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Reciting Dua with Tarteel (reciting in a paced measure with tajweed) – Shaykh Saleh Al Fawzaan

Shaikh Salih al Fawzan hafidhuhallah said: “This person asks about making tarteel in dua. Tarteel is in the recitation of the Qur’aan The Qur’aan is read in tarteel. As for the speech of people, Dua and otherwise, it is not read in tarteel. That is madd (elongation), ghunna, and the rules of Tajweed are for the Qur’aan alone. As for the speech of…

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Women’s Gym – Shaikh Abdul Muhsin al-‘Abbad

Question: Does a women’s gym enter into the prohibition [ie. of entering the public bath]? Answer: These women’s gyms are a new fitnah, which the women of this time have been tested by. It is upon the women and the young girls to avoid entering into the likes of these things” [Taken from Sharh Sunan Ibnul- Majah no. 267] Translated…

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Ruling on Short Stories – Shaikh Abdul Muhsin al-‘Abbad

Question: Today there is in school an art that is taught. It is called the art of short stories. The students are asked to write on a specific subject in the form of a story from their imagination. So does this enter in the prohibition of storytelling? Answer Shaikh Abdul Muhsin al-‘Abbad hafidhuhallah: “Storytelling quotes some things, as for this,…

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When does someone exit the bounds of Ahlul Sunnah – Shaikh Muqbil ibn Haadi al-Waadi’ee

Question: When does a man exit the bounds of Ahlul Sunnah? Answer: If most of his actions are in opposition to the Sunnah. For example: he establishes mawlids [the birthdays of the Prophet] and he calls upon other than Allah and that is an innovation that removes someone from the religion. Supplication to other than Allah is an innovation that…

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Ruling on Buffet – Shaikh Salih al-Fawzaan

Question: May Allah be good to you, oh possessor of virtue, this questioner says: I heard that you said that the open buffet is haram? Is this correct and what is the reason? Answer: This speech I did not say, this is a lie. I was asked about entering a buffet and a person eats what he wills and 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…

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