Fatwas Archive

Question: If the patient is under modern medical machines in a condition such that, were the machines to be removed from him, he would certainly die, then what is the ruling?

Question: If there is a patient in the hospital who has completely lost consciousness, does not move, is being nourished by feeding solutions, and is breathing through a medical machine, and the physicians supervising him say that if they remove...

Question: What is the ruling on one who frequently curses and uses obscene speech with his children and his family, while he is committed to the rest of the acts of obedience?

Question: Does the one who intentionally kills (another) have repentance?

Question: Give us a fatwa regarding a man who used to cut off the road (i.e., a highway robber), and now he regrets what he did. What is required of him regarding the wealth he had taken? What should he...

Question: A man used to steal old muṣḥafs [written Qur’an copies] from mosques, erase them, then write in them, and then sell them. Now he has turned back to Allah and repented. What is required of him concerning what he...

Question: There is a thief who brazenly attacks the qāt farms of some people. The owners of the qāt have tried to make him stop harming them, but those attempts have not been of any benefit. Is it permissible for...

Question: A man stole, and then his hand was cut off. Is he required to return what he stole?

Question: Is a car considered a ḥirz (protected enclosure) for what is placed in it?

Question: If two men dispute and they place a ribākh (a sum held with him) with a man, and that man reconciles between them, so they both give him a fee in return for his reconciling them – is it...