Q. Is it Masnoon for both men and women to attend a Waleemah?
A. Waleemah is the Sunnat feast which is a duty on the man who has just married. It is a simple feast held in the privacy of the home. A few poor persons should also be necessarily invited. It is not permissible for women to attend a waleemah. When it is not permissible for womenfolk to participate in even the Masnoon Waleemah, how could it ever be permissible for them and even for males to attend a haraam wedding feast in a hall as has become the incumbent practice nowadays?

Q. Is it permissible for a Muslim bookshop to sell the commentary of Yusuf Ali and the tafseer of Maudoodi?
A. It is not permissible to sell these books. To sell these baatil books is to aid in the propagation of kufr.

Q. Is it permissible to eat with shoes on?
A. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) ordered that the shoes be removed when one is about to eat. Furthermore, Muslims sit on the ground when eating. It will be very uncomfortable and improper to sit on the ground with shoes on.

Q. Is it permissible to visit the mazaars (tombs) of the Auliya to make dua?
A. In view of the bid’ah and shirk prevailing at the mausolea of the Auliya, it is not permissible to go there. People make tawaaf of the graves. They supplicate to the graves. They kiss the graves and even make sajdah. You can make dua from your home. The dua is heard and accepted by Allah Ta’ala from wherever you may be.

Q. Is it valid in the Shariah to establish paternity by some medical testing?
A. In the Shariah this is not a valid way of establishing paternity.

Q. Someone said that to sit in the Musjid with the fingers of the one hand interlacing the fingers of the other hand is not permissible. Is this correct?
A. Yes, it is correct. It is Makrooh to do so while waiting for Salaat, whether sitting in the Musjid or at home.

Q. Kuffaar governments confiscate, sell and even destroy the property of people. ‘Pirate’ goods are confiscated and destroyed. Is it permissible for Muslim governments to do so? If a Muslim government confiscates the property of Muslims and sells it by auction, will it be permissible for Muslims to buy?
A. It is not permissible for a Muslim government to confiscate goods belonging to people. It is not permissible to buy confiscated goods from a Muslim government. However, it is permissible to buy if the government is a non-Muslim one.

Q. Is it permissible to use liquor bottles after thoroughly washing them?
A. It is permissible but reprehensible just as it is reprehensible to eat food from even a brand new chamber pot.

Q. Is it permissible to transplant animal organs in human beings?
A. It is permissible, if the animals are halaal, e.g. goats, sheep, cows, etc.

Q. Is it permissible for a moffie to undergo a sex-change operation? By moffie I refer to a person who is a male, but he behaves like a female. He wears female dress and acts like a woman. Medical science says that such a person has more female hormones although physically he is a male. What is the Shariah’s ruling?
A. It is haraam for the ‘moffie’ to undergo a sex-change operation. Such a person will be punished in an Islamic state for acting like a woman and dressing like one. Such persons were expelled from Madinah by Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). They have to maintain total Purdah for women. Hemaphrodites may undergo sex-change operations. In fact it is incorrect to call it a sex-change operation. The operation will be to correct a physical abnormality and deformity. An hermaphrodite is a person born with both male and female organs, the one may be more developed than the other.

Q. Does the Shariah in any way excuse a gay for his inclination towards males in view of the excess of female hormones in him or for whatever reason the western establishment condones such behavior?
A. The Shariah does not condone unnatural and even natural acts of immorality. Even if in the ‘gay’ are an excess of female hormones and he sexually inclines to males, Allah Ta’ala has bestowed Aql (intelligence) to him. He is not mad. If a normal male who naturally inclines to females for sexual gratification commits zina, he is guilty of a crime and liable for punishment. A natural inclination to commit zina is not a mitigating factor. Similarly, a natural inclination to commit homosexuality is not a mitigating factor. The person has to employ his intelligence and struggle against his nafs. A Muslim is not allowed to become the slave of his nafs. These ‘gays’ have absolutely no justification and no valid grounds for indulging in unnatural sexual acts which had brought Allah’s Curse and Punishment on the nation of Hadhrat Loot (alayhis salaam).

Q. Two persons are performing Salaat. The one is standing directly behind the other. If the musalli infront completes his Salaat first, can he move away to either the right or left side?
A. It is permissible for him to move away whether to the right or left side.

Q. For some reason a muqtadi did not make the ruku’ in one raka’t. The Imaam had made an error, hence performed Sajdah Sahw. This muqtadi also joined in the Sajdah Sahw. Is his Salaat valid?
A. His Salaat is not valid. Ruku’ is Fardh. When a Fardh act is omitted, the Salaat is not valid and Sajdah Sahw does not rectify the Salaat. When a Fardh act is omitted, it should be done immediately one remembers. Sajdah Sahw should also be performed. This Muqtadi should have performed the ruku’ after the Salaam of the Imaam, then make Sajdah Sahw.

Q. On returning from a journey, I performed Qasr Zuhr Salaat just outside the city boundary. When I reached home the Zuhr Salaat had not yet been performed at the local Musjid. Was I supposed to have performed Zuhr again in the Musjid?
A. Your Qasr was valid. It is not necessary to repeat the Salaat.

Q. After dafan (burial) is it Sunnat to raise the hands when making dua?
A. On the occasion of burial dua is Sunnat. Raising the hands is not sunnat. Raising the hands in dua after burial is not based on any hadith. It is therefore bid’at.

Q. Some people believe that it is necessary to slaughter a sheep and to distribute the meat to the poor for gaining shifa (cure) from sickness. Is there a basis in the Shariah for this belief?
A. This practice is bid’ah. For shifa it is permissible to give Sadqah. Charity of any kind may be given to the poor. But to confine it to slaughtering an animal is bid’ah.

Q. What is the meaning of kashf quboor?
A. Revelation of the happenings in the grave are called kashf-e-quboor. Some people have a natural capacity in them to detect what is happening to the inmates of the grave. This should not be surprising because according to the Hadith animals too have this propensity. In fact, most of them hear the wails and groans of those being punished in the graves.

Q. Is the waleemah valid if held prior to consummation of the nikah?
A. It is valid. Consummation is not a condition for the validity of the Waleemah.

Q. Will the wedding feast organised by the girl’s parents on the day of the nikah serve the purpose of the waleemah?
A. The customary wedding feasts organised by the girl’s party is not the waleemah. The husband has to arrange the waleemah.

Q. Is it permissible to listen to nazams and anaasheed if drums are beaten? Some nazams are sung with musical drums.
A. Such music is haraam. It is not permissible to listen to nazams sung with the accompaniment of music even if the music is produced by only a drum.