Question: There are some people who do not attend the prayer except late and then they penetrate the rows until the first row becomes crowded and they have little respect for those who preceded them. So is their action permissible and what is your advice to them? Answer: It behooves the Muslims to have concern in the rows of the…
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Eating in Restaurants which have in them Alcohol – Shaykh Al-Albani
The Questioner: On the ruling on eating in restaurants which have in them alcohol, some brothers raise the issue that there is other than the it (alcohol) present? Shaikh Al Albani rahimahullah: that there is other than alcohol? Questioner: Yes Shaikh: We do not doubt in the impermissibility because it is entering into places in which Allah’s punishment and anger…
Reciting Qur’an before a Marriage contract – Shaykh Yahya ibn Ali al-Hajoori
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…
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…
Clarification on Ibn Jibreen
This is a clarification from Darussaafi in regards to the fatawaa of Ibn-Jibreen, may Allah forgive him, which are posted on our blog. We at Darusaafi do not follow the manhaj of Ibn Jibreen nor do we believe that he was Salafi, but rather a Hizbi Ikhwaani. Therefore, we are now taking down all the fatawaa of Ibn Jibreen on…
The Ruling on price-fixing – Shaykh Al-Albani
Question: Some businessmen agree to sell merchandise, for example the price of the merchandise is five riyals, they all agree that it will be five riyals. So what is the ruling on this? Answer: Agreeing to this is not allowed because the Prophet (ﷺ) said: دَعُوا النَّاسَ يَرْزُقُ اللَّهُ بَعْضَهُمْ مِنْ بَعْضٍ Leave the people alone and let Allah…
Fatwa on the internet – Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen
Question: Oh virtuous Shaikh! I hope that you can direct some golden advice to some of the practicing youth who devote themselves to the internet jazakallahu khairan Answer: “It is known that the internet has in it good and evil and the one seeking good in it will find it. In it is the sciences of the Shairah, sciences of…
Ruling on Visiting public displays/exhibits and Museums – Shaikh Yahya ibn Ali Al-Hajoori
Question: What is the ruling on visiting public displays/exhibits like museums and temples and the likes of them for leisure, consideration, discretion, and reflection of what is in them of misguidance, Jazakallahu khairan? Answer: In some of these Museums are idols, especially the museums of the disbelievers. So whoever is capable [ie. has the authority] of entering in these museums…