FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Repentance, ANS-General, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: childhood, others property, repentance, rights of others
/by Yousuf PatelShaykh Abdurrahim Reasat provides advice on how to rectify errors and mistakes in childhood when the property and rights of others have been infringed upon. Question: As-Salaamu A’laykum, 1. As a child, I remember that when I was in primary school, I would play with the glue sticks and I would remove some of […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Repentance, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: charity, expiation, repentance, stealing, theft
/by YusufUstadh Farid Dingle gives advice on how to make amends for having stolen from a friend one no longer is in contact with. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. When I was in school my friend went to the bathroom and gave her lunchbox to me. I took one of the chicken […]
FILED UNDER: ANS - Supplication and Prayer, ANS Prayer, ANS Repentance, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: abandoning prayer, Allah's Forgiveness, asking forgiveness, doubts in prayer, establishing prayer, patience, tawba
/by YusufShaykh Abdul Rahim Reasat gives advice on how to overcome doubts about one’s faith, and to seek help against self-sabotage. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I have a question about consistency in my ibada. Honestly, sometimes I feel like not being honest in them because I’m not consistent like in my […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Mental Health, ANS Repentance, ANS Theology, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: baseless misgivings, doubts about islam, misgivings and doubts, true faith, waswasa
/by YusufUstadh Tabraze Azam explains that baseless misgivings about one’s Islam are part of pure faith and such thoughts do not put one outside of the fold. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I have bad thoughts keep coming over to me this last few days. It was really hard and I tried […]
FILED UNDER: ANS - Supplication and Prayer, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Repentance, ANS-General, Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Paradise and Hell
TAGGED WITH:: expiation, pain, prayer of need, salat al-haja, sinful relationship
/by YusufShaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat advises on the pain of ending an illicit relationship and turning to Allah. Four years ago, I was in a haram relationship with a female. We were both conscious of our din and so had wanted to end the haram and make the relationship proper. Disobeying Allah and also keeping the relationship […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Fast, ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Oaths, ANS Repentance, ANS-General, Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
TAGGED WITH:: expiation, expiation (kaffara), expiation for oaths, kaffara
/by YusufUstadh Tabraze Azam is asked if it is sinful to delay an expiation fast for breaking an oath. Is it sinful to delay fast for an oath expiation? Yes, it is considered to be religiously sinful to delay the mandatory expiation (kaffara) of a nullified oath (yamin), unless you have a reasonable excuse to do […]
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 Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Purity, ANS Repentance, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: blood, impurity, purity, wudu
/by YusufUstadh Tabraze Azam is asked if wudu is broken when one comes in contact with blood. After coming home from a long day I went to the bathroom to make wudu. After doing wudu I noticed small bloodstains on the rug near my toes. I realized that some of my toes had dried blood on […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Repentance, ANS-General, Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
TAGGED WITH:: copyright, copyright law, illegal downloading, intellectual property
/by YusufUstadh Tabraze Azam clarifies the rulings on illegal downloading and usurping the rights of others. Unfortunately, in the past I have illegally downloaded things such as movies, shows, music, games etc, using various apps to illegally download, Can you please tell me how to go forward from this, is this classed as stealing, do I […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Islamic Belief, ANS Repentance, ANS Theology, Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
TAGGED WITH:: blasphemous thoughts, sinful thoughts, thoughts of disbelief, thoughts of shirk
/by YusufShaykh Abdurragmaan Khan makes clear the rulings on thinking thoughts unbefitting of Allah. If someone were to bring to his mind the sentence “the Almighty has children.” At the same time he hates it and is disgusted by it, and doesn’t believe it or doesn’t hold that thought to be true because he is a […]
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