Question: We read a Juz everyday in Taraweeh as a fixed amount. Does this action reach the level of innovation? What is the ruling on giving some admonishments between the rak’aat of Taraweeh? Answer: “If the admonishments are not continuous, then there is no harm. [As for] reading a Juz or two Juz or three Juz, then what is more deserving…
Category: Fatawa
The Ruling on Working on Computers and Using them For Ultrasound and to Determine the Weather – Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen
Question: What is the ruling on working on the computer, in that it [is capable of] judging what is in the womb of the mothers in terms of a child being a male or female? It can also report [the timings] for the rise and setting of the sun a month before [of its occurrence], and also about the clouds…
Does the Mu’adhin Break His Fast Before Making the Adhan or After it? – Shaikh Muqbil bin Haadi al-Wadi’ee
Question: Is it recommended for the mu’adhin to break the fast before the adhan knowing that the laymen say it is necessary that he breaks the fast before the adhan? Answer: “If he breaks the fast before he makes the adhan, then that is better. For the time has entered: لا تزالُ أُمِّتِي بخيرِ ما عَجَّلُوا الإفطارَ وأخَّرُوا السُّحورَ “My…
The Ruling on Using a Nasal Spray While Fasting – Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen
Question: I suffer from allergies in my nose and I use a nasal spray as a cure. If I do not use it, then there will be great difficulty [on me] in terms of shortness of breathing. I am not able to be patient without treatment for more than three hours. If I do not use it, my breathing will…
How Should a Student of Knowledge Balance Their Schedule During Ramadan? – Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen
Question: If a student of knowledge placed a schedule for himself in the day and night. So for example, he spends two-thirds of the time memorizing mutoon and for reading and the remaining of the time for eating, drinking, and reciting the Quran. Should he continue upon that even in Ramadan? Or should he make most of his time for…
Is Sleight of Hand Considered Magic? – Shaikh Al-Albani
Questioner: What is the ruling on [a type of] deception which they call sleight of hand and which some people do? Shaikh: It is called what? Questioner: Sleight of hand, it is called sleight of hand Shaikh: Deception (الحيل)? Questioner: Yes, like a person pulls out money from your pocket without you realizing, then he brings it from behind your…
The Ruling on Sleight of Hand – Shaikh al-Fawzaan
Question: Oh Virtuous Shaikh: there is a type of magic which some people do called sleight of hand, whereby a person is able to show you what is not real either due to speed, or by what is invented of playing cards which have a specific tally/count, or by agility. Answer: “This is illusionary magic. This is illusionary magic. It…
Is it Recommended to Wear the Color Green? – Shaikh Abdul-Muhsin al-‘Abbaad
Question: Is there a Hadith for the recommendation of wearing green clothing? Or that it is the clothing of the People of Jannah as the Suffiyyah do [i.e. they wear green]? Answer: “As for the issue of recommendation, then we do not know of any recommendation. Recommendation came in regards to white clothing*. Wearing specific colors, like green, has spread…
The Ruling on a Man Sleeping Next to Another Man Under the Same Blanket – Shaikh Abdul-Muhsin al-‘Abbaad
Question: What is the ruling on a man sleeping with another man under one blanket? Answer: “It is not befitting. It is not necessary for them to sleep next to each other. As for if there is a barrier between them, and the blanket is long such that it is sufficient for five people, and one sleeps on one end…
Is a Good Omen (الفأل) only in a Good Word? – Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen
Question: Is a good omen (الفأل) only in a good word*? Answer: “This is an example. This is only an example. A good omen can be a good word, or something visible, or well-known. Three [types]”. [Sharh Saheeh Muslim-Kitab an-Nikah, wal-Radaa’a, wat-Talaaq, wal-La’aan, wal-‘Itq tape no. 3a]. *Translator’s Note: This is in reference to the following Hadith: عن أنس رضي…