Scholarly answers to contemporary and classical questions, grounded in the Islamic tradition.
Wa ʿalaykum al-salām wa raḥmat Allāh wa barakātuh! The seriousness, intellectual honesty and good intention with which you have posed your question are praiseworthy. In religious matters, merely accepting something on hearsay, or rejecting a prevalent opinion without investigation, are…
Wa ʿalaykum al-salām wa raḥmatullāh wa barakātuh! Mawlānā Muḥammad Zakwān Nadwī has invited me to express an opinion on weighty scholarly themes: the standing of ijtihād, the methodological approach of Mawlānā Ḥamīd al-Dīn Farāhī, the phonetic resemblance between the words…
The funeral prayer is fundamentally composed of four takbīrs. Concerning what should be uttered between these takbīrs, the Companions, may Allāh be pleased with them, and the scholars after them differed. Hence, it is inappropriate to insist on one recognised…
My name is Muḥammad Aslam Waṣī. I reside in the lowest part of my house where I have opened a shop, while my wife has set up a ladies’ salon. Because of these two businesses it has become very difficult…
Recently, I wrote an article in Urdu arguing that gold, rather than silver, should be adopted as the standard for determining niṣāb in zakāh. In response, the well-known Qur’an teacher, Dr Farhat Hashmi, forwarded the following question to me: Piyari…
What’s the protocol if you attend the mosque to pray and there’s a janazah going on?
You mentioned that a menstruating woman may enter Masjid al-Haram in Makkah. Does this permission apply to all areas of the mosque? Additionally, if her only purpose for being there is to assist an elderly parent, is she allowed to…
As Salam Alaykum Mufti Sb. Hope you are doing good. I was recently a victim of a credit card scam, and an unauthorized amount was taken from my account. The credit card company is now asking me to pay this…
Assalamualikum dear Shaykh, hope you and family are well. I had a question that you can answer whenever you have some time. If someone is about to purchase a house and the transaction takes about 3 months and during this…
I had a question that I wondered if you could help me with- a friend of mine is going for umrah and is likely to be on her period of the entire duration of it. Every source we’ve read online…