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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q. During the daytime does a wet dream necessitating ghusl break the fast? A. The fast does not break.Q. If one wakes up after ending of Sehri time and discovers that one is in need of ghusl, will the fast be valid? A. Yes, the fast is valid. Q. Muslim organizations who issue halaal certificates demand a royalty payment from the non-Muslim firms who are issued with these certificates. Is this royalty permissible? A. The royalty which these organizations charge is haraam ribaa. Q. Does masturbation break the fast? A. In addition to breaking the fast, this unfortunate person who indulges in this abomination is mal-oon (cursed) according to the Hadith of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). Qadha of the fast is incumbent. Q. Is it permissible for a man to give his own Zakaat to his poor brother or sister? A. For assisting poor and needy relatives even with Zakaat, there is a double reward. One reward for paying one’s Zakaat, and another reward for aiding a family member. A person may give his own Zakaat to any relative besides his roots and branches, i.e. besides his parents, grandparents, children and grand children. Q. Your criticism of the Islamic radio stations is too harsh. There is much good in these media. Deeni talks, Qira’t, etc. are important features of these radios. Should these benefits not be taken into consideration? A. Even if we have to assume for a moment that there are benefits in these radio stations, you will have to concede that there are benefits in pork, liquor and gambling as well. But such benefits do not make evil and filth halaal, Similarly, the smattering of benefit which you have discerned in these nafsaani media does not make the shaitaani stations and channels halaal. Their evil by far outweigh whatever little goodness has been imagined. Q. How is the imaamate of a haafiz who shaves his beard all year round, but grows it during Ramadhaan to enable him to lead the Taraaweeh Salaat? After Ramadhaan, he shaves his beard once again. Is the imaamate of such a haafiz permissible? A. The imaamate of this faasiq haafiz is Makrooh Tahrimi. It is not permissible to appoint a faasiq to lead the Salaat. If no pious haafiz is available, it is better to perform Taraaweeh reciting the short Surahs than to allow the faasiq haafiz to lead the Salaat. Q. Is it permissible for a worker to sell any of his own items in his employer’s shop without the latter’s consent? A. It is not permissible. The worker is guilty of abusing amaanat in so doing. Q. After reciting an aayat of Sajdah the Imaam went immediately into Ruku’. He did no make the Sajdah. Has the Sajdah been discharged? A. Yes, the obligation is fulfilled. The Ruku’ suffices for this Sajdah although it is not proper to adopt this method. The Sajdah should be made. Q. I have been told that if halaal meat is not available, then the recitation of Bismillaah on meat slaughtered by non-Muslims will make the meat halaal. Is this correct? A. It is baseless. Haraam meat does not become Halaal by reciting Bismillaah. Meat becomes Halaal when an animal has been correctly slaughtered according to the rules of the Shariah. Q. Is it permissible to perm (make curly) one’s hair if it is straight, or if it is straight to make it curly? A. It is not permissible to change one’s natural hair and appearance in this way. It is a shaitaani act. According to the Qur’aan such changes wrought in natural appearance is the work of shaitaan. Q. I have adopted the Maaliki Math-hab. However, I cannot find any literature on the Maaliki Math-hab. Could you send me some basic books on this Math-hab to enable me to follow the Sunnah correctly? A. There is a great dearth, in fact almost total unavailability of Islamic literature in English in terms of the Maaliki Math-hab. There are also no Maaliki Ulama versed in English of whom we are aware and to whom we could refer you to. In the circumstances, your adoption of the Maaliki Math-hab is pointless. You are unable to practice the Deen correctly without knowledge. Our advice is that you adopt the Hanafi Mah-hab. An abundant of literature in English is available according to the Hanafi Math-hab. Q. If khuffain are put on after ghusl will masah on the khuffain be valid or is it necessary to make wudhu then put on the khuffain? A. Ghusl is an adequate substitute for wudhu. Masah on the khuffain is valid if put on after ghusl. Q. Is it permissible to keep pet dogs if the dogs are not allowed into the house? A. It is not permissible to keep pet dogs even if not allowed into the house. The permissibility of keeping dogs applies to watchdogs, sheepdogs and the like. Only if there is a real need will it be permissible to keep a dog.
