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Sheikh Ahmad Kutty
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A Senior Lecturer and an Islamic Scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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On Welcoming Ramadan
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Wednesday,Aug 19 ,2009
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Makkah
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From... 13:00...To...14:30
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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.
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Yours,
Islam Online Fatwa Editing Desk.
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ummu amin
- United Kingdom
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nurse
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Assalamu Aleykum,
I would like to know what your opinion is about the Naqshbandi Tariqa. I am searching for a tariqa and have spent some time with Naqshbandis. I have read from their sources that they claim that the sheikh's can intercede. From the Naqshbandi site:
"Our grandShaykh Shaykh cAbdullah ad-Daghestani advised this fashion of calling on the Prophet (s) and the Shaykhs of the Order when asking their intercession. This formulation was transmitted to him by his Shaykh who received it through the Golden Chain, each Shaykh passing it one to another"
Can you give me your opinion on this? In my understanding of aqidah, intercession seems to go against my understanding.
JazakAllahu khayrun
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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 practice of calling on the Prophet (peace be upon him) and the shaikhs or saints of the past for intercession is not an accepted practice of ahl al-sunnah wa al-jama'ah. Therefore, one finds no mention of the same in the standard manuals of aqidah such as al-aqidah al-tahawiyyah. We are therefore advised to keep away from such practices. May Allah guide us to the truth.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Kh, urgent
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I am a convert who is currently living at home with my sikh parents. They do not know I am muslim but i am sure they suspect, and they have made it clear if I would lose them if that was the case , which i'm am not ready for yet. I just wanted to know if it is permissible to not fast on the weekends when I am at home with them. I can;t stay out till 8 everyday in order to avoid them as they would probably realise why and also if i didn't eat they would also realise. I know that eventually I need to tell them but I want to be able to move out and then let them know. So in the short term can I make up the days I miss in ramadan? Or is it not at all permitted to miss these days with this reason?
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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 can very well understand the difficult situation you are in. While you are to show respect to your parents as best as you can, you are not allowed to do so in disobedience to Allah. That would be the case if you were to skip fasting in order to please your parents. So find some other ways of concealing your faith from them; turn to Allah to open a way of relief for you and help you face the trial successfully.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Tania
- Canada
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As-Salamu'alykum, I am a convert alhamdullilah and I am pregnant this Ramadan (21 weeks). I want to know what exactly constitutes not being able to fast. Is it the mere fact of being very thirsty ( I am always thirsty I drink 3 Liters of water everyday). My doctor says I shouldn’t fast because it makes my blood sugar go low and then peak, but she is not a Muslim, should I trust her? 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.
If you are pregnant and you have reasonable ground to believe that you cannot endure the pangs of thirst and hunger due to your specific health condition, you may skip fasting. You should fast later when your condition improves, or in months when the duration of fast is shorter. Should you find yourself unable to fast at all for health reasons, then you ought to feed a poor person in lieu of each day of fast you have thus missed. If you are paying in cash it is estimated to be a minimum of seven Canadian dollars.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Tania
- Canada
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P.s. I forgot to ask if i dont fast do I make the days up and feed a poor person everyday or just feed one poor person and if i have to feed a poor person can I give money to the masjid so they can buy food for poor, i do not know anyone who is poor.
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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.
Fidyah or compensation in lieu of fasting is to be given if for health reasons you are never able to fast; if, however, you are able to make up later, then you must do so. Otherwise, you ought to pay fidyah: It is to feed a poor person in lieu of every day of fast you have missed. This amount cannot be given to a mosque or any other cause; it should be given out towards feeding the poor only.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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AbdulWahid
- United States
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As-Salamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh:
RamaDan Mubarrak!
Brother, the question I have is about the authenticity of the Hadith(s) about the devils being locked up during RamaDan.
How many are there and are they "Agreed upon", if so what does that mean? or are they Sahih without fault of any kind?
I am also suffering from severe Waswasa and Humazatish-Shayateen, are there portions of the Qur'an that make the Shayateen run and flee from the person reciting them?
