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Ahmad Shleibak
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Member of the Fiqh Council of North America and Member of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America (AMJA)
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On Ramadan and Fasting Issues
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Monday,Aug 24 ,2009
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Makkah
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From... 11:00...To...12:30
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Brothers and sisters, the session has already started. You can submit your questions. Please, make your questions short and clear so as to help us answer all your questions.
Yours,
Islam Online Fatwa Editing Desk.
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Shamim
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Assalam `Alikum,
I have a question regarding Zakat. I am a salaried employee. I get my salary monthly. On the last Ramadan I had given my zakat (2.5 %) on the amount present on my account as I remember. I did not do the exact calculation of what amount was in year completion, but I think I had given out all.
Now I am getting my salary monthly. So how do I calculate my zakat this time. Suppose on the last Ramadan I had 5000 £ on account and I had picked 2.5 % means 125 for zakat. And after that every month I have saved 1000 £ . So on this Ramadan I have total 17000 £ (12000 + 5000 old one).
How do I calculate my zakat on this Ramadan. And what is the best way for a salaried employee to calculate the zakat.
Jazak Allahu Khayran
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Every year you need to collect all the money that you saved and you pay the Zakat on it. So in your example since you have saved 17000, then you need to the zakat on it.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Hamada
- Alaska
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Assalamu `aleykum!
Why they say that the fast is void if drops of the rain come into the mouth, but it is not void if you wash your mouth by water?
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
The Muslim should avoid water reaching the mouth as much as he/she can. That is why during fasting it is disliked to use too much water in the mouth, but if a drop of water enters the mouth, it will not effect the fasting, but more than that will.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Sama
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As the first wife, should I accept my husband's proposal for a 2nd wife? I recently got married in January. I live in Pakistan (awaiting my visa to join my husband). My husband lives in America. I recently found out he has been having an affair for the last year (through our engagement and after we were married) with an American. In addition to the affair, the American girl is pregnant with his child. The baby is due on March 2010. I have decided to stay with my husband and work through this, but he recently proposed that he take this American as a 2nd wife, so he can make the relationship halal. He said the decision is mine. If I tell him no, he will not have anything to do with the child, which even though unborn, he admits the child is indeed his. I need guidance and I cannot tell my family as this will create shame that I cannot bear.
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
What your husband have done is totally wrong and haram, and the child is illegitimate. In the USA he can not marry second wife, because if the government knows about that they will put him in prison, so try to talk to him about changing his mind about marrying the girl. If he insists then it will be your decision to accept or not, but you need to know if the American government knows you will be responsible too.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Mohamed
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Assalamu aleykum! Is it ok to use an anti-smoking plaster while fasting? Barak Allah fikum.
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
As a Muslim, fasting should teach sabar (patience) for not smoking or even using anything that remind you with smoking, so try to recite the Qur'an and go to the masjid and do other things. But if you find that you can not forget about smoking and it will help to use the anti-plaster, where it has no effect in your fasting and nothing comes out of it which will spoil your fasting, then it is ok, otherwise you can not.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Anna
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Assalamu `alycoum!
Will my tarawih be accepted, if I left after performing 8 rakahs with jamma`ah, while jama`ah performs 20 rakahs?
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Tarawih prayer is Sunnah. So you can pray at the masjid which is the best, or pray at home, whether you pray 8 rakat which is the sunnah or pray the 20 rakat. So any thing you do will be accepted by Almighty Allah inshallah
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Mahmoud
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Salam! Is Witr salat performed together with Tarawih in the mosque with jamaat? If yes, is it performed in a loud voice?
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Yes you can pray Witr prayer after tarawih prayer with the Imam, and in this case the Imam will read loudly so the people behind him will hear him. If you decide to pray the Witr at home, then it is acceptable too.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Muslimah
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As'salamu `alaikum!
Thank you for giving us this opportunity to ask you questions.
My question is that during Ramadan I'm praying 5 times a day Alhamdullilah which I didn't do before for a long time. My question is how to get "Khushoo" when praying. I find really hard to focus and most of the time I forget which raka`at I'm praying and if I have done two sajjada's or not. Thank you for your help.
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
My Allah give reward and sabar. If you pray by yourself, then try to listen to yourself. Read the Fatehah and the sura after little loud where you hear yourself and that will help you inshallah, and after every prayer make Dawa ( supplication) to Allah to help and guide you.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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muslimah
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Asalamualaykom
1. Does mathi break one's fasting?
2. Is it permissible for me to wipe on nylon socks for wudu, or are thick socks better?
3. I have been having a problem with wet dreams and for a while, and have not yet found a solution. I am an unmarried teenager who's a girl. If I put on a panty liner before I go to bed and wake up in the morning and see it, I do not see anything. If I touch it, it feels wet. What is this?
4.I get a lot of pure vaginal discharge (that only breaks wudu) during the day, can I consider any wetness I get at night pure vaginal discharge?
