Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question I built a white-label trading platform that supports leveraged forex and contracts for difference. I never trade, take no share of the revenue, and earn a fixed salary. Is my work lawful, and does building the features that place these trades make me an assistant in unlawful transactions? Answer […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question My father was given framed pictures said to be for protection, and he passed a couple on to me, one of them a Nad e Ali written in the shape of a lion, with writing underneath and numeric boxes in each corner, like a taweez. May I own and […]

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 A teacher discussing the readings of the Quran cited the variant ghalabati l-Rum at Quran 30:2, attributed to Ali and other Companions, and rejected it as anomalous for want of mass transmission. This confused me. If the only defect is a lack of mass transmission rather than a broken […]