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Questions in this season
What are the benefits of the miswak?
What is the difference between "an" (أنْ) and "anna" (أنّ) in the testimony "لا إله إلا الله", and when is each one used?
What is the ruling on asking for mercy for a Muslim who has died and whose state is unknown? What is the ruling on supplicating for a person whose state is unknown who has complained of worry? And is it permissible to ask for mercy and forgiveness for a grandmother who has died, who suffered from possession and did not pray, but did remember Allah?
Is a new Muslim obligated to separate from his wife if she does not convert to Islam?
Is it legislated for a disbeliever to shave his head upon embracing Islam, and is it obligatory or recommended? And is the same legislated for an apostate upon returning to Islam? And what should he do if his hair is short?
How can one reconcile the dispraise in the first Hadith for those who testify without being asked, with the praise in the second Hadith for those who offer their testimony before being asked? What is the meaning of "fatness appearing in them"? And what is meant by Ibrahim al-Nakha'i's saying: "They used to beat us for bearing witness and for covenants when we were young"?
Does one who converted to Islam from Christianity receive a doubled reward because they were from the People of the Book, while one who converted to Islam from atheism does not, taking into consideration the atheist's suffering until they came to know God?
Is a marriage concluded between a Muslim man and a non-Muslim foreign woman—who only believed in God but did not utter the Two Testimonies of Faith until after the marriage contract—a valid marriage, and what should they do, and would the newborn daughter be considered illegitimate if the marriage is null and void?
Is it permissible for a Muslim man to enter into an 'urfi marriage solely with a Christian woman who believes in God and in Muhammad (peace be upon him)? And is the husband's statement that a Muslim man's marriage to a Christian woman can only be an 'urfi marriage correct?
Is it permissible for a Christian woman who separated from her husband ten years ago without legal proceedings to marry a Muslim man while she intends to convert to Islam, with her first marriage remaining valid?
What is the explanation of the Hadith: "This matter will reach wherever night and day reach, and Allah will not leave a house of mud nor a house of fur except that Allah will cause this religion to enter it, with the might of the mighty or the abasement of the abased; might with which Allah honors Islam, and abasement with which Allah humiliates disbelief," and how does this accord with Islam not entering some houses that were built and have ceased to exist?
Is a menstruating woman considered an unbeliever, or does her prayer become invalid if she does something she had intended not to do after prayer, especially after her repeated ritual baths for conversion to Islam? And is she considered sinful if her husband has intercourse with her after the declaration of faith (Shahada) but before intercourse itself? And do the clothes she was wearing during her delusion that she was an unbeliever become impure?