Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel Question I have read many websites saying the red/brown/yellow discharge is still your period until you see either dryness or a clear/white discharge. But what if you wipe to see yellowish discharge, then a few seconds later, on the second wipe (in the same sitting), see clear discharge? Does this […]

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel Question Is an A/V plug allowed or ok to be used for a deceased Muslim body at the mortuaries? When I participated in the ghusl of my grandma, I was told by the other Muslim ladies that it would help not to let the coffin get dirty. It was my […]

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel Question I exchanged nikah words with a friend in the presence of three female friends, and when a friend asked if I accepted her as my wife, I said “yes” three times, and when she asked, I said “yes” again. Mahr was not mentioned at all. Is this Nikah valid? […]

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel Question The wife filed for divorce in a New York court (with her parents’ permission) without informing her husband. Is this divorce valid, according to the Hanafi school? Can a wife divorce her husband, according to others (such as Shafi’i school and Salafis)? How can the marriage be saved under […]