Question: What is the ruling on reciting Qur’an before a marriage contract? Answer: Seeking to recite Qur’an before a marriage contract was not done by the Prophet (ﷺ) and no one from the Companions radiallahu anhu as far as we know. So this is from the innovations: «من أحدث في أمرنا هذا ما ليس منه فهو رد» Whoever innovates…
Month: January 2014
Ruling on Chocolate – Shaykh Al Albani
Shaikh Al-Albani: What is with you [of question]? Questioner: The issue of food: there are types of chocolate or other than chocolate which have attached to it an amount of alcohol during the manufacturing. However, it is said that this amount of chocolate changes/converts. So does this [chocolate] take the ruling of cheese in this condition? Shaikh Al Albani: This…
Social security and retirement payment – Shaykh Muqbil Bin Haadi al-Waadi’ee
Question 218: What is the ruling on social security or the retirement system? For example, they take from a person who enters into this, a specific amount in the week or in the month. So when he gets old, they give him from this [money] which they took from him? Answer: In the likes of this, he takes in accordance…
University Housing (Dorms) and Sleeping Alone – Shaikh Al-Albani
Question: Tayyib (good) Oh Shaikh- the Hadith from the Prophet (ﷺ): نهى أنْ يَبِيتَ الرَّجُل وحده، أو يُسافِر وحَدَه He prohibited for a man to sleep alone or to travel alone [Silsilatus-Saheeha no. 60] If a group of students are in University housing (Dorms) with every person in a room, [does that] enter within the prohibition or not? Shaikh: It…