Hajj on Behalf of Another
427 questions
What is the ruling on using wireless headphones found in the lost and found box for four months, which have been in my possession for three months, given the impossibility of finding their owner?
Is it permissible to perform the Istikhara prayer on behalf of another person?
Is it permissible to purchase a copy of the Qur’an with the intention of it being an endowment (waqf) on behalf of one’s deceased parents, while the purchaser reads from it at home and dedicates the reward of the recitation (khatmah) to them?
Is it permissible for someone studying in a European country to authorize his siblings in his home country to slaughter his sacrificial animal on his behalf, especially since the European country requires the slaughtered animal to be submitted for medical examination for three days, which prevents benefiting from it during the Eid, and he will return to his home country after a week?
What is the ruling on stealing items whose value does not reach the nisab, or free items, and is repentance alone sufficient, or must they be returned or their value restituted?
Is the transaction that involves the bank's purchase of a metal and its sale to the client in installments, followed by the bank's sale of the metal to another company and giving the client a check in the name of the sonar company, permissible in Islamic law for purchasing a sonar device?
Is it permissible not to slaughter the Hady (sacrificial animal) during Hajj Al-Tamattu', and what is incumbent upon one who does not slaughter it?
Is it permissible for me to recite the Qur’an on behalf of my unlettered father with the intention that he receives the reward for the recitation, and if it is not permissible, what can be done to compensate him for the reward of reciting the Qur’an?
How can a man who owes "dam" for abandoning an obligatory ritual of Hajj absolve himself of liability, and is it permissible for him to appoint someone else to slaughter a sheep for the poor of the Haram these days, or must he wait until the next Hajj season?
Is it obligatory to pay the expiatory feeding of sixty poor people for the sin of my deceased father, who said to his wife, "You are to me as the back of my mother"?
Is it permissible to inquire about another young man for the purpose of marriage, given the existence of an initial approval for a first suitor, before the engagement becomes official?
What is the ruling on buying Saudi Riyals found in another country, with the equivalent in Egyptian Pounds being paid in the contracting session, given that the Riyals were not seized in the contracting session?
Is it permissible to give charity with the intention that its reward be for a living non-Muslim in the building of a mosque, and will this non-Muslim person receive good deeds?
What is the ruling on money acquired from increasing the price of goods purchased on behalf of another person without their knowledge?
Is it permissible for a person suffering from a chronic illness, who is 56 years old and in debt, to secure the necessary funds for Hajj from relatives or friends or by selling some of his possessions?
Is there an expiation for violating the deceased's dying wish to have his country's flag placed on him, a wish that was not remembered or carried out at the time of his death?
Is using clothes without their owners' knowledge and then returning them without informing them a sin that necessitates financial rights, or is returning them sufficient? And is it obligatory to inform their owners of that, or is it enough to supplicate for them and give charity on their behalf to avoid problems?
Does our neighbor have the right to demand a sum of money in exchange for cleaning the building's staircase for past years, especially since she did not inform us of that beforehand and the requested amount is exaggerated?
Is the questioner required to do anything for telling the seller that the device is "broken," even though she did not know the real reason at the time, and is this considered concealing the truth?
Must the heirs pay a sum to a person who paid it to the tax office on their behalf, knowing that this person was not authorized to do so, and that the payment was to enable him to make changes to the shop which was owned by the heirs?
Is the thief absolved if he repents and returns what he stole, while not being certain that his friends have returned the amounts they stole?
What is the explanation of the hadith: "Whoever intercedes for his brother with an intercession, and he gifts him a gift for it, and he accepts it, then he has approached a great door from the doors of usury"?
Is it permissible to conceal the intention of going for Hajj and evade answering questions related to it to avoid food banquets, and is it permissible to refuse gifts for the same reason?
What is the ruling on the Hajj of one who possesses investment certificates, but whose funds for Hajj are from another source?