Question: How is hugging done according to the Sunnah? Shaikh: Hugging is embracing, like this. Questioner: Chest to chest? Shaikh: No. As for [providing] an accurate description, then we cannot say: chest to chest or side to chest. Whichever way it is easy for you [i.e. that is the way to hug]. [Taken from Fatawaa Raabigh no. 4 found here:…
Month: June 2014
Are the general folk of Europe and other than them from the People of Fatrah – Shaikh Muqbil ibn Haadi al-Wadi’ee
Question: Are the disbelievers in France, Britain, America, and other than them considered from the people of the Fatrah [those who died between the Prophethood] although they have something of knowledge and awareness of Islam? So for example, they know that the Two Testimonies and prayer are from the five pillars etc. and the Allah is one. So what is…
Ruling on Handbags – Shaikh Muqbil
Question: It is spread between the women today to carry a handbag when they leave the house and sometimes there is nothing in it and there is no need for it. So what is the ruling of this and is it imitating the disbelieving women or not? Answer: If this matter came from the enemies of Islaam, then it is…
Ruling on working as a Fashion Designer – Shaikh Ibn Uthaymeen
Question: Oh Virtuous Shaikh, is working as a fashion designer impermissible knowing that he cannot find other work or that he stays away from facial drawings and he works in making it [i.e. the clothing]? Jazakallahu Khairan Answer: Everyone who works in the impermissible, then it is impermissible for him because it is from the affair of cooperating in evil…
The Ruling of Combing the hair every other day – Shaikh Yahya ibn Ali al-Hajoori
Question: What is the ruling on combing the hair everyday for men and women? Answer: “He (ﷺ) used to comb his hair every other day*. In reality, this is not a prohibition, however, if he combs his hair every other day, one day he does it and the other day he leaves it off and the likes of that, and…
Ruling on playing with the beard,which results in some hair falling off- Shaikh Raajihi
Question: Some people play with their beards sometimes, then some hair falls from it. Is there a sin upon them because of that? Answer: The falling of dead hair does not harm when showering and when making wudu, however, it is necessary for a person not to play [with his beard] deliberately. May Allah facilitate everyone towards his obedience. …
Is the Addition Sign Considered a Cross? – Shaikh Al-Albani
Question: is the addition sign which is on the clothes considered a cross? And is it allowed to pray wearing? Answer: “Yes, I was forced to innovate an innovation [I.e. a worldly innovation] to remove the crosses which the Muslims have been afflicted with even on their calculators. So this is a cross. Like this, it is necessary for the…
Ruling of Eid Salah in a Musallah inside the City – Shaikh Al-Albani
Question: Is it a must that the Musallah of Eid be outside the city? And what is the ruling of establishing it in a Soccer arena/ground? Answer: The origin of the musallah of eid is that it is outside the city, this is the Sunnah. So if that is easy for you then you have done well, If it is…
Ruling on Leopard-skin and Snake-skin shoes – Shaikh Abdul Muhsin Al-‘Abbad
Question: In our lands, they make shoes from leopard-skin and from Snake skin , so is this allowed to wear? Answer: That which is clear is using the skin of wild beasts is not allowed. [Sharh Sunan Abu Dawood no. 453] Translated by Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan Abu Sulaymaan
Ruling on preferring those on the right side while entering – Shaikh Bin Baz
Question: I asked our Shaikh about the action of the people of preferring those on the right side to enter [thorough a door etc.] before others? Answer: The Shaikh said that he does not know anything on that subject. Then he said, if only they preferred those who are older in age [i.e. that is better] based on the hadith…