Family and Companions
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ما هو الفرق بين الصلاة الفاتيحية والصلاة الإبراهيمية، وهل هما سنيتان أم بدعيتان؟
What is the ruling on abandoning children and family for the sake of calling to Allah?
Is it permissible for a wife to save money from her husband's wealth without his knowledge, knowing that if she saves it, he will take the money and spend it on his well-off family and another woman, because he believes that this is his duty and that she has no right to his money?
How sound is the hadith: "Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) proposed to a group of Arabs, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: 'Tell them that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) commands you to marry me off'"?
Is a husband permitted to prevent his wife from befriending women despite her need for that due to her feeling of loneliness in a foreign land?
What is the Shar'i ruling regarding someone who was forced to choose between being subjected to sodomy in front of his family, or having his father subjected to it, or having his family killed, and he chose what he was too ashamed to mention?
Does adherence to praying for the Prophet with the form "O Allah, bless and grant peace upon our Prophet Muhammad" fall under the meaning of the hadith "Then your worries will be sufficient for you, and your sins will be forgiven"?
What is the criterion for applying the description "al-Mawāli"? Is it a condition for describing a person as a mawlā that they be present in the country of the one who manumitted them? Is the mawlā considered part of the family of the one who manumitted them, inheriting from them and taking their name or the name of their tribe? Are the mawālī among the Ashraf (nobles) or the Ahl al-Bayt (family of the Prophet), having the same rights and obligations as them? Is it permissible to apply the description "slaves" to them?
How does a Muslim reconcile God's trials of believers with His promises to them of "a good life," "a way out," and "blessings"?
What is the ruling on one who makes a graveyard around his house to bury his family members, even though there are public graveyards in the town?
Is paying money for mediation to enter the Police Academy permissible or forbidden?
Who was the first to compile the purified Hadith?
Is it obligatory for a girl who has hair on her breasts to inform every suitor of her condition, despite the potential embarrassment this may cause her and her family, or should she not get married at all? And is this considered a defect that prevents marriage?
What is the ruling on photography in Islamic law, and is it forbidden? If it is forbidden, what should I do, knowing that it is the sole source of livelihood for my entire family?
Is it permissible to show the wife's chemise stained with blood from the wedding night to the family as proof of her virginity, and does this act fall under the prohibition of spreading what occurs between a man and a woman?
Would a girl accept marrying her paternal cousin, despite the abuse she and her parents have suffered from some relatives, their attempts to tarnish her image in front of the suitor, and her fear that these abuses will continue after marriage?
Why was the hand of the female Companion Nusaybah al-Maziniyyah cut off, and who defended her?
What is the ruling regarding the wife who has been irrevocably divorced from her husband three times remaining in the marital home, which she contributed to purchasing, given the presence of children and fear for the future of the daughter?
Is there sin in saying, "The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade poetry, and poets are without intention [or purpose]?"
What should be done regarding a family name that resembles the names of the Prophet's household (Ahl al-Bayt) in the questioner's country, where people consider him to be from them despite the absence of a clear lineage tree? And should the questioner claim this lineage or deny it, and which of the two is safer for him from sin?
What is the ruling on not marrying individuals with mental illnesses due to their inability to bear the responsibility of family and children, and the possibility of children being subjected to physical harm?
How can the Prophet’s — may Allah bless him and grant him peace — prohibition against a believer’s aversion to another believer be reconciled with his divorce of Hafsa — may Allah be pleased with her — and his command to a man to divorce his wife, and what is mentioned about its implication in the slaughter of excess sheep?
Is a Hafiz of the Qur’an who acts upon it entitled to intercede for seventy of his relatives?
Is it permissible for a husband who is traveling to install surveillance cameras to monitor his wife and children in order to keep abreast of matters in his home?