Fatwas Archive

Q1/ Is there, for the nearness of one grave to another, any benefit for the dead person other than seeking blessing (tabarruk) or being exposed to an abundance of supplication (duʿāʾ)? Q2/ Does the dead person know who is beside...

Question: What is the appropriate interpretation of His saying, Exalted is He: “And there is none of you except he will come to it. This is upon your Lord an inevitability decreed. Then We will save those who feared Allah...

Question: Is it valid that Allah the Exalted, out of grace, should show favor to a sinner who persisted (in his sin) after the judgment has been passed that he will abide eternally in the Fire, and then pardon him...

“Indeed, those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers – never would the [whole] capacity of the earth in gold be accepted from one of them if he would [seek to] ransom himself with it.” [Āl ʿImrān:91] Question: What...

Question: Allah the Exalted says: “O Prophet, strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them.” [At-Tawbah:73]. It has not been narrated in the Prophet’s (May Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace) biography...

Question: The scholars of the madhhab said: The congregational prayer is not valid behind a sinner (fāsiq) or anyone who is considered as such. The sinner is well known, but we want a rule by which we can recognize one...

I asked some scholars—may Allah be pleased with them—about whether the singer or the listener to songs is an immoral sinner, and they hesitated and did not decisively judge him so, even though the evidences for the prohibition of singing...

Question: Some scholars of Ahl al-Bayt said that one is not decisively judged as a disbeliever or immoral sinner for saying “exiting the Fire,” while it is known that the claim that the people of major sins will leave the...

Question: Allah (Most High) said: "As for those who believe and whose descendants follow them in faith, We will join their descendants with them, and We will not deprive them of anything of their deeds. Every person, for what he...

Question: The hadith: “Whoever relieves a remorseful one, Allah will relieve his slip on the Day of Resurrection.” If the “slip” is major, nothing expiates it except repentance—as is known in the principles of the Imams (Peace be Upon Them)....