FILED UNDER: ANS Adab, ANS General Counsel, ANS Living Religion, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: adab, backbiting, community, mercy, morality
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Farid Dingle outlines the approach and etiquette that one should adopt when advising others to stop slandering. Question: As-salaam alaikum, If someone is being slandered by someone else and I defend them saying that what the person who’s slandering is saying is wrong by way of insulting the words that they used to […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Adab, ANS General Counsel, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: adab, animal treatment, mercy, sunna
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Jamir Meah advises on how we should treat wild animals such as lions and tigers. Question: As-salaam alaikum, We know that our prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) loved cats, and thus we as Muslims are to treat cats with kindness and respect. Does this apply to larger cats like lions and tigers? To what extent? […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Adab, ANS General Counsel, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: children's names, colloquial language, metaphorical use of words, prohibited names
/by YusufUstadh Farid Dingle is asked of using noble terms as colloquial expressions of approval or praise in a metaphorical sense is permissible. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. Is it wrong to refer to things of this world as “heaven/heavenly/paradise”? For example, “This cake is heavenly” or, “My home is my paradise.” […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Adab, ANS Halal and Haram, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: offensive language, profanity, swearing, vulgar language, vulgarities
/by YusufShaykh Jamir Meah gives advice on how best to respond to vulgar language used by others in the workplace. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I come in to contact with people in my work place as I go about my work who, as a means of conversation swear for example when […]
FILED UNDER: ANS - Supplication and Prayer, ANS Adab, ANS Islamic Belief, ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: duas, invocations (dua), prohibited duas, supplication, supplications
/by YusufUstadh Farid Dingle is asked if there are prohibited duas, or a limit to what Allah gives. There are a lot of sites saying that Allah answers all your duas. But are there not certain duas that are prohibited e.g. a dua asking Allah to beautify oneself. Can you please enlist all the duas Allah […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Adab, ANS Living Religion, ANS Sunna, ANS-General, Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
TAGGED WITH:: acting, films, lives onf the Companions, movies
/by YusufShaykh Jamir Meah is asked about watching movies of the lives of the companions. Through the years, I have seen many serials depicting the life of the Companions of the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, come out, though they do not show the Prophet himself, blessings and peace be upon him. I was […]
FILED UNDER: ANS - Supplication and Prayer, ANS Adab, ANS Shafi'i Fiqh, ANS Spirituality, ANS Sunna, Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
TAGGED WITH:: bad language, oaths, profanity, shirk, swearing, using bad language
/by YusufUstadh Farid Dingle clears up a misunderstanding about profanity, swearing, oaths, and shirk. I’d like to ask about swearing (as in taking an oath). I used to have a habit of using English profanity a lot of times. I’m currently working on it, and Alhamdulillah, I’ve made progress. Instead of using vulgar words, I usually […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Adab, ANS Hadith, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Living Religion, ANS The Prophet, ANS-General, Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
TAGGED WITH:: images, pictures, the Prophet
/by YusufShaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat answers questions on images of the Prophet found online. I am confused. The photos that are on Google and YouTube of the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, are they real or are they just uploaded by others to misguide Muslims? I pray you are well. Depicting the Prophets […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Adab, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Qur’an, ANS The Prophet, Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
TAGGED WITH:: backbiting, calumny, honor, humility, sins of the heart, sins of the tongue, slander, talebearing
/by YusufShaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat details the evils of calumny and how to respond. I want to know what Shari‘a says of a women who falsely accuses husband of impotence and rejects all medical evidence. Not only that, she has spread word about the impotence of the husband throughout the community, thereby bringing him into disrepute. I […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Adab, ANS Living Religion, ANS Oaths, ANS Shafi'i Fiqh, ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: expiation (kaffara), expiation for breaking an oath, kaffara
/by YusufUstadh Farid Dingle answers a question about expiation for broken oaths. I have been gaining weight recently. In an attempt to curb that, I made an oath to Allah, saying “Wallahi, I will not drink any soda for the month of December.” However, at work, I just went about my day and having completely forgotten […]
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