Fatwas Archive

A question about books of encouragement and warning: I find myself perplexed by what I see in examples such as warning of death and what comes after it, and its severity, and that even the Messenger of Allah (May Allah...

Question: It was said that Satan’s whisperings are not repelled from the believer by seeking refuge; so what is its benefit?

Question: What is Prophetic practice and what is innovation? And is it innovation that those offering condolences recite for the soul of the deceased?

Question: A man has a prayer-bead strand, and he claims that he knows unseen matters about a person’s conditions by looking into those beads; among what he said of that is his claim of seventy acts of fornication against a...

Question: A Muslim may be compelled to lie to his parents, or to his wife, or to his companions, or… so what is the ruling regarding the one who lies in embarrassment or necessity?

Question: What is the cause that drives people to hostility toward the people of truth and to striving to bring upon them the most severe hardships?

Question: It is known that Allah, the Exalted, is unique in the knowledge contained in this verse: "Indeed, with Allah is knowledge of the Hour, and He sends down the rain, and He knows what is in the wombs." [Luqman:34]....

Question: Is it possible to explain some of the wisdom in the abundance of Allah’s signs and clear proofs for the Children of Israel in the time of Moses (May Allah’s Blessings be Upon Him)?

Question: What is required of a Muslim regarding what he sees of many accumulated, scattered papers in the streets, in rubbish dumps, and in homes, which contain the Quran, or the remembrance of Allah, or His names, and so on?...

Question: We have heard much regarding blaming the world and the command to avoid it. Is what is meant by that that the legally responsible person should avoid wealth and choose poverty? What, precisely, is blamed in it? Then what,...