Fatwas Archive

Question: Does the judge act, in establishing a right, by the fingerprint or not?

Question: What is the legal ruling in the Sacred Law on acting upon fingerprints?

Question: What is the ruling on baṣā’ir (written deeds) whose scribe and witnesses have died? Is acting upon them valid or not?

Question: Is it permissible for a young woman to give salām to an unrelated man? And is it permissible for the unrelated man to return her salām, or to initiate salām to her?

Question: What is the ruling on looking at the physical charms of a disbelieving woman?

Question: If a man deliberately thinks about committing a forbidden act – for example, he imagines himself playing and being intimate with a particular beautiful woman – at the time he wants to have intercourse with his wife, in order...

Question: In many desert communities it is customary that the wife removes her ḥijāb before her husband’s brothers, and she also removes the ḥijāb before her paternal cousins and maternal cousins. If the husband wants her to observe ḥijāb, he...

Question: I have an illness and, during examination by the doctor, I need to uncover the severe private part. Is it permissible for me to do that or not?

Question: Is it forbidden for a morally responsible person to look at the nakedness of a young boy, or not?

Question: Is it permissible for a man to wear two rings?