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Is it permissible to pay the expiation for an oath (kaffarat al-yameen) in installments over five months by feeding ten poor people each month, through donating money to charitable organizations, knowing that the questioner is a university student?
Is helping the needy online better than donating to charities, and is the reward lost if the recipient is a deceiver?
Is it true that the punishment for the fornicator is to bear the sin of the husband of the married woman with whom they fornicated on the Day of Resurrection?
Is it permissible to give جاریه (perpetual charity) in the form of money, paid to charitable organizations periodically?
Does a woman's assumption of power not contradict the Prophetic Hadith: "A people who entrust their affairs to a woman will never prosper," especially since developed nations are governed by women?
Is failing to alert a worshiper who prostrates incorrectly a sin that necessitates bearing the burden of his prayer, and does verifying his prostration during prayer invalidate it?
Are we allowed to testify that my brother bought the gold jewelry and that his wife was wearing it when she left the marital home, knowing that its real value is not 40,000 pounds as she claims and demands, and my brother signed the list without knowing its contents?
What is the ruling on a sum of 50 riyals found outside the mosque: should it be handed over to the mosque administration, does it fall under what people of average means would not bother to pursue so it can be owned, or should it be returned to its place, and is it permissible to leave it and not pick it up to avoid having to publicize it?
What is the ruling on donating to "Orphan's Day" if it involves reprehensible acts such as mixing of genders (اختلاط) and music, even though its purpose is to bring joy to orphaned children?
Is it obligatory to correct information mentioned in a lecture about jihad, which stated that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, saying: "They are from them," applies to striking enemies with a trebuchet, whereas the correct context of the hadith is when children and women are accidentally hit during a night raid? And is the failure to correct this considered lying about the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, or concealing knowledge, or a sin?
Is it permissible to pay the Kaffarah for Ramadan for building a mosque, or for a sick person, or to help a poor person get married, in the event that one is unable to find sixty needy persons?
Is it permissible to pay off the mother's debts with usurious money whose interest has been realized, knowing that it is usury, after the father's death?
What is the ruling on money taken from LG and a government agency, if it is difficult to return the money to those who were harmed, and is it permissible to donate it as charity?
Is the deceased's wife entitled to choose to take a commercial shop as part of her legal share of the inheritance, knowing that this shop has been used by the deceased's son for many years with his father's consent and without formal documents, and that the sons offered her her share in cash and she refused?
Is one absolved of responsibility by depositing money in Faysal Bank and contenting oneself with utilizing half of the profits and donating the other half, due to the possibility of a portion of usury in the transactions?
What is the ruling on the saying and thinking that "Islam is a personal, individual matter" and that neutralizing religion from life is a sign of national progress, and is one who says and thinks this considered a disbeliever?
If it is impossible to return money to its owners, is it sufficient to donate it with the intention that it be an expiation for the sin? And is it permissible for a mother to complete the donation with the intention of expiation for her son’s action?
Is donating for the construction of schools that teach worldly sciences (such as mathematics, sciences, and languages) considered an ongoing charity (ṣadaqah jāriyah) or beneficial knowledge from which a person benefits after their death, or is this restricted to religious sciences only?
Is the testimony of a disbeliever against a Muslim admissible in criminal cases?
What is the ruling on some laboratory employees at the Ministry of Health evading payment of analysis fees for their relatives and acquaintances, and what is the ruling on receiving and taking samples from them without payment of fees? Is it sufficient to inform the employer of this without preventing this theft?
Is it obligatory to inform colleagues about a mattress becoming impure due to involuntary urination on it, given the fear that their prayers might not be accepted, and how can they be informed of the situation without embarrassment?
Is it permissible to attend Christian holidays and congratulate them on them?
What is the legal ruling for someone who alone witnesses a woman committing adultery, and is he required to produce four witnesses or is it sufficient for him to give four testimonies? What if she denies it in front of her family? And what is the ruling if a relative asks him, wanting to marry her; should he tell him the truth or remain silent?
Will the wronged disbeliever be avenged upon the oppressing Muslim on the Day of Resurrection, and will disbelievers be avenged upon one another, and will the animal be avenged upon humans?