Fatwas Archive

Question: The prices of qāt may be high. Is buying it considered extravagance and waste, so that buying it would then become forbidden for that reason?

Question: What is the ruling concerning narcotic substances?

Question: Is it permissible to transplant an organ from a deceased person, after his death, to another man with his prior consent before death and with the consent of his heirs; or with the consent of the deceased’s heirs alone;...

Question: Is it permissible to fertilize farmland with human excrement and the excrement of animals whose meat is not eaten?

Question: Is it permissible to drink donkey’s milk for a patient afflicted with a type of cough that, in our usage, is called “al-qahlūl”, which is a severe cough?

Question: Is the basic principle regarding animals prohibition, or permissibility?

Question: Is the hair of a female child shaved on the seventh day just as the hair of a male child is shaved, and its weight in gold or silver given in charity, or not?

Question: Are the slaughtered animals of the Jabrīyah [those who believe in absolute compulsion] and the Mushabbihah [anthropo-morphists] lawful?

Question: If a man finds a sheep in a village whose people have fled out of fear of war, and he thinks that its owners have turned it loose, renounced it, and left it, and that if he does not...

Question: A man picked up a gold bracelet and sold it to his companion who was with him when he picked it up. After a long time, the buyer wanted to clear his liability, but he had already sold the...