Fatwas Archive

Question: There are wide pools in many mosques in Yemen, where the people perform wuḍūʾ throughout the year. Often the odor changes due to long standing water and little rainfall, with no water for them but rainwater. Is it permissible...

Question: A man afflicted with a urinary tract illness had tubes inserted by doctors through his abdomen, so that urine flows into a pouch strapped to his thigh. What is the ruling of his prayer in such a state?

Question: An elderly, bedridden man cannot avoid impurity due to his old age and weakness. If he removes his trousers at prayer time, he suffers greatly from the air—even in summer—his leg joints hurting him. What is required of him?

Question: If a drop of blood falls into a vessel of water, that water becomes impure. If then a drop from this impure vessel falls into another vessel or onto clothing, does that render the water or clothing impure?

Question: Is it permissible to give a layman fatwā outside themadhhab, or outside the madhhab of the muftī—such as when the muftīgives him fatwā according to the madhhab of one of the Imams of the Ahlal-Bayt (ʿa), for the sake...

Question: If a pure layman—who knows nothing of taqlīd,commitment, or its conditions—comes asking fatwā in matters relatingto divorce, marriage, transactions, or acts of worship, how should he begiven fatwā? Should he be answered according to the madhhab of themuftī or...

Question: Guides (murshidūn) go out to instruct people in thecountryside and elsewhere, at the request of the scholars (may Allahpreserve them). The people of these villages must ask the guide aboutcertain matters—such as prayer, zakāt, and similar issues. Is itpermissible...

Question: There is discussion about the sayings of the people of themadhhab in al-Azhār, al-Sharḥ, al-Bayān, and other works—what is youropinion on that?

Q4: Do the jurisprudential curricula that are generalized for teachingentail uniformity of opinion, teaching a single methodology, issuing fatwasbased on it, ruling based on it, and limiting other interpretations to theirproponents? How is this methodology, which should be generalized,chosen?

Q3: Is the truth in matters of ijtihād with one side only, while the othersare mistaken?