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What will be the fate of a person who wore amulets and died without knowledge that its a sin?
A person wore amulets thinking it will protect him from evil eye and jinns etc...He has now passed away. Apparently it comes under minor shirk. The person didn't know he was sinning and he died ...
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Are Muslims more accountable for sins than non-Muslims?
Do Muslims get more sins for doing haram acts than non-Muslims as they are aware that it's wrong and shouldn't be done?
also if someone want to revert to Islam but can't do the primary acts like ...
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Is it a sin to ask Allah for signs?
Is it sin to ask Allah for signs? Like for example, asking Allah to make something happen to give me a sign. Or asking Him to make “xyz” happen to let me know if what I’m doing is good or not.
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Context behind this hadith
The Prophet said, “Verily, Gabriel came to me and he said: Whoever reaches the month of Ramadan and he is not forgiven, then he will enter Hellfire and Allah will cast him far away, so say ameen. I ...
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Is the name 'Allah' a proper noun or title?
As-salaamualaikum, brothers.
I have a confusion concerning the name of Allah.
Can I make a conclusion that Allah doesn't have a name like we human and deities in polytheistic religion have like ...
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Is Day trading (cryptocurrency) haram?
I've read that buying and selling of something you don't possess is haram however cryptocurrency is different than stocks trading as you don't have to wait for t+2 days for the settlement of the stock....
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Regarding accountability
Theres a person who is dumb and partially deaf. He commits crimes but he has schizophrenia.
Is he accountable in the court according to shariah law?
Also can his testimony be accepted in courts since ...
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Confused regarding this specific hadith
So I was reading this article, and I read these 2 ahadith in it.
and it goes like this,
Allah created some people for hell and some people for paradise.
My initial understanding of this hadith was ...
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Can I ask Allah for a religious wife but who has high libido?
Assalamualaikum brothers and sisters
I'm 20 years old
I have a high libido and unable to control myself from watching bad video's and masturbate I'm trying to quit this for my future wife and to ...
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What Is The Meaning Of The Arabic Word "Rafa'a" رَفْعٌ In Regards To Corporeal Things?
According to Lane's Lexicon, the Arabic word Rafa'a رَفْعٌ in regards to human body or corporeal thing means to physically elevate or rasie:-
(TA:) رَفْعٌ is sometimes applied to CORPOREAL things, ...
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Can a woman go out of her house for essential things during the iddah period after the death of her husband?
I have heard conflicting views on the subject with some saying
Incase of first or second divorce, she needs her husband's permission
Incase of third divorce, she is free
But I'm interested to know ...
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What is the Islamic view of 'Chimera'? Who will their children belong to as per Sharia?
A chimera is essentially a single organism that's made up of cells from two or more "individuals"—that is, it contains two sets of DNA, with the code to make two separate organisms. One way ...
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Can contentious practices or practices not recorded in sunnah, be allowed/made permissible by being considered non-specific or non-explicit ibadah?
I note the several articles on bid'ah on the Islam SE. Some focused on particular cases (in the form of: 'is X permissible'?)[1-2]. Others have focused on typology [3], but not discussing the ...
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Saving money as a group but source is shady
In asia countires, People have kamati/kaymati (sound : committee), in which everyone put in certain amount for certain time of period and every month, each member get money. There is someone who has ...
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Is autopsy allowed in Islam?
What does Islam command with respect to conducting an autopsy in case of suspicious death? Is it allowed to alter the body after one's death? Or do we leave the truth with Allah and allow him to take ...
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Is this a proverb in Quran? Are there other proverbs too?
Quran, Al'Araf (7), 40:
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ عَنْهَا لَا تُفَتَّحُ لَهُمْ أَبْوَٰبُ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَلَا يَدْخُلُونَ ٱلْجَنَّةَ حَتَّىٰ يَلِجَ ٱلْجَمَلُ فِى سَمِّ ...
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Is it recommended to recite 'Ya Shafi Ya Kafi' before taking a medication?
