Scholarly answers to contemporary and classical questions, grounded in the Islamic tradition.
Recently, I wrote an article in Urdu arguing that gold, rather than silver, should be adopted as the standard for determining niṣāb in zakāh. In response, the well-known Qur’an teacher, Dr Farhat Hashmi, forwarded the following question to me: Piyari…
What’s the protocol if you attend the mosque to pray and there’s a janazah going on?
You mentioned that a menstruating woman may enter Masjid al-Haram in Makkah. Does this permission apply to all areas of the mosque? Additionally, if her only purpose for being there is to assist an elderly parent, is she allowed to…
As Salam Alaykum Mufti Sb. Hope you are doing good. I was recently a victim of a credit card scam, and an unauthorized amount was taken from my account. The credit card company is now asking me to pay this…
Assalamualikum dear Shaykh, hope you and family are well. I had a question that you can answer whenever you have some time. If someone is about to purchase a house and the transaction takes about 3 months and during this…
I had a question that I wondered if you could help me with- a friend of mine is going for umrah and is likely to be on her period of the entire duration of it. Every source we’ve read online…
A sister asks: Her husband does not care whether the meat he eats is ḥalāl or not. He sometimes lies and says the meat he buys is ḥalāl, although she knows it is from the ordinary (non-ḥalāl) supermarket counter. What…
Our friend Sulaiman Qazi inquired about the authenticity of the following hadith recorded in Sunan Ibn Mājah: “Whoever dies having made a will, dies upon the path of righteousness and the way of the Sunnah, dies upon piety and martyrdom,…
My student Subaida, a well-known activist in Kerala, asked me the following: Salam Sheikh, I’ve heard that we cannot fast on Friday or Saturday alone. It should be combined with Thursday if it’s Friday, or with Sunday if it’s Saturday.…
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, Shaykh. I hope you are well. Alhamdulillah, I greatly benefit from your Sunday classes. I had a quick question, if that’s okay. What is your opinion regarding men wearing gold-plated watches? Please feel free…