Eating in Non Muslim Countries
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Is it permissible to propose to a girl who is engaged under duress, and does this fall under the Prophet’s prohibition of proposing when one's brother has already proposed?
What is the ruling on burial in a non-Islamic country, in a coffin, and in mixed cemeteries, knowing that Muslims have a separate plot within them?
How should one deal with non-Muslim sisters and a non-Muslim father, and is it permissible to seek help from Christian sisters?
Is it permissible to use beer that contains alcohol as a sunblock against the sun's rays, and is purchasing it unlawful even if it is not consumed?
Is it permissible to uncover the eyes or the entire face in the car at night?
What is the ruling on becoming infatuated with a non-Muslim actress and becoming attached to her to the point of wishing to marry her, given the inability to stop feeling this way? And what are the consequences of continuing in this?
What is the ruling on eating meat available in Australia about which a Muslim is not certain if it was slaughtered according to Islamic law, and does it fall under the ruling of the food of the People of the Book? And what is your advice regarding going to a distant mosque to perform the daily prayers?
Is it permissible to treat Tunisian society as a whole as disbelievers, based on the widespread phenomenon of insulting religion and the Divine Majesty within it, and the ignorance of its consequences, and the necessity of not eating with them, or marrying them, or praying behind their imams?
How does Ibn al-Qayyim permit a man to masturbate with the hand of a young girl or a non-Muslim woman who is not fasting if he fears the rupture of his bladder or testicles during Ramadan?
What is the ruling on declaring someone who openly commits a sin and shows no regard for religion to be a disbeliever (kafir)? Is it obligatory to establish proof against him before declaring him a disbeliever, or is he immediately declared a disbeliever without establishing proof?
In the absence of a Sharia court or a Sharia judge in a non-Muslim country like Germany, and if the continuation of the marriage between the spouses becomes impossible, and the husband refuses to divorce his wife after she has returned to him all that is his due, what is the way to end this marriage, and what is the body to which the woman can resort to separate them?
Is it permissible for a Muslim woman to wear short gloves that reveal part of her forearms near the hands?
Is it permissible to create a website and appoint women and men of different nationalities as teachers, knowing that some of the women may be unveiled or non-Muslim? And does the ruling differ if the matter concerns appointing them in a company?
Is it better for a woman to wear the niqab or to preach about Allah with her face uncovered?
Are the names "Al-Wali" and "Mawlana" among the Most Beautiful Names of Allah, and is it permissible to name people with them?
Is it possible for a person to be afflicted with various calamities regarding their honor and the honor of their family due to not lowering their gaze from Muslim and non-Muslim women and practicing masturbation, or is the ill-effect of sin limited to specific calamities?
How does a Muslim marry a Christian woman if she was married to a Christian man and then left him, if Islam is a condition for the validity of divorce?
Must a woman who secretly married, and whose husband then divorced her, observe the waiting period ('iddah), and what is its duration?
Is it permissible for a male doctor to return an embryo to a barren woman's womb without her knowledge and consent, despite her strong refusal and preference for divorce over a man being exposed to her, knowing that a female doctor is not skilled in this procedure and only men are?
Is it permissible for a Muslim woman to befriend a non-Muslim woman if the latter is modest and well-mannered, without neglecting her own religion, and is there a severe punishment for doing so?
Can a wife seek divorce from her husband who has changed and become violent, and who refuses to divorce her, especially given that she lives in a non-Islamic country, and is it permissible for her to appoint a shaykh to divorce her from him according to Islamic law?
Is a person considered to be abandoning those he is responsible for if he leaves his daughter in a non-Islamic country and travels to a Muslim country, knowing that he could stay to regain custody of her, but he fears raising his new children in a non-Islamic society?
Is money earned from a company with a cheating partner lawful or unlawful? And how should one dispose of money if it is known to have been earned unlawfully? Is it permissible to employ a non-Muslim or immodestly dressed secretary in an office predominantly occupied by men?
Is it permissible to give Buddhist and pagan disbelievers meat from the sacrifice?