Family and Companions
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How do Jews and Christians describe Heaven, and does their description differ from that of Muslims?
Is it obligatory to buy gifts for the wife's family, just as for one's mother and sisters, knowing that this is financially burdensome and causes problems during holidays?
Is one who participates with his family in a communal reading of the Qur’an, believing it to be an innovation, in order to please them, sinful, or must he openly denounce that and disobey his parents in this matter?
How sound is the hadith narrated by Ibn Asakir in Tarikh Dimashq concerning the transfer of the Caliphate, and what is its explanation?
During an argument with my wife, I told her, "You are divorced" twice at different times. Then, while reading a message from her, I said to myself in a low voice, "You are divorced," unintentionally stopping at the letter Qaf. I ask: Do these count as three divorces, and is my wife forbidden to me?
My father and brother compel me to download pirated movies from the internet, and I am forced to obey my father to avoid problems, so am I sinful?
Is it permissible to secretly marry a girl who refuses to marry the suitor chosen for her by her father, who sometimes beats her?
What is your advice to a young man who suffers from urinary incontinence and finds marriage problematic, fearing its effect on the marital relationship and its stability?
What is the ruling regarding a financially capable father stopping his spending on his children and wife, claiming that his daughter is working and spending on the family?
Did Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) say about the Prophet (peace be upon him): "His character was the Qur'an"?
What is the solution for a man who divorced his wife after discovering she was afflicted with sorcery and that her family practiced it, and he now wishes to marry again?
Is it forbidden to hang pictures of family members—such as a picture of a deceased grandmother—if the intention is to remember them and pray for them, and not to glorify them?
What is the ruling on a wife continuing to wear a head covering in front of her husband's family and adhering to full, lawful hijab, even if they mock her on the pretext that hijab is unnecessary in family gatherings? And how can she convince them of the benefits of lawful adherence while avoiding offending them? And are the sons of the husband's brother or sister considered mahrams? And what is the ruling on shaking hands with them if this custom is widespread in the family?
Is it a condition for sponsoring an orphan that the money be spent on the orphan personally if he is among a number of siblings, and is it permissible for the mother to spend the money on general household needs, and is that considered sponsoring an orphan?
What is the ruling on a communal iftar for colleagues (females and males) at a restaurant?
Who will be the guardian for marriage of an abandoned girl in the future: her foster father (the aunt’s husband), or her foster father through rada’a (the questioner’s husband or the husband of the aunt’s sister-in-law), or the judge? And in the event of multiple foster fathers through rada’a, which one would be the guardian?
What do the Quran and Sunnah say about the Ark of the Covenant?
Is the hadith “All Arabs are from the Children of Ishmael except the Salaf, the Awza‘, Hadhramaut, and Himyar” authentic and mentioned in Sunan Abi Dawud and Sahih Muslim, and who are the family of Muhammad and the family of Abraham?
Does the Hadith: "May Allah curse whoever shelters a transgressor (muhdith)" mean that it is impermissible to protect a person fleeing from their family in an honor crime, or a homosexual, or an adulterer, or an alcoholic fleeing from a group that claims to implement God's law, or a group that threatens them with death, even if no Hadd punishment has been established against them, and even if one is able to protect them? And would not helping them in this situation be considered forbidden (haram)?
Why is there no explicit Hadith stating that the Abrahamic Prayer should be recited in the final Tashahhud? And why did the ruling on reciting it in the final Tashahhud differ between the Hanafis and the Shafi’is? Does this indicate that it is originally unsound and that it was something added to the prayer by al-Shafi’i in triumph of his Qurayshi lineage?
What is the ruling of Islam on the societal view of repentant male or female adulterers, and does Islam differentiate between the sin of an individual and the sin of their family?
What is the Islamic legal directive regarding the Ottoman Caliphate? Was obedience to them obligatory? And are they sinful for establishing it, given that the Prophet (peace be upon him) commanded that Qurayshis be appointed as leaders?
What is the religious ruling regarding a father who abandons his children for the sake of his wife and wants to evict them from their only home, having squandered his wealth on his wife and her family? And what is the religious ruling regarding his children whom their father has forsaken for refusing to leave the home?
What should a girl do if she loved a young man from another country, and he proposed to her, but her family refused him due to the difference in their countries, while her sister's husband's brother proposed to her, and she does not love him? Should she marry him, or wait for the one she loves?