Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question I joked with a friend that an anticlimactic situation was like the hadith of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) eating chicken, since that report seems relatively unimportant. Now I fear I have committed disbelief by mocking, and if I have not, are jokes like these […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question I rate films publicly, and some of them contain disbelief (kufr), such as references to Greek gods or a blasphemous line from a character. If I rate one highly for its story, acting, and direction while rejecting its disbelief, is that itself disbelief? Would a low rating be disbelief, […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question Since I was twelve, I have gone through repeated cycles of praying, then abandoning prayer, each time promising Allah I would change, and breaking every promise. After a difficult period that included a death in my family, a hatred toward Allah, the Prophet, and Islam entered my heart that […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question Out of ignorance, I once thought that Allah Most High has no need to be grateful to anyone, because I judged that gratitude did not befit His Majesty. I later learned that al-Shakur, the Most Grateful, is among His names. Did that ignorance take me out of Islam? And […]