Eating in Non Muslim Countries
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Is it permissible for a Muslim girl - who is not committed [to religious observance] - to marry and travel to live with her fiancé - who is also not committed [to religious observance] - in Australia, knowing that he was born and raised there, and what is your advice to her religiously committed family?
What is the meaning of Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab's statement: "Perhaps a worshipper has no good in him"? And what is the ruling on migrating to a Muslim country if the father refuses unless there are official conditions, given that many Muslim countries do not accept immigrants, especially the lands of the Two Holy Mosques?
Does the Hadith: "The hungriest people on the Day of Resurrection will be those who were most sated in this world" indicate a dislike for satiety or eating, and what does it consequently require of a Muslim?
How can a woman perform ablution while wearing her hijab in the street or in exposed places? Is it permissible for her to perform tayammum in this situation? What should she do if she cannot find dust for tayammum?
Is it permissible in Islamic law for a person to supplicate to Allah Almighty that he may speak to or see an angel?
Is it permissible to continue communicating with a non-Muslim woman with the intention of marrying her after she embraces Islam, and will the husband be held accountable for her not adhering to the teachings of Islam after his death?
Is divorcing a wife for the the third time considered valid if two previous verbal divorces were documented in court? And is marrying an American woman for the sake of residency and benefit forbidden?
Is it permissible for a Christian woman to have custody of children after the death of her Muslim husband?
Is it permissible to marry a Catholic woman pregnant from adultery committed with her? Does marriage expiate adultery? Does the child remain illegitimate after marriage? And is an illegitimate child not blessed like a child born of lawful marriage?
Is it obligatory for the wife to obey her husband concerning traveling to America to visit him with their daughters, despite her fears of aggression against Muslims, her fear of traveling alone by plane, and her concern for her daughter's educational level?
Is the questioner sinful for sometimes eating and drinking from the employers' house without explicit permission? And is it incumbent upon her to seek absolution from them, given that reaching them is difficult? And what is the way out if absolution is not obtained? And does the sin of backbiting and delving into people's reputations apply to her if seeking absolution from them is impossible? And does the warning of the bankrupt person on the Day of Judgment apply to her?
What is the ruling on marrying a non-Muslim American woman in Islam?
Is it permissible to allow non-Muslim guests (an unmarried man and woman) to request a single room in a hotel?
Does disbelief occur in the following situations: laughing upon hearing mistakes in Al-Fatiha, or placing one's foot next to papers containing the name of Allah, or placing religious books beneath others, or placing a book of Fiqh or Tawhid on the ground, or turning one's back to the Qiblah while sitting, or greeting and smiling at a non-Muslim female restaurant worker, or placing a bag containing a mobile phone with Qur'an and supplications near one's feet in the car, or walking near small paper scraps that might contain the name of Allah, or stepping on them?
What is the ruling on marriage if suggestive phrases such as "I take you as the lord of the house," or "I accept you as my man," or "I make an alliance with you" are used during its ceremony?
What is the ruling on a Muslim woman marrying a Muslim man while she is pregnant by her non-Muslim husband, whom she left immediately after her conversion to Islam, and then she married the Muslim man before the 'iddah period ended? And what is the ruling on a Muslim woman not wearing the niqab if her husband obliges her to wear it, but she is not ready for it?
How should a Muslim woman deal with her non-Muslim family members who do not accept her دعوتها (invitation to Islam), and should she continue to maintain ties of kinship with them or limit her relationship with them?
Is it permissible for a man to marry a woman with whom he committed fornication—provided that both have repented—knowing that the Ibadi school of thought considers it forbidden for a fornicator to marry the woman with whom he committed fornication, even if they have repented, citing statements of the Companions such as "They shall never be united" and "If two fornicators marry, they are fornicators forever"?
Is it permissible to marry with a false contract for the purpose of leaving a non-Muslim country, in accordance with the rule "necessities permit the forbidden," in order to spare children corruption and protect them from the influence of non-Muslim society?
Is it permissible to describe a non-Muslim as a "disbeliever" (kafir), even if they acknowledge another religion, and is this exclusively for scholars to do?
Is learning the German language and the expenses the father paid for studying medicine in Germany considered a necessity that permits studying in mixed-gender universities?
Is it permissible to eat chicken slaughtered by a non-Muslim (Buddhist or irreligious person) in a chicken shop, if I pronounce the Basmalah and the Takbir while he is slaughtering it?
Is it permissible for a Muslim father to attend the wedding of his Christian daughter who married a Christian man?
What is the ruling on a Muslim man marrying a Muslim woman of a different Arab nationality?