Q. After a man married his cousin it was established that during infancy both were breastfed by the same woman. What is the condition of their marriage and the child born of this marriage? A. If the man and the woman were breastfed by the same woman during their infancy (i.e. 30 Islamic months from birth), then both are milk-brother and sister. Their marriage is not valid. They have to separate. The child will however be regarded legitimate. Q. Is it a Sunnat practice to make a congregational dua after a lecture? A. It is not Sunnat. If occasionally a dua is made in this way, it is permissible. But to establish it as a permanent custom is bid’ah. Q. Is it permissible to visit a beach where scantily clad females and males romp around? A. What doubt can a Muslim have in such visits being haraam? Q. When one is alone, may dua be made aloud? A. One may make dua aloud when alone. However, the Sunnat method and the best method is to make dua silently. There is greater humility and fervour in silent dua. The Qur’aan Majeed and the Ahadith exhort silent dua. Q. Is it permissible for a Muslim man to work in a driving school? He has to teach females as well. A. It is not permissible for him to work in such a school where he will have to teach even females. Q. My nabaaligh brother works in my shop. Our father has died. According to the Shariah, this minor is a yateem (orphan). I take him along to shop. He lives with me and I maintain him. Is it permissible for me to let him work without a wage? A. It is your Waajib duty to maintain him. Since he is a yateem, it is not permissible to extract unpaid service from him. You have to compulsorily pay him a wage for his service. Q. My wife simply refuses to perform Salaat and to observe purdah. All my admonition goes to waste. Is it permissible for me to divorce her? A. It is Makrooh and repugnant to live with a woman who does not perform Salaat and refuses to observe purdah. If she persists in her evil and haraam, then she should be divorced. A Muslim cannot live with a wife who refuses to perform Salaat. Her condition is akin to kufr. Q. During a man’s last illness he made a gift of a vehicle to one of his relatives who is not an heir. What is the position of this gift? Is it valid? A. A gift made during maradhul maut (the last sickness in which the person dies) has the effect of a wasiyyat. It is valid in one third of the estate. If the value of the vehicle is not more than one third the value of all the assets of the mayyit, the gift is valid. If it is more than one third the value of the assets, it will be valid only in one third of the value of the estate. The donee will have to pay in the amount which is in excess of one third. However, if all the adult heirs voluntarily uphold the gift, it will be valid. But the share of any minor heir may not be compromised. The consent of a minor is not valid. The minor will inherit his/her full share. Q. Recently a mixed crowd of men and women attended Eid Salaat on the beach. They call this event “family eidgah’. What is the Shariah’s ruling on this issue? A. From the information we have on this episode organized by some deviated persons, it is clear that it was an event organized by some females. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: “Never ever will prosper a community which appoints a woman over its affairs,”Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) made this comment when the daughter of the Persian emperor ascended the throne after her father’s death. The event organized by the miscreant women who are clamouring for public acclaim in diametric contradiction of the Qur’aan Majeed which commands that women be GLUED to their homes (with spiritual and Imaani Bostik), is a haraam function. It should be understood that women who clamour for publicity and crave to be in the forefront generally are afflicted with lesbian tendencies or even worse, they are outright lesbians, hence they pipe the western kuffaar theme of ‘equality of sexes’. Since they still claim to be Muslims, they seek to introduce their shaitaaniyat and nafsaaniyat under Islamic guise. They have no understanding of the Qur’aan and Sunnah. They are plain stupid women. In such women the attribute of nuqs-e-aql (deficiency of intelligence) is ten times more than the deficiency in a natural woman who does not suffer from the ailment of these women lib mutants. Such women who crave to be in the driving seat and to wear the man’s pants and whose husbands are in the dayyooth category according to Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), are not only extremely deficient in A’maal-e-Saalihah, but generally lack in Imaan on account of the explicit kufr they propound. These lib mutants according to the Shariah (Qur’aan and Ahadith) are mal-oonaat. Upon them descend the la’nat (curse) of Allah Ta’ala and His Malaaikah. They are the tools of Shaitaan who has enlisted them into his army. Iblees utilizes them to destroy the Imaan and the moral fibre of those Muslims who suffer the eternal misfortune and calamity of falling |