Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel Question With difficulties regarding attaining a Hajj package from the UK, some people have tried to go to the subcontinent (Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, etc., to their motherland) and have gone from there to Saudi Arabia for Hajj. However, some Imams have stipulated that this is not permissible, but I needed […]

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel Question I have purchased a new ihram for hajj, and it is a tubular-style ihram. The bottom half of the ihram clothing is like a large tube lungi style. I wanted to know if this is permissible in the state of Ihram. Answer In the Name of Allah, the Most […]

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch Question Inshallah, I will be performing hajj this year and want to confirm some details about Ihram for women in the Hanafi school of thought. Can a woman change her clothes once she is in the state of Ihram? Can she take off her hijab to make wudu or to […]

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel Question Plucking eyebrows is haram, yet I suffer from trichotillomania. This falls under the umbrella of OCD. I can’t stop plucking my eyebrows, and thus, their natural form changes, and I have bald spots in my eyebrows. I wonder if it’s still haram because I can’t stop plucking my eyebrows. […]