5. My mother told me that when she was young, if she woke up and found wetness, she considered it pure vaginal discharge. Can I do the same?
6. For a women, how exactly do I know if I had a wet dream? Women don't get wet dreams as often as men yet I still perform gusl almost every day. If I don't I feel as though I am not pure and sinning.
7. How often can women get a wet dream?
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
The first question is not clear (what is mathi means).
2- No you can not wipe over nylon socks if it is very light and not thick, and also if you can see through it. The socks must be thick and you can not see through for it to be acceptable.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Samira
- South Africa
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Aselamu aleikum.
I am about 4 months pregnant and because its my first time and I had a threatened miscarriage, we decided that I won't fast this Ramadan. My questions are: do I need to get a muslim doctors consent?
I will make up the whole fasting after giving birth but do I also have to feed a poor person now during Ramadan?
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
You do not have to fast during pregnancy, and after you have your baby, then you can make up the month, and you do not have to feed poor person during Ramadan
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Hassana
- Germany
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Ingenieur
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Salamou alykoum
I have two questions please:
1-I have to travel more than 160 km but I will return the same day in the evening. Shoulda I fast during this day?
2- I will travel for 2 days by plane on a business trip.I will arrive late in this evening: can I break the fast during or before the flight even if the sun has not set?
Jazakoum ALLAH. Salam
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
1- If you can fast and you will have no problem fasting, then it is better to fast and not breaking your fast, but if you fear that if you fast you might get sick or the fasting gets to hard for you then you do not have to fast.
2- Traveling in the plane is the same as the first question.
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Zainab
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Salaam u alaikum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
I am having a problem that is ruining my fasting. I had an argument with someone several months back over Islam. I caught her lying about it. The woman coined a parable against me to show me she was justified in doing what she was doing. Ever since then I thought I'm not smart enough to solve this problem. That why I want to leave to God. I blocked the woman too. Sometimes I think about it, I quake with anger. I fear my own shortcomings.
I am also being troubled with unspeakable thought. Other doubts are imposed on me by the devil. My heart gives in to them. I am always worrying about the future. Even in Ramadan, this has persisted. I get angry all of a sudden. I have no patience.
Please help me correct myself.
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
You need to pray to Allah and make du`a to Allah to help you over come yourself, and try to read the Qur'an as much as you can, and try to train yourself during this month to control yourself. And inshallah will find yourself better.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Hanifa
- United Kingdom
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housewife
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I know that eating the flesh of another human being is forbidden. My question is, in extreme circumstances, maybe my plane crashed in an icy mountain and I was lost for days and there was no other thing I could eat apart from the flesh of a dead human being, in this situation is it allowed in Islam to eat this. Please can you give me hadith or quranic verses or references to the Quran chapter and verses would be sufficient.
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Muslims should not eat other Muslim flesh in any case, because it is forbidden in Islam to do so.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Moneer Naim Khalid
- Qatar
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Engineer
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I had undergone surgery for a Clot in Brain two years ago due to which I am not allowed to take fasting during Ramadan. This year also I am prohibited by my doctor from taking SAUM.
My family is a very strict Islamic family and we all have been observing Fast since childhood and enjoying Ramadan with full spirits.
I gave fidya for not taking Fast for last two years.
As this is my third continuous year without saum,I feel disgusted when I see others enjoying the spirit of Ramadan. At times, I curse myself and call myself a Kafir for not Taking Fast.
Pls let me know is there any valid reason for me to console myself.
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Since the doctor told you that can not fast, then it is haram for to fast, because the doctor says that you can not fast because it will effect your health, and when it comes to that, then the Muslim should save him/herself, and Allah Almighty is most merciful. So just feed for every day one poor person and that will be good enough. If you did not follow the advice of the doctor and anything happens to you because of fasting then you will responsible before Allah Almighty
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Alia
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As-Salaam alaykum. I am a new Muslim and would like to know the Islamic view on Health Kinesiology (a method of natural healing by muscle testing)? I'm currently in the middle of treatment for polycystic ovaries. I would not want to continue with the sessions if it is haram. There does not seem to be much information around about this and would be very grateful for your help with this. Many Thanks..
