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Can I kiss or hug my friend's wife who is like a sister to me?
You can not touch a non-mahram.
ولا يحل له أن يمس وجهها ولا كفيها وإن كان يأمن الشهوة
It is not permitted to (even) touch the face or the hand (of a non-mahram) even when there is safety from lust
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How to wash feet for Ablution at a workplace? Is Prayer valid without washing feet?
As Medi1Saif said in the comments. Washing the feet is an essential part of Wudu:
Quran 5:6 O you who have believed, when you rise to [perform] prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows ...
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How should I reply to "Assalamu Alaikum"?
Well you can answer:
Alaikum as-salam عليكم السلام
or
wa alaikum as-salam وعليكم السلام
Both are perfectly fine and good answers!
Also available are the singular forms:
'alaika as-salam عليك السلام
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Is determining which niqabi is your wife a problem for Muslim men?
This might seem like a big deal from afar but from personal experience it is rarely an issue.
Consider the following distinguishing features:
height
build
purses or other paraphernalia
patterns/...
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What is the relationship between theses verse found in the Quran and in the Hadith
Having one's aorta cut is an Arabic idiom for dying.
In other words, 69:46 is saying that if Muhammad were to make up revelation, Allah would kill him and nothing could stop that. The hadith is ...
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Can I see any part of my wife?
A man can see any part of his wife, yes.
However, most women feel insecure about their bodies regardless of what part of the world they are from. A good husband would work on getting his wife to ...
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Is it appropriate to question a girl about her virginity before marriage?
Why you shouldn't ask her? It is your Right to ask about this. You should know about the past life of your partner as she has Right to ask you about yours.
According to Quran "Good women belong to ...
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What should I do if Canadian law and Sharia law are incompatible?
You example isn't very good in terms of incompatibility. Polygyny is permitted in Islam and not obligatory, indeed it is not permitted if one can't dispense equality and justice between his wives ... ...
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Huge difference between timing of Azan-e-Fajir in normal days and in Ramadan?
The time for Fajr is from dawn till sunrise.
Since fasting must begin at dawn, during Ramazan they hold the congregation closer to its starting time, it is convenient.
During normal days they delay it ...
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May a married woman let her Ex boyfriend visit her while her husband is not around
It is not allowed for the wife to let even a mahram, let alone a non-mahram, to enter her husband's house without his permission. This is mentioned in many ahadith:
Abu Hurairah (May Allah be ...
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Is it appropriate to question a girl about her virginity before marriage?
No, asking such question is not permitted in Islam.
Even if she is not a virgin, and she repented from adultery, she shouldn't tell you that before marriage. It is called 'Al-Satr Ala Alnafs' (الستر ...
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Why does Islam want everyone to be converted into their religion?
My answer will not explain the actions of Dr Zakir, however, I will touch on the topic.
In Islam, it is our duties to convey and make others aware of the teachings of Islam as this is what we were ...
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Going from "never prayed in my life" to my first prayer?
It's a great grace that you started praying, and trust me you will learn in very short time.
Before explaining the prayer I want to mention that prayer is the act when you can speak to Allah, Allah ...
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As a non-Arabic-speaking Muslim, is it important to own a physical copy of the Qur'an?
This is a question that is hard to answer as the decision at the end is yours, but all we can do is offer some help to make a decision:
About nobody at the early days of Islam owned a copy of the ...
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What to do when my parents forbid me from marrying a girl due to caste?
For the Pathan and Punjabi background, I would like to mention prophet Muhammad SAWW famous hadith:
There is no preference for Arabs over non-Arabs, nor for non-Arabs over Arabs. Neither is their ...
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What to do when my parents forbid me from marrying a girl due to caste?
This is such a common issue in many places. I am not going to repeat that in Islam there is no preference of a caste over another, nor a race over another, as it is already mentioned by many answers ...
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Do left-handed converts need to start eating with their right hand?
To the best of my knowledge, although it is recommended to eat by the right hand, instead of left hand (and actually it is said that it is Makruh to eat by the left hand), but it doesn’t mean that it ...
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Can muslims play die / dice based board games?
Playing any game where dice are involved is forbidden.
The Prophet ﷺ warned us against using dice in general:
عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: إِيَّاكُمْ وَهَاتَيْنِ الْكَعْبَتَيْنِ ...
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Was Zoroaster a prophet of Allah?
There is no authentic evidence whether he was a prophet or not. The correct thing to do is to remain silent and not assume either:
قل إنما حرم ربي ... وأن تقولوا على الله ما لا تعلمون
Say, "My ...
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Ramadan: is there a solution to long summer days?
I've heard and read about a couple of options for the time to fast:
Fasting according the length of the fast of the next city with a latitude of 45° north (For example in Europe and northern America)...
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Does Islam support pedophilia or child marriages?
Child marriage is (probably) recognized.
The Qur'an describes the how to measure the post-divorce waiting period (iddah) of females who haven't menstruated:
And those who no longer expect ...
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Is it appropriate to question a girl about her virginity before marriage?
Before trying to give an Answer of your question we need to do some analysis:
The only thing i found out, which would be acceptable and which you could clearly do is: Making virginity a condition of ...
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How to repent for apostasy?
My dear friend, don't worry. In Islam there's no restriction of repenting within 3 days. A person can repent until he reaches the state of Naza’, (just before death, when he sees angles coming to take ...
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Doubt about the Prophethood of Mohammad because of his marriages
All Praise to Allah The Most Magnificent and blessings of him be on Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him His family and companions
Thanks for your interest sister and asking a question which shows you ...
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Do my parents get ethem (bad deeds) for the way I choose to dress after tring to influence me to dress more modestly?
Children are a source of continous reward or punishment for their parents. Even after the parent's death, if a child does good then the parents are rewarded and vice versa.
This does not negate the ...
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Is it compulsory for Imam of a masjid/mosque to have a beard?
The major issue is how do scholars qualify a shaved man?
So the majority of scholars consider a shaved man as fasiq and that shaving the beard is haram, but a saghira (minor sin). While shafi'i ...
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Should a Muslim not conceal being a Muslim from others?
First the Verse (2:42) you quoted is addressing the scholars/rabbis of the Jews or Banu Israel (as it is the case for a big part of surat al-Baqara).
In classical tafsir books (like ibn Kathir) ...
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How to give in charity on behalf of one's late father?
All Praise to Allah Subhanahu wa Taala and blessings of Him be on Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him His family and companions,
Narrated Ibn Abbas (RA):
That the mother of Saad bin Ubada the ...
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Where and to whom can I ask for answers to my questions and doubts?
As I said in my comment above: You can try to ask questions here or Youtube, Islamqa, Islamweb ask Imam ... but any site you may ask have the same level. If you seriously have questions you want to ...
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