Ustadh Farid Dingle is asked if it is permissible to cut ties to in-laws who are abusive in order to ward off harm to oneself and one’s children. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I am in need of advice. As a daughter in law, I have cut ties with my husband’s brother […]
Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat advises on how to bear the trials and hardships that one faces with patience and acceptance. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I’m a young adult and it seems my family and I have never ending financial difficulties. I feel we are all doing our best, yet we struggle […]
Answered by Ustadha Raidah Shah Idil Question I am a Muslim woman in her early twenties, living with my parents and I have always had trouble in my household. I have grown up in a toxic and violently abusive environment with consistent emotional, verbal and psychological abuse, and at many times physical abuse. I am […]
Shaykh Jamir Meah is asked if buying a house across from a temple dedicated to another religion is permissible. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. Is buying a house opposite to a non-Muslim Temple permissible? Answer: Wa alaykum assalam wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I pray you are well insha Allah. There […]
Ustadh Tabraze Azam gives a detailed account of the adab or proprieties of eating and sleeping according to the Sunna. Imam Sha‘rani, the masterful gnostic of the inward sciences, noted that it may well be that the eternal divine pleasure of Allah Most High is found in an act of worship which most people […]
Shaykh Jamir Meah offers counsel on how to establish prayer, to make up missed prayers, and how to deal with emotional stumbling blocks. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I have been suffering from this problem for years. It is the worst problem in my life and I’m very scared. I have […]
Shaykh Abdul Rahim Reasat> gives advice on how to overcome doubts about one’s faith, and to seek help against self-sabotage. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I have a question about consistency in my ibada. Honestly, sometimes I feel like not being honest in them because I’m not consistent like in my […]
Answered by Ustadh Tabraze Azam Question I have bad thoughts that keep coming over to me these last few days. It was really hard, and I tried my best every time not to entertain these bad thoughts. I have bad thoughts about like “leave Islam,” or something like “Apostate, I’m an apostate” and such. For […]
Ustadh Tabraze Azam is asked if saying one is divorced in jest or thoughtlessness to others in conversation or chat counts as a legal divorce. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. If one says words like “I am divorced” or “I got divorced” (not the exact wording as it happened a long […]
Cori Mancuso interviews Shaykh Yahya Rhodus on the importance of seeking obligatory knowledge, balancing religious and worldly affairs, and engaging in traditional and western approaches to education. CM: For Muslims who are seeking a foundational knowledge of Islam, or their fard ayn, what knowledge should be obligatory for them to learn? Why is it […]
