FILED UNDER: ANS Death, ANS General Counsel, ANS Medicine, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: death, euthanasia, illness
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Jamir Meah answers a question related to Euthanasia and its ruling in Islamic law. Question: My question is regarding the medically assisted death option which patients in hospitals are choosing. I’m completing a clinical pastoral education unit in a hospital and was recently asked if I would assist patients who have chosen medically assisted […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Zakat, ANS Zakat, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: inheritance, zakah
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Abdurrahim Reasat answers a question related to the payment of Zakat on foreign property (according to the Hanafi school of thought). Question: Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatahuh Hope you are well. I have a question re. zakat. My family has put a property abroad under my name – presumably to avoid problems […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Living Religion, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: evil eye, jealousy, pride
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Farid Dingle answers a question on how to protect oneself from the evil eye. Question: Salam, How do we protect ourselves from the evil eye and jealousy, but without being excessive? For example if you have a child and you want to protect him/her from evil eye, do you just not post a […]
FILED UNDER: ANS - Supplication and Prayer, ANS General Counsel, ANS Prayer, ANS Prayer, ANS Shafi'i Fiqh, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: making up missed prayers, Ramadan, tarawih prayer
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Farid Dingle answers a question related to praying Tarawih salaah when one has overdue obligatory prayers to complete (according to the Shafi school of thought). Question: Assalamu alaikum. For the past three years I haven’t been praying salah consistently and sometimes didn’t pray for months on end. I’m now taking my deen more […]
FILED UNDER: ANS - Supplication and Prayer, ANS General Counsel, ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Prayer, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog), Uncategorized
TAGGED WITH:: Hanafi Fiqh, hanafi prayer, prayer, work
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Tabraze Azam answers a question related to performing the Asr prayer at an earlier time due to work commitments, according to the Hanafi school of thought. Question: Assalaam Alaykum Respected shaykh(s), I have an issue in that I find it difficult to pray Asr at the later (predominant) Hanafi time due to work commitments (there […]
FILED UNDER: ANS - Supplication and Prayer, ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Prayer, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: errors in recitation, Hanafi Fiqh, prayer
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Abdurrahim Reasat advises when to recite the ta’awwudh in prayer, according to the Hanafi school of thought. Question: Salamu alaikum, I am trying to bring my salah in line with Hanafi fiqh. Should I say ta’awudh (“I seek protection in Allah from shaytan, the accursed one.”) and bismillah after reciting surah al-fatiha and […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Health, ANS Medicine, ANS Mental Health, ANS Shafi'i Fiqh, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: gelatin, health, medicine, medicine with unlawful ingredients
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Jamir Meah answers a question related to the permissibility of prescribing medication which contains gelatin. Question: Salaam, I know it is haram to take medicine that has haram elements in it (like gelatin capsules) if there is a reasonable alternative (such as tablets). So as a muslim psychiatrist, many of our medicines have […]
FILED UNDER: ANS - Supplication and Prayer, ANS General Counsel, ANS Prayer, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: Hanafi Fiqh, hanafi prayer, minimum valid recitation, prayer
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Abdurrahim Reasat answers a question related to the audibility of recitation in prayer, according to the Hanafi school of thought. Question: Assalamu alaikum, I only recently learned that one must move their lips during recitation in prayer. Are all of my past prayers invalid? Does that ruling also apply to duas made throughout […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Purity, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: ablution, nullification of ablution, ritual purity, wudu
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Abdurrahim Reasat answers a question related to the discharge of fluid under one’s skin and its effect on ablution, according to the Hanafi school of thought. In addition, he clarifies what is meant by an external agent. Question: Assalamu alaikum, I am slightly confused regarding what is meant by an external agent in […]
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 […]
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