Women on Hajj
1,773 questions
How can one respond to the question: "If God exists and controls everything, then why do people kill each other?" and to the misconception that "there is injustice towards women in the religion of Islam"?
What is the ruling on speaking with a girl via email for the purpose of getting to know each other before engagement, if her guardian approves of it, and is it permissible to get to know her in this manner with the aim of marriage, while being careful not to fall into temptation?
What is the attire that a woman is permitted to wear in front of other women and her mahrams, and what is the ruling on the niqab – is it obligatory?
Does the Hadith: «For one of you to be stabbed in the head with an iron needle is better for him than to touch a woman who is not lawful for him» apply to women, and what is the ruling on their shaking hands with men if it does not apply?
Is it obligatory to shave or shorten the hair after 'Umrah for men and women, and similarly for those performing Tamattu' Hajj (al-Mutamatti'un) among men and women after the Sa'y and Tawaf al-Ifadah?
What would you do if your daughter lives with a group of girls in a private work accommodation and has removed her hijab, claiming the existence of an Azhari fatwa stating that the Quranic text does not explicitly mandate covering the hair?
How can I forgive a friend who betrayed my trust and secretly contacted my husband online, even though time has passed and she has apologized, and I still suffer from a lack of trust and a feeling of discomfort regarding my husband's relationship with her husband?
What is the ruling on giving a female relative a decorated watch or mobile phone holder, with the expectation that she will use it for adornment in front of non-mahram men outside the home?
What is the evidence for the prohibition of obscene language, and is what is published on Facebook about love considered obscene?
What do you say concerning a man for whom it is not Islamically permissible to have intercourse with his wife on a Ramadan night, despite Allah Almighty's saying: "It has been made permissible for you the night of the fast to approach your women"?
What is the ruling on looking into the eyes of women if they are wearing the niqab?
Is it permissible to smile at a street cleaner with the intention of alleviating his worries?
Do my paternal uncles become my brothers through fosterage if my paternal grandmother breastfed my deceased brother when he was young?
Is it permissible to bring in Muslim women to work as perfume and incense saleswomen, or as customer service representatives, provided that accommodation and transportation are provided and they adhere to the hijab and Islamic customs?
What should a young man do who has wronged a girl, then she asked him for forgiveness, but he refused?
Is it permissible for a woman to work as a demonstrator (معيدة) in a college approximately an hour's distance from her, without a mahram accompanying her, and riding mixed public transportation, knowing that she wears a niqab and tries to avoid men sitting next to her?
What should a sister, who studies the Quran and has recently started wearing the niqab, do when her mother gives her the choice between staying at home or removing the niqab in order to teach, knowing that she is the only primary teacher for women?
1. What is the ruling on a young man making a covenant with a girl by Allah that she is like a sister to him and forbidden to him as his sisters, knowing that one of them is his full sister, and what are the implications of that? 2. What is the interpretation of dreams that recurred after reading Surat Al-Mujadilah, involving seeing the private parts and attempting to touch them or a fluid coming out of them and drinking it, knowing the frequent prayers upon the Prophet and reading lengthy supplications before sleep? 3. What is the ruling on a young man who said to someone: "I worship you and no one else, and there is nothing to be worshipped but you," then regretted his words?
Is it permissible for a woman who is on the verge of divorce due to continuous physical and verbal abuse from her husband to wear the niqab temporarily to avert the danger of him exposing her in public, harassing or assaulting her, especially since he has done so before?
Is it permissible for a daughter to lead her mother in prayer aloud, knowing that the mother is elderly and unable to memorize, read, or write, and that the daughter is a woman?
Is henna mustahabb or Sunnah? Is it haram for an unmarried woman to engrave and decorate it? Is a married woman who applies it for her husband, then goes out with it and is seen by strange men, committing a sin? And what is meant by 'Umar ibn al-Khattab's prohibition of engraving and embellishing?
Will the prayer of a girl that God guide an actor she loves to marry her be answered, and is her secretly watching him in TV series considered a secret sin?
Is it permissible for a primary school teacher to go on a school trip that requires travel distance and the presence of a mahram, given that she cannot justify not going due to the mahram issue, and does she have a concession to go out since she is a class educator?
Does the niqab cause security problems, and why was the hijab mandated for women only and not for men, given the potential for men to be tempted by women, and why is it forbidden to shake their hands without lust?