Fatwas Archive

Question: There are two innovating factions, each of them calling to its own innovation, and fighting has taken place between them. However, one of the two factions is closer to the truth than the other. Is it permissible to assist...

Question: Is it permissible to seek the help of an oppressor to recover a right? And is it permissible to assist the person who has the right in doing that?

Question: Very often circumstances call for honouring an open sinner (fāsiq) and one who disbelieves by misinterpretation (kāfir al-taʾwīl), and sitting with him, and perhaps he requests supplication (duʿā’). To leave honouring him, or to leave sitting with him, or...

Question: What is the ruling on initiating the greeting of salām for oppressors and open sinners? And what is the ruling on returning their salām if they initiate it?

Question: What is the definition of the sorcerer (sāḥir), the soothsayer (kāhin), and the astrologer (munajjim) whom it is not permissible to visit, as in the ḥadīth: “Whoever goes to a soothsayer…” etc.? And does this include the man who...

Question: If there is a misguided innovator in a town whose people are upon the truth, calling people to his innovation and misguidance, exerting himself in that, raising doubts for the common folk and deceiving them, constantly striving in that...

Question: What is the ruling on one who insults and curses ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Peace be upon him), or al-Zahrāʾ, or al-Ḥasan, or al-Ḥusayn (Peace be upon them)?

Question: Is it obligatory to denounce ghinā’ (singing/music), or not, because of the existence of disagreement regarding its prohibition?

Question: What is the ruling on enjoining right and forbidding wrong if the one who enjoins and forbids thinks, or knows, that if he does so he will be killed?

Question: Is it permissible for a Muslim to go abroad to Europe or America in order to obtain the money he needs for marriage, building a home, and so on, while he and his religion are frequently subjected there to...