Answered by Shaykh Irshaad Sedick Question My husband is Gazan and still lives in Gaza. We are both Shafiʿi Muslims. We met online and agreed to have a nikah by WhatsApp telephone call in 2025. As I am a revert, I have no Muslim male relatives to act on my behalf, so the imam who […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question In a private message months ago, sharing the message of submission to Allah with an atheist who had been let down by religious teaching, I said: ‘Jesus was not a Christian, Buddha was not a Buddhist, Mohammed was not a Muslim. They came to teach us what we are, […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question Can a Muslim man be married in a church to a Christian woman if the conditions of the nikah are met, such as two male witnesses, given that he will obviously not take part in the Christian prayers? If that marriage is valid, does oral sex become clearly permissible, […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question I survived rape and severe domestic abuse and have been in trauma treatment for years. I cannot marry right now because I need significant time to establish that someone is safe, and I am considering consensual sexual relationships because I genuinely believe they may be part of my recovery. […]