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Any type of treatment is permissible as long as it does not use anything forbidden by Islam, and I think what you are using is permissible.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Rabab
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Salaam alykum, I have been very disturbed lately and I am in need of desperate Islamic advice. My husband and I have been married for 8 years and in all the years that I've known him my husband has not been a practicing Muslim. In fact he didn't have much knowledge about Islam at all as he comes from a non-practicing family. However two years he changed for the better. He actively learnt about the basics of Islam through literature and online lectures and mashallah. He now has good level of knowledge He has performed hajj, he offers obligatory as well as optional prayers and fasts and recites the Qur'an daily. I am very happy for him but sometimes I feel that he is too excessive. I raised that with him and told him that consistency is better than periods of excess and neglect, but he says that it is only excessive if he cannot manage it or maintain it. Anyways, he says that as long as he is not neglecting me and fulfilling all his obligations towards me then I should not interfere with his religion. I agree. However, I am not too happy about all the changes and the rate at which they are happening. Recently he informed me about his plans to participate in war in the cause of Allah. And this has disturbed me greatly. I feel that there are other ways to gain paradise and to please Allah's pleasure so why must he go to the extreme. He says that it's obligatory on every Muslim to participate in the fight for the cause of Allah and the rewards of a Mujahid and particularly a Martyr are far greater than any Muslim could ever gain by just sitting at home. I said that if an opportunity came to him then fine participate in it but don't go out of your way to look for it. He wants to do this as soon as possible and says that if he goes then the chances are that he will never come back because he wants to continue to do this. I feel hurt that he is willing to give up everything and leave to do this. I have suggested that he participate one time and if he survives then leave it at that coz that way he has fulfilled his obligation, but he wants to achieve the status of a martyr not just a mujahid and he asks me why I would want to deprive him from gaining the full reward. I am happy that he has such love to please Allah and I want to please Allah too by being a good supportive wife but I feel threatened that I will loose a husband whom I love dearly and can't help but think he is being excessive and extreme as usual. Please advise me if he is right to give up everything and go out of his way to look for an opportunity to fight in the cause of Allah? Am I wrong to ask him to stay? Is there any such war in this day and age that is truly for the cause of Allah, i.e Chechnya? Can you please support your answer with hadith and Qur'an.
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
As wife you need to support your husband for everything that is good, and if you disagree with him on anything try to discuss it with him nicely, and try to choose the right time.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Magda
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What words should I say before opening the Qur'an?
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
I answered this question above.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Sam
- United Kingdom
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Receptionist
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Can you wear Nicotine patches whilst fasting?
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
No you cannot; it is better to avoid anything that your body might have effect from it.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Hanifa
- United Kingdom
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housewife
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Can you tell me if it is okay to play games during Ramadan, to pass time. What if the game is halal like they use no dice and so on and you learn about Islam at the same time (halaalgames.co.uk do this) - or must we read and do prayers all the time and avoid those things which are enjoyable. I know we must be serious at all times but are such things like this allowed?
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
If the person does his prayer and read the Qur'an during the month of Ramadan, then it is permissible to play with games as long as the games are halal (permissible).
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Lo'ay
- United States
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Othman
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As-salam alakum wa rahmatullah wa barakatu
What if a person does something that breaks his fast out of ignorance? Like For example; he masturbates while fasting in Ramadan. Let's say maybe one has been doing it for years like maybe since he was 12 to 18 while fasting in Ramadan but years later he finds out that this action is haram and it breaks the fast. My question is: would he have to make up all those days and offer fidyah for all those days? If he does have to make up those days and offer fidyah and he lives in a Non-Muslim country, how can he offer fidyah? What if he can't remember how much days it was?
May Allah (SWT) reward you!
I really hope you can answer my questions.
May Allah (SWT) bless you!
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
If the person does anything that break the fasting, then he/she should make up for the days, so try to find out how many days and just make up the days only and you do not have to give the fidyah.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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sam
- United Kingdom
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Receptionist
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I was best friends with a guy for about 6 months. We socialized in the same network of friends and constantly are in each others company. We shared a strong brother sister relationship and everyone knew of our strong friendship status. At first everyone did doubt us for secret lovers but later realized that we were just very close good friends. He went on holiday for a week and I started to miss him a lot and bad thoughts started coming into my head. I did not confide in him but I knew that I had feelings for him. He also felt the same but again decided not to confide in me for the sake of our friendship. We both for about 3 weeks pretended that nothing was happening but slowly we were getting drawn closer to each other. A week ago I decided to tell him and we agreed to become a couple after a lot of doubts, thoughts and consideration. Now I do know islamically it is wrong. We have decided that we will only hold hands and kiss, everything else will come after marriage. We have decided that we will get married inshallah once I have finished my degree. Can you please advise me if I am doing wrong. My partna is religious and I don't stray him from his fasting or reading namaaz. To be fair I am not the best practicing Muslim but he has inspired me and will teach me Sur'ah Yasin by heart just like him. I see this relationship having merits more then sinning. Please advise on what I should do.
Thank you
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
The relationship is very wrong, you said you started as friend, and you start holding hand and kissing, and that is Haram action; what you need to do is to cut your relationship with him totally, and if he wants you then he needs to come to your family and ask for your hand and marry you, otherwise I advise you not to be alone with him, because you will do the wrong actions again. Allah says in the Qur'an: "And come not near to the unlawful sexual intercourse".
Allah Almighty knows best.
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Brothers and sisters, we are so sorry for not answering all your questions because the time is over. We apologize for any inconvenience. Do keep in touch. Join us in coming sessions.
Yours,
Islam Online Fatwa Editing Desk.
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