Sending Blessings
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What are the Surahs, supplications, and phrases that are recommended to be recited on Friday, and how many times should they be recited?
How sound is the narration reported from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, concerning eighty verses from the Qur’an and the fulfillment of needs that results from reciting them, and what is the Shar’i position regarding those who propagate such speech?
What is the meaning of "يتشدقون في الكلام" (they are boastful/pompous in speech) mentioned in the Hadith of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: "The worst of my Ummah are those who were born into luxury and grew up with it...they are boastful/pompous in speech"?
What is the meaning of the Hadith: "You will be mobilized into armies: an army in Sham (Greater Syria), an army in Iraq, and an army in Yemen"?
Is it obligatory to mention the full phrase "ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam" (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) every time the Prophet's name is mentioned, even if his name is repeated within the same context?
How do we reconcile the denial of poetry to the Prophet (peace be upon him) in the verse, "And We did not teach him poetry," with his attributed saying during the Battle of Uhud: "I am the Prophet, no lie I am the son of Abdul Muttalib," which is poetry in the Al-Basit meter?
Which is better in reward: prayer upon the Prophet or tasbih and tahmid?
Is Zakat obligatory on household possessions such as electrical appliances and furniture, and is it true that it is obligatory twice in a lifetime?
Is it to be understood from the Hadith that prophetic legislation may be based on ijtihad (independent reasoning) without revelation, and that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, retracted his intention to forbid ghilah (coitus during lactation) based on his observation of the children of the Romans and Persians?
What are the fabricated hadiths, when did they appear, and what are some examples of them?
What is the ruling on sprinkling water on invisible urine stains in a carpet when one is unable to locate them?
What is the ruling on regularly (collectively) reciting "Subhana Rabbika Rabbil-Izzati Amma Yasifun, Wa Salamun Alal-Mursalin, Wal-Hamdu Lillahi Rabbil-Alamin" after every obligatory prayer?
What is the ruling on espionage in Islam, and what is the punishment for a spy who violates the privacies of others under the pretext of fearing for them?
Is Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, superior to Gabriel and Abraham, upon whom be peace?
What are the regulations for asking others to supplicate, and does the supplicant's intimate address to the one supplicated for contradict the merit of supplicating in their absence?
Is it permissible to describe the religion of Islam as "feminist" or "effeminate" due to the concessions it grants to women, or as "masculine" because of its discourse on male guardianship (qawamah) and authority (wilayah)? And is it permissible to address a woman as "deficient in intellect and religion" based on the Hadith of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him?
Do Sunnis believe in the Mahdi, and who is he according to them?
How sound is the Hadith: "The best of the people of Iraq will go to Sham, and the worst of the people of Sham will come to Iraq"?
Was the Messenger's (PBUH) letter to Al-Mundhir ibn Sawa written in his own hand or by someone else?
Is it permissible to say: "O Allah, bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad as You blessed Ibrahim and the family of Ibrahim, and grant favor to Muhammad and the family of Muhammad as You granted favor to Ibrahim and the family of Ibrahim in all the worlds, for indeed, You are Praiseworthy and Glorious" after the Tashahhud in prayer or in general, and is it permissible to add "in all the worlds"?
Is what the Companion meant by saying "I pledged allegiance" in this Hadith the pledge of allegiance to Islam? And what is a pledge of allegiance, and what are its types?
Is seeking forgiveness 900 times a day considered a Bid’ah (innovation in religion), and what is the ruling on delaying marriage due to the problem of premature ejaculation and the inability to find a cure?
What is the ruling on passing the hand over the chest when the Imam recites "Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah"?
What is the ruling on mentioning the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, without invoking blessings upon him, and does this constitute deification of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace?