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…
Month: March 2014
The Ruling on Women’s Change Rooms – Shaikh Abdul Muhsin al-‘Abbad
Question: Women’s stores have in them a room for changing and measuring. So if a woman takes off her clothes to measure herself [with the clothing]. does this enter into the prohibition? Answer: No, No. First. the likes of this action that a woman enters in a place where there are men, this is not adequate. If there is a…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Ruling on selling mixed(Halal and Haram) items in the store – Shaikh Muqbil
Shaikh Muqbil ibn Haadi al-Waad’iee rahimahullah was asked: Question: If a Muslim sells in his store some haram things, is all of his money haram? Answer: No, in accordance to what he sells. The wealth remains with suspicion and ambiguity. Piety/cautiousness (الورع ) is to leave it off. As for him, then the sin [on him] is in extent to what…
Is it permissible to penetrate the rows until the first row – Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan
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…
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…