Fatwas Archive

Question: What is the ruling on passing in front of worshipers around the Kaʿbah?

Question: Animal statues are widespread nowadays. It has been said that the prayer of one who prays with a statue within a mīl (mile) while he is able to denounce it is invalid—until he changes it and denounces it, etc....

Question: What is the proof of the school for negating nifās in the case of a woman whose child is delivered by a cesarean operation—even though postpartum blood may then exit from its proper place (the vaginal orifice) as well...

Question: If a woman’s pregnancy is expelled by an abdominal incision, is she thereby considered to be in nifās or not?

Question: A woman gave birth; after seven days the blood of nifās stopped, so she prayed and fasted for about twenty days, then she saw blood again. Are those twenty days considered nifās, or are they considered purity? And if...

Question: Is it permissible for a person in janābah or a menstruant to carry a paper inscribed with the remembrance of Allah, supplications, and Qur’ānic verses—for preservation and healing? And is it permissible to carry that into the bathroom when...

Question: A woman’s monthly habit is seven days, but before those seven days there comes a little of yellowish or brownish discharge on the two days preceding the seven; then her known habit comes, accompanied by the usual pains and...

Question: People frequently ask about irregular menstrual bleeding—that it comes in its usual time and outside its time; sometimes there is blood, and sometimes brownish (ghubrah) or yellowish (ṣufrah) discharge, whether in time or out of time. When I ask...

Question: A woman has had continuous bleeding for six months, stopping only a day or two. With Ramaḍān approaching, what should she do?

Question: It has been said that a sick person does not perform tayammum except at the end of the prayer time, and likewise one who lacks water. Is this the case or not?