I recently came across a sermon where the narrator recommends to recite
YA SHAAFI YA KAFI YA BAQI ( The Healer, Self-sufficient, The
Everlasting)
for General Sickness, Deadly Diseases, Fevers, Burns ...
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What are the differences between companions of right and people in front?
In Chapter 56, Quran says people will be put into three groups in the Day of Judgment: companions of left, companions of right, and people in front (or foremost). From the some verses in this chapter, ...
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Translation of this particular verse?
Selamun aleikum,
Can someone give me a literal translation of these particular verses (and add a little bit of explaining):
Surah Al-Ala, Verses 4/5:
وَالَّذِي أَخْرَجَ الْمَرْعَىٰ
فَجَعَلَهُ ...
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The incident when Imam Ali threw away his sword when his enemy spat at his face
In the heat of the battle, the man spat his face and Ali forgave his
life. Puzzled, the man asked why; and Ali said: a moment ago I was
fighting and about to kill you in the name of Islam; now I am ...
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How to recite the word "تَأۡمَ۬نَّا" in Surah Yusuf Verse 11 (12:11)?
I have heard that there are two Tareeqs in Hafs 'an Aasim to pronouncing this word. What are those Tareeqs, and how exactly to pronounce it?
Also, what is Ishmam, should it be done at the beginning, ...
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will a womens attraction for other men in jannah be taken away?
Assalamualaikum, I read this somewhere, Ibn Katheer said: “ they (the women of Jannah) lower their gaze and avoid looking at men other than their husbands, so they do not think that there is anything ...
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Not praying Jumma Prayers since April 2020
In Corona Pandemic, I've not prayed any Jumma Prayer since April. Not even in Home as Juhr. As we know about missing 3 jumma sequentially, is it applicable in this corona situation? My nearest mosque ...
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Benefits of reciting Allah's Names?
I have read on many websites that if one recites a specific name of Allah then he will receive certain benefits, eg, saying Ar Rahman a certain number of times will "remove the defect of ...
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Did The Narrator Ad-Dhahak Ever Met Ibn Abbas In His Lifetime?
I have read some controversial views about the meeting of Ad-Dhahak and Ibn Abbas. In one source, Ad-Dahak explicitly denies ever narrating anything from Ibn Abbas.
Some people cite Tafsir Ibn Kathir ...
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The story abou Imam Abu-Hanifa (where he said Alhamdulillah twice about his ship)
One afternoon Imam Abu-Hanifa was teaching when a man came and told him that his ship sunk. The Imam paused for a moment and said Alhamdulillah; later the same man came and said there had been a ...
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Hadith explaination and grade
Salam, recently I came across a Hadith which has been troubling me this hadith is found in the Riyadh as-saliheen a book by Imam Al-Nawawi. Which is as follows:
Abu Umamah (May Allah be pleased with ...
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How did the prophet teach others?
In my city children are taught in (mainly) two different ways: they are taught really strictly or not taught at all. Ive seen some people who grow up very conservative but when they hit their late ...
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Predestination and omniscience
God is Almighty and knows what is going to happen in the future. I watched this video by Shabir Ally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWfDUoYsFQ and it started confusing me. We can never truly know ...
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The availability of the injeel and the torah during prophet Muhammad (SAW) 's time
Assalamualaikum, I'd go straight to the point inshAllah.
I'm currently confused: was the original Torah and Injeel available during prophet Muhammad's (SAW) era?
Like for example in verses such as: ...
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Reward for not fleeing
I heard if someone who catches the recent corona virus and does not flee from it. He gets a martyr's reward in Islam.
It makes sense right?
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Is it haram to have a breast reduction/enlargement surgery?
I am 15 years old and my breasts are very huge and saggy. Is it permissible for me to have a breast reduction surgery when i get older? Please note that my breasts cause me a great deal of ...
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Is a non-Muslim allowed to make Dua?
