Answered by Sidi Salman Younas
Question: What are the differences between the adhan and iqama?
Answer: assalamu `alaykum
Generally, the call to prayer (adhan) and the call to commence (iqama) are the same. However, there are a few differences between them, which include:
1. The additional wording of “the prayer has commenced” (qad qamat al-salat) in the iqama.
2. The [...]

Answered by Ustadha Zaynab Ansari Abdul-Razacq
Question: I converted two weeks ago and am learning how to properly pray. While learning the obligatory actions, I always prayed in congregation to see step by step what actions were required. Later, I started adding wajib and sunna actions. Until I learnt them, I sometimes recited the general meaning [...]

Answered by Ustadha Zaynab Ansari Abdul-Razacq

Question: [1] If one’s parents have two children. They have allowed the son to marry and migrate and the girl receive offer to marriage inclusive with migration. Is the girl allowed to accept this offer, in view that if she does leave, no one will be able to be [...]

Answered by Sidi Salman Younas
Question: I have committed many sins in my life but have repented from them. Is my marriage still valid as I heard that he who makes the impermissible permissible has committed disbelief?
Answer: assalamu `alaykum
I pray you are well.
There is no need to be confused and your marriage remains valid.
The mere performance [...]

Answered by Sidi Salman Younas
Question: [1] Is it permissible under the Hanafi madhab for women to visit the graveyard? [2] Every year on my mothers death anniversary my dad makes some sweet food and he distributes it at our local mosque for people to eat and enjoy and to make dua for my mother. Is [...]

Answered by Sidi Salman Younas
Question: Does a woman who couldn’t fast during Ramadan because of the pregnancy and suckling have to make up all the days or they is other halal options?
Answer: assalamu `alaykum
Yes, a pregnant woman who was unable to fast must make up the number of fasts she missed. This would be obligatory [...]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Question: Are credit cards permitted if you ensure to make payments on time and not incur interest? Also, is one allowed to accept points or cash back from credit cards?
Answer: Walaikum assalam,
Contemporary scholars generally agree that it is permitted to use credit cards with the following conditions:
1. One has the firm [...]

Answered by Shaykh Nuh Keller
Question: The Concept of Bid’a in the Islamic Shari’a
Answer: The following is the text of a talk given by Shaikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller at Nottingham and Trent University on Wednesday 25th January 1995.
In the name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
There are few topics that generate as much controversy today [...]

Answered by Sidi Salman Younas
Question: Would you be able to tell me about the permissibility of having iphone applications like the Quran or Tafsir on one’s phone. What if I have to visit the lavatory and I have no place to leave my phone during these times except in my trouser or jacket pocket?
Answer: assalamu [...]

Answered by Sidi Salman Younas
Question: Is the narration “I am by the side of those whose hearts are broken for My sake” authentic? What does it mean?
Answer: assalamu `alaykum
I pray you are well.
The saying, “I am with those whose hearts are broken (munkasirah) for My sake” was:
(a) Mentioned as a prophetic report by Ghazali in [...]