RamaDan Mubarrak and I ask Allah('Azza wa Jal) to purify us all and to remove from us the Wahn(Love of life and hatered of death and meeting him) that is part of End Times prophecy that RasulAllah(SalAllahu 'Alayhi was-Salam) told us about when he said that we would be numerous but yet would be like the scum on top of the Ocean(easily manipulated and prone to conquest and subjugation). I ask Allah that we be set on right guidance, even if it means that we must abandon music and watching television. Ameen
YarhamukAllah was-Salamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
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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 hadith about devils being locked up during the month of Ramadhan is indeed authentic. It means that for those who fast in form and spirit, devils will be kep at bay; for devils cannot exercise any power over those who have surrendered to Allah. Allah says in the Qur'an, "as for My servants who surrender to me, you cannot exercise (permanent) control over them." But as for those who neglect fast and abandon themselves to the Devil, there is no guarantee that they can be saved from Devil in the month of Ramadhaan.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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adeeb
- India
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student
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As-Salaamu'alaykum, is performing 5 fard prayers in a mosque which is inside graveyard(at middle space in graveyard) invalid or valid? Some are saying invalid while others are saying valid. Which is the right opinin? Please explain.
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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.
Your prayer is valid as long as you are not facing the grave and as long as you are praying inside the prayer hall of the mosque.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Khalid
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Is there any jurisitc ground for a city or a country to follow Saudi Arabia's local sighting of the moon. It is a problem every year and the majority of the Arabs in my community like to go with Saudi Arabia.
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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.
From a fiqhi point of view that is one option to follow, but it must be done by the collective decision of the community and not by individuals. However, as I have already stated in my ruling concerning moon sighting versus calculation, it is best that we go the route of scientific calculation even as we do so in determining our prayer times. In this way, we can save ourselves from the confusion and uncertainty which puts us in great hardship in North America.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Khadija
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How can a nursing woman fast if fasting does reduce milk?
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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 a woman is nursing and she finds herself in a situation of reduced milk for the baby, she can definitely skip the fast; but she ought to make up for it later.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Fateh
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You said we can follow Saudi Arabia's local sighting? I thought we either go with any sighting in the world or local sighting wherever we might be or calculations. What is the basis for following saudi Arabia? Isn't a nationalistic approach?
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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 only meant to say that if the community decides to go by the sighting in Saudi Arabia, they may do so because, as is the view of some schools, we can follow the moon sighting anywhere in the world as long as we can act upon it realistically. I did not mean to restrict it to Saudi Arabia. It is after all left to the collective decision of the community and not left to individuals to pick and choose as they wish.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Nura Ibn Hashimu
- Nigeria
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Proprietor of an Islamic School called MADRASAH HAYATUL ISLAM
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As-Salamu'alaykum warahmatullah ya shaykh, my question is: What is the Islamic ruling about a husband who asks his pregnant wife to go for scanning at the hospital just to know how many foetus she has and the expected date of her delivery? Is that allowed in Islam? Jazakumullahu khairah. Wassalamu Alaikum Warahamatullah.
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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.
There is nothing wrong in resorting to scanning in order to determine the state of fetus; through this procedure one may even be able to preempt diseases. So I don't see any reason for her to refuse to do so.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Raheem
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I am having hard time understanding something: why Muslims fight over moon sighting every year while they don't do the same with regard to salah, which is more important than fasting. We agreed to pray based on astronomical calculations, why not fasting?
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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 have raised an important issue. It is time for us to base ourselves on scientific calculations, even as we have done so in determining the prayer times. I don't see any difference between the two.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Badly needed
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As-Salamu’alaykum; though I don’t have any sister but I am asking this from a brother point of view who have sister. Like I came to know few days back that one guy loved my sister from school days (almost 14years) and he approached me directly and I also found that my sister also wanted to marry him and I found that guy is doing good from deen and duniya point of view: working in good company with a good salary and family is also good. I also know that they don’t even talk to each other for almost 10 years and still want to marry with each other, so there is no problem in the purity of their love. But the problem is that my ammi (malik caste) will not going to accept this guy because she doesn’t want my sister to marry in other caste (syed sheikh) which according to Islam is wrong. So please suggest how far I can go for their marriage. It’s quite impossible to make ammi understand. And also ammi already started looking for malik family. So time is very less. Please reply urgent.
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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.
Although we are to please our parents as best as we can, when it comes to issue of marriage, the ultimate decision is left to the adults concerned themselves and not to anyone else: In other words, if your sister, who is an adult, chooses this brother, who is also an adult, and there is no bar to the marriage from a religious point of view, then theirs is the ultimate decision.
So try your best to convince your ammi; if she doesn't they can still get married, if they choose to do so. The marriage is considered valid. You would only be doing the right thing if you agree to their wishes to marry in spite of the objections of your ammi.
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.
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