A friends family member has passed and I was asked to make Dua. I’m not Muslim so I looked it up but am I allowed to do so? I didn’t want to be rude and reject without knowing for sure.
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Christian Gnostisicim and Sufism
I've been reading on Gnostisicism and I found it similar to Sufism to some extend. To me,
it's very probable that early Sufis were influenced by Gnosticism to some degree. Given that, did any Sufi ...
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Are there any promiscuous woman present in muslim epic stories?
In Hindu epic Ramayana, Shurpanakha seduces Laxman.
Ahalya commits adultery and later cursed by Gautama Maharishi..
In Christianity epic stories, Mary Magdalene tried to seduce Jesus but Jesus told ...
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Burial of ashes of a Muslim who has been cremated due to Corona Virus?
Due to the Corona Virus epidemic, Muslims in Sri Lanka are being cremated according to a gazetted law. The Ulema say the ashes can be buried. Please clarify this with valid references.
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Is it true that the Ummah of Yunus (Jonah) is the only one to have all members of it to profess faith in Allah (God)?
From Tafsir Ibn Kathir:
No town has denied the truth and then believed when they saw the
scourge, and then their belief benefited them, with the exception of
the people of Yunus. When they lost their ...
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Who is the last person to be dragged over the Sirat?
I've come across a very intresting hadith from Sahih al-Bukhari.
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 532s
Some of the believers will cross the bridge as quickly as the wink of
an eye, some others as quick as ...
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Why did Allah let humans create other religions?
Allah created humans to worship him. So, why are there other religions with different gods present today ? And some religions are made up by humans, if so why did Allah let them to do it?
And should ...
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Does Islam acknowledge such a thing as bad luck? How do I get rid of bad luck?
Does Islam acknowledge bad luck? I have been faced with a string of bad happenings most of my life. And it goes against all laws of probability to be just written off like that.
I have been trying to ...
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Is Drawing head separated from the body (No neck) Haram?
Salam
I just wanna know that, is it haram to draw humans but the head is separated from the body like no neck, similar to the bathroom sign figure. Is this permissible?
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Cyber Attack on haram website (porn, drugs, etc)
In the name of Allah,
As we know that website that provides porn, drugs, gambling, etc are haram in islam. Can we just attack those website until they're not accessible anymore? I've done few attacks ...
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Honor and revenge in Islam
Does Islam have codified rules of honor and revenge/punishment in the general sense of personal honor.
I am not interested in this question in the specific and sensationalised issue of "honor ...
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Sunni's view on Ghadir Khumm
Shia's view on Ghadir Khumm produces the idea that Ali is the only legitimate successor directly after Muhammad. What is the Sunnis view on this? Why don't they consider Ghadir Khumm as serious as ...
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Where can I find this hadith on shaking hands?
It is possible that this hadith is from a Shia Hadith Book, but I am not sure. I have not been able to find it yet.
The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) is reported to have said: "It is not ...
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Tafsir of a hadith regarding to stop reading Quran
I agree that the meaning of this hadith (below) is clear, for me, it is geared towards unity in Islam. However, my question is, is there any official tafsir of it from classical Ulama ?
Allah's ...
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By whom and where was the first minaret added to a mosque?
When we check the books of seerah and sunnah we may be astonished that such a characteristic part of a mosque like a minaret was not yet known at the time of the prophet () as we may read in Sunan abi ...
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Did the Prophet dispatch aid for Mecca during a drought?
I heard in a sermon that Mecca was hit with either drought or famine while it was still under the control of the pagans. When it happened, the Prophet sent relief aid for the people of Mecca in the ...
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Ideas of Causality in ISLAM
Currently I am working on a philosophy paper, exploring the correlation between cause and effect, or in other words how present knowledge is wholly dependent upon past knowledge.
I was thinking of ...
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Is it enough to advise someone on stopping with a sin without telling them evidences?
Asking this because a few months ago i was watching/a fan of a tv show which i now realize is haram (few curse words, some inappropiate scenes). I'm saying “realize” because i used to watch it (and ...
