the ruling regarding a Christian wife, married to a Christian, who secretly embraces Islam, but remains in her relationship with her husband and children, knowing her family and husband would object to it, and keen not to break up her family?
Is it permissible to perform ablution (wudu') and prayer (salat) with water that was secretly reconnected after being cut off due to non-payment of the bill?
Is it permissible to work for German companies like Siemens in the field of industrial electricity and automation, and is it permissible to work for non-Muslim foreign companies in general, given that the governments of those companies are disbelievers and support the American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan?
Could you provide me with contact information for scholars from Kosovo or Bosnia regarding a private matter concerning a crucial fatwa? Is it permissible for me to emigrate to Western countries with my mother's verbal consent but not her heartfelt approval, given my promise to fulfill my obligations from there?
What is the ruling on living in a country where corruption is widespread, and what are the implications of that?
What is the difference between the punishments of Hadd and Ta'zir? And which of them is of a higher rank?
Is it permissible for a sister to take half of the house left to her by her husband and children after divorce, knowing that the house was purchased solely with the husband's money, and that the law grants her half of the family's assets as a personal right?
What is the cure for sodomy for a Muslim and a non-Muslim?
Is the nakedness of a disbelieving woman only the two private parts and the breasts? And what is the evidence for that in the four schools of thought?
Is it permissible for a Muslim notary to draft a contract for the sale of a tavern (a place for selling prohibited items) between a Muslim who has repented and a disbeliever?
What is the ruling on the awrah (private parts) of a Muslim woman in front of another Muslim woman, in light of the ongoing debate, and has the fatwa changed from "between the navel and the knee" to "like her awrah in front of her maharim" due to the spread of fitan (tribulations) and perversion, or is the original ruling still in effect?
Is it permissible for Muslim children residing in France to eat unslaughtered meat available in schools, knowing that it is not pork, due to the father's inability to provide them with other food?
Is it permissible for a girl who is about to get married and fears that it will disgust her husband to treat the darkening of her buttocks by chemical peeling at a doctor's office, or by other available means?
Is it permissible to expose one's 'awrah to a non-Muslim man/woman out of necessity for the treatment of hemorrhoids?
What is the ruling on drinking a Chinese medicinal beverage, extracted from the "Ameboshi" mushroom, that contains 1% alcohol, and does the principle "that which intoxicates in large quantities is forbidden in small quantities" apply to it?
Is it permissible to allow a male or female non-Muslim to sit in my place on the bus if they do not find a seat?
Is it permissible to fertilize the wife's eggs in the laboratory and select the healthy ones for transfer to the womb, in order to avoid transmitting a hereditary disease to the offspring, given that doctors confirm that 50% of the children will be exposed to this disease?
Should the couple give up their adopted daughter in obedience to the husband's parents, especially with fears for her well-being in a non-Muslim family, particularly since the adoption was from an institution that does not disclose her biological parents?