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 Health, ANS Islamic Belief, ANS Mental Health, ANS Repentance, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: despair, desparation, disbelief, guilt, shame, suicidal, suicidal thoughts, suicide, the Prophet
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil is asked about despair and contemplating suicide from being a lone Muslim. I struggle with thoughts of disbelief and suicide. I have non-Muslim family members and feel so guilty when I spend time with them during Christmas and so on. I feel ashamed about telling them I am Muslim, because of […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Hadith, ANS Health, ANS Islamic Belief, ANS Spirituality, ANS Theology, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: contagion, contagious diseases, disease, genetic disease, Islam and science, medicine
/by YusufUstadh Tabraze Azam is asked how one reconciles hadith and science on contagion. I have a teacher who is an alim from the Deobandi school of thought. My understanding of disease was that Allah created germs and that many germs are the reason for the spread of disease as they can be passed on when […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Health, ANS Islamic Belief, ANS Mental Health, ANS Parents, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: baseless misgivings, du`a, inappropriate jokes, jokes, obsessive compulsive disorder, ocd, waswasa
/by YusufShaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat is asked about compulsively saying “I’m sorry” and asking forgiveness. I became heavily afflicted with waswasa when I was unemployed mainly around najasah, but alhamduliLlah I recovered from that after starting work. But recently have developed waswasa about actions or words of kufr. Also I’m obsessed with an intense fear of being […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Health, ANS Islamic Belief, ANS Mental Health, ANS-General, Knowledge
TAGGED WITH:: belief, faith in Allah, healing, holistic medicin, thoughts of disbelief, waswasa
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil advises on how to deal with troubling and recurring thoughts. I am troubled with waswasa concerning the rightness of my belief in Allah, and nothing helps to put me at ease. What do I do? I pray this finds you well. May Allah reward you for reaching out to us. Troubling […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Health, ANS Purity, ANS Purity (shafii-fiqh), ANS Shafi'i Fiqh
TAGGED WITH:: menstrual cups, menstruation, sanitary products
/by YusufShaykh Jamir Meah is asked about the permissibility of using menstrual cups. I would like to ask a question regarding menstrual cups and if a Hanafi women can use one while on her period. Menstrual cups are inserted into the vagina to collect blood and can be re-used which makes them very eco-friendly and better […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Health, ANS Medicine, ANS Mental Health, ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: breast implants, cosmetic surgery, fatwa shopping, fatwas, following a fatwa
/by YusufShaykh Abdurragmaan Khan addresses a sister’s concerns about rulings on breast implants. I pray that you and your family are very well. May Allah reward you all and keep you firm on the path of serving, striving, and emulating the Beloved, blessings and peace be upon him. I recently read this SeekersHub reply on breast […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Fast, ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Health, ANS Medicine, ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: contraceptive implant, fasting, medicine and fasting
/by YusufUstadh Tabraze Azam is asked about fasting while using a contraceptive implant. If one has a contraceptive implant fitted into their arm, are the fasts they keep legally valid? Yes, your fasts are legally valid whilst you have a contraceptive implant in your arm. This is because there is no entry of a substance into […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Health, ANS Marriage, ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: marriage difficulties, masturbation, mutual masturbation, orgasm
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil gives advice on dealing with an inability to orgasm in marriage. I’ve been married for over a year to my husband and haven’t reached orgasm. I understand that it takes longer for a woman to orgasm than it does for a man, but that’s not a reason for me to not […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Health, ANS Maliki Fiqh, ANS Mental Health, ANS Purity, ANS Purity (maliki-fiqh), ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: dispensation, filth, impurities, najas, obsessive compulsive disorder, ocd
/by YusufUstadh Salman Younas advises on how to deal with impurities when suffering from OCD. I have been struggling with OCD for the past few years. It’s mainly obsessive thoughts about impurities (najas). I have read that certain things that are considered najis in the Hanafi madhab aren’t najas in, for example, the Maliki maddhab. My […]
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