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Zakat On Inheritance

June 24, 2024

Question I was due inheritance after a family member’s death. However, the money stayed in the lawyer’s account for four years for legal reasons. Now the money has been deposited in my account. Do I have to back-date the amount and pay for the past four years? If yes, how do I calculate it? Answer...Read More

Fiqh, Miscellaneous

Where can interest money be used?

June 5, 2024

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Where can interest money be given as charity? Question: Does interest money have to be given to a specific charitable cause or can it be given to any charitable cause? I have heard that interest should be used to build toilets only. Answer بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Generally speaking, when the word ṣadaqah...Read More

Fiqh, Miscellaneous

Is it permissible for me to pay for the uḍḥīyyah for my wife and older children?

May 31, 2024

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم Uḍḥīyyah is necessary on a sane adult who owns, in excess of their basic needs, anything which amounts to the value of 612.36 grams of silver on the day of ʿīd al aḍḥā. Anyone who fits this condition should pay for their own uḍḥīyyah. However, it is permissible for someone to...Read More

Buying and selling, Fiqh

Benefits of Uḍḥīyyah

May 24, 2024

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم Benefits of Uḍḥīyyah Every command of Allah is full of wisdom and brings an abundance of good, both in this world as well as the hereafter. These commands are multi-faceted in their wisdom, bringing benefits to the individual and the community at large. Uḍḥīyyah is one such command in which there...Read More

Udhiyyah

Repayment of a Loan in a Different Currency

February 5, 2024

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Question: Is it permissible to loan UAE dirhams with repayment of the loan in GB pounds? Answer بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم A loan requires that the agreement must be to repay the exact amount borrowed and in the very denomination borrowed.[1] Any agreement contrary to this in invalid and impermissible. If there is a need...Read More

Buying and selling, Fiqh

Can an ex-spouse inherit?

November 16, 2023

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم Among the three agreed upon causes for eligibility to inheritance is marital relations; each spouse will inherit from the other provided there are no causes to be barred from inheritance. Marital relations however, unlike kinship, is not always permanent; marriages can break down with each one of the spouses go their...Read More

Inheritance and Wills

ʿiddah after a divorce through email

November 12, 2023

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Question: A woman has received an email from her husband with the word ‘divorce’ as the subject. She has not yet opened the email but knows what the email is about. Has the divorce already occurred? When will her ʿiddah begin? Answer: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم ʿIddah begins immediately after a divorce or after...Read More

Fiqh, Marriage

Al Awāʾil as Sunbulīyyah

July 8, 2023

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم Among the favours of Allah on the ummah of His final and most beloved Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم was the method in which the noble words and actions of His messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم were preserved and passed on. The companions closely observed Rasūlullah صلى الله عليه وسلم and...Read More

Hadith

Bukhari, hadith

Difference in ahadith of Mishkat and Bukhari

July 1, 2023

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Question: When aḥādīth from Mishkāt are referenced to Bukhārī and Muslim, sometimes there is a difference in wording in what is in Mishkāt and what is found in Bukhārī and Muslim. Why is this? The reason for the slight difference in the aḥādīth in Mishkāt al Maṣābīḥ and the books they are referenced to,...Read More

Hadith

Bukhari, hadith

Mutammatti’ unable to perform umrah

June 24, 2023

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Question: A woman came in to iḥrām with the intention of ʿumrah to perform Ḥajj tamattuʿ. However, before reaching Makkah she started her menstruation. What should she now do as she will finish her menses only after ʿArafāt? Answer بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم Such a woman must stay in the state of iḥrām...Read More

Hajj

Hajj, Qiran, Tamattu', Tawaf

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