FILED UNDER: ANS Children, ANS Marriage and Divorce, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: divorce, intending divorce, neglect of spouse, rights of a spouse, rights of a wife
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil is asked if it is permissible to divorce a spouse who consistently refuse to help with childcare and household chores. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. My husband and I have been having arguments on and off for the past few years. My husband doesn’t help me with […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Children, ANS Family Ties, ANS General Counsel, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Marriage, ANS Parents, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog), Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
TAGGED WITH:: cutting ties, dealing with parents, family relations, family ties, limits of obeying parents, parental consent, parents approval
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil gives a detailed answer on being asked by parents to cut ties with a brother. I have an older brother who is very dear to me (raised me and my sister very well). He is a really great guy, but recently he has “fallen in love” with a horrible woman. She […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Children, ANS Family Ties, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Marriage, ANS Parents, ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: appearance, beautification, skin color modification, skin-lightening creams
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil is asked about being forced by parents to use skin-lightening cream. I am a brown-skinned girl from South Asia. My parents lately have been really forcing me to apply skin-lightening cream on my face. I really do not want to put it as I’m content and thankful with how Allah have […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Children, ANS Family Ties, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Parents, ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: adopted children, adopted parents, adoption, family relations, mahram
/by YusufShaykh Jamir Meah advises on adoption, the rulings on mahram, and telling the truth to an adopted child. My question is: I was childless me and my husband adapted the son of my husband’s brother. Ten years ago my husband died. This boy is 29 and I am 60 so there is huge age gap. […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Adab, ANS Children, ANS Modesty, ANS Parents, ANS-General, Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
TAGGED WITH:: commanding the good and forbidding the evil, family relations, headscarf (hijab), mother, son
/by YusufUstadh Farid Dingle is asked whether a son can force his mother to wear hijab. Can a teenage son force his mother into hijab or certain types of clothing? A teenage son cannot force his mother to do anything, but he can and must, just like anyone else, command her to comply to Sharia which […]
FILED UNDER: ANS - Supplication and Prayer, ANS Children, ANS Health, ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: illness, jinn, ruqya
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil eases concerns regarding a baby who won’t eat or drink. My eight-month-old daughter has been ill for the past three months and has not been drinking milk. She refuses food and milk and has been in hospital three times to be fed via an NG tube. The doctors don’t know what’s […]
FILED UNDER: ANS - Supplication and Prayer, ANS Children, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Health, ANS Medicine, ANS Parents
TAGGED WITH:: beta thalassemia, duas to bear children, in vitro fertilization, ivf
/by YusufShaykh Jamir Meah answers questions about In Vitro Fertilization. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa baraktuh. I had a miscarriage in December 2017 and was advised that I have to follow up for six months. Once the six months ended I found out that my husband and I both have beta thalassemia. So our children […]
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