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Shariah Law/Women & Children
Recently, there has been much talk in the media regarding honour killings. It is unfortunate that some of the names mentioned in these cases are Muslim names.
Please clarify the Islamic position with regarding to honor killings?
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Shariah Law/Women & Children
What is the Islamic punishment for a child molester, for example a teenage boy molesting an infant girl?
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Shariah Law/Women & Children
If one stole before becoming a Muslim and fears retribution if one informs the victim, is it sufficient to give money to charity to the value of what was stolen?
Should the money reflect the value of the item now or when it was stolen?
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Shariah Law/Property
My question is regarding inheritance where people still live in a property.
Example: A man dies leaving children, parents, siblings, and a wife. The wife is a convert muslim and has no family that islamically could support her, remarriage is...
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Shariah Law/Women & Children
Recently I have heard that a Canadian mother, Melanie Boivin, has had her eggs extracted and frozen to be transplanted into her daughter who suffers from some kind of disease and due to which she does not have the ovaries to produce eggs...
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Shariah Law/Property
My question is regarding property. My father and his brother bought a house together about 25 years ago, though it was signed under my uncles name. My father still has a right to the share that he paid for. however, my uncle sold that...
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Shariah Law/Property
What must one do in order to ascertain that property has been discarded before one takes possession of it?
Specifically if one discovered an item in a condition in which most people would have discarded it, in a place in which garbage is...
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Shariah Law/Women & Children
What is the punishment for child sexual abuse in Islam, as I think I found a hadith once where the Propher (PBUH) said that if someone looks at a child with lust in there eyes it is equal to a 1000 years in the hell fire, please could you...
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Shariah Law/Women & Children
Regarding slavery, lately I have been reading up a lot on Islam, and I came across a Hadith where the prophet said you are allowed to have sex with your slave girl as well as your wife. Is this not Zina? I thought you were only allowed to...
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Shariah Law/General
Shaykh Hamza Yoosuf has wrote this article http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0708/frontpage/denial Can he make qiyas of holocaust denial or kennedy's assassination to mutawwatir of Quran, Aqidah matters and Fiqh matters. Or is this wrong...
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Shariah Law/General
While amending the Hudood Ordinance, the Gov't of Pakistan has legislated an amendment under which; the punishment for rape (zina bil jabar) as ordained by the Quran, which is called Hadd, has been completely abolished.
As such a person who...
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Shariah Law/General
I've made many oaths before, I swore by Allah whenever I made oaths and I didn't fulfill them. For instance I said: I'm not going to this or that, I swear by Allah!.. but then I did it (May Allah forgive me!) and I've repeated this many times....
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Shariah Law/General
If you break an oath and have to pay kafara, but you don't have money now or in the future as you're a student at the moment and 3-4 years to come insha'a Allah. Can you fast instead? or should you wait until later when you have money?
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Shariah Law/General
If you took an oath such as "wallahi I will give you this and that if you prove to me that its ijma in this matter" but you can't give the person what you've promised? Should you make kaffara? If you made this oath with another intention, for...
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Shariah Law/Property
My grandfather and his two sons (my dad and his brother), they built a house of 3 floors about 500 quadrat meters. Before my grandfather past away, he said that the first floor should be given to me, second floor to the son of my father's brother...
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Shariah Law/General
Is it possible to elaborate and explain the birth ritual according Islamic Law? Especially with regards to the following questions: What is whispered in the child's ears upon birth? What is the wisdom behind the chewing of Date and rubbing...
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Shariah Law/Women & Children
I know a sister who follows the hanafi fiqh, but is married to someone who foloows the shafi fiqh. Which fiqh should the children follow?
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Shariah Law/General
Though it is clear that one needs to follow one of the four schools, if one was to choose between the four schools, should not the people choose the Hanbali School because it was the latest of the four schools?
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Shariah Law/General
I would like to know what is true Khilafah. Because at my university there is a group called Hizb-ut-Tahrir and they say its a duty for Muslims to join their group because they are the only ones trying to establish Khilafah on the method of...
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Shariah Law/General
What is the Islamic ruling regarding migrating from Muslim lands to non-Muslim lands for reasons other than calling the non-Muslims to Islam i.e. dawah?
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Shariah Law/Women & Children
I have named my son Ibrahim Abdullah Akram. As you know Ibrahim is a prophet's name and Abdullah is slave/servant of Allah. A few people in my family have suggested the name maybe too "heavy" and sometimes make mild humour about it. I...
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Shariah Law/General
Does the sharia law apply (to Muslims) in the UK as its not a muslim country?
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Shariah Law/Women & Children
Could you please clarify what is the status in Islam in regards to females holding a role of leadership - whether it maybe as leader of a country, or being a local councillor/MP role. I have been bought up to believe that females should not hold...
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Shariah Law/General
What is the correct method for disposing Qur'anic ayahs that have been written on paper? Do they have to be burnt or buried or can they be thrown in rubbish bags? Is it an act of adab or Shari'ah?
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Shariah Law/Property
Is picking up money or anything from the streets a sin? and why?
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Shariah Law/General
I had a dream that I was in masjid nabi in medinah, and I was sitting alone in the masjid leaning against the wall and I was repeatedly crying non stop, above my head was the coffin of our beloved prophet SAW and Abu Bakr RA. Then for some reason I...
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Shariah Law/Women & Children
I am a doctor by profession, and work in hospital based medicine. Recently it has been announced that doctors will have to wear tops with arms upto their elbows leaving that below the elbow bare. I am very concerned as a female doctor, I understand...
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Shariah Law/Male Female Interaction
Could you tell me, according to Islam, who should a hermaphrodite/shemale marry? What rights does such a person have? Should he/she read her/he Salah at the Masjid or at home?
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Shariah Law/General
I heard that some people are able to control jinn’s by reading certain surahs for 40 days and this enables them to do things like seeing in to the past. Could you please clarify this (with evidence if possible)?
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