Fatawa

Are Our Fathers and Grandfathers Who Did Not Know Tawheed, Considered From the People of Fatra? – Shaikh al-Albani

Question: Our fathers and grandfathers who did not study Tawheed nor knew what it was, are they from the people of the Fatrah? Shaikh: “The question has detail according to the mind. The intent is those who are void from the Da’wah of Tawheed. Many people do not know Tawheed nor have studied it because the Arab were an unlettered…

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Are the Seventy-Three Sects Known and are the Jahmiyyah part of the Seventy-Three? – Shaikh Abdul-Muhsin al-‘Abbaad

Question: May Allah preserve you, do the Scholars determine or enumerate the sects which come in the Hadith about seventy three sects? And are the Jahmiyyah part of the seventy three sects? Answer: “The Scholars mention the origin of these sects. As for the Jahmiyyah, then some of the People of Knowledge did not count them as not being part…

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The Ruling on Buying Something in Installments – Shaikh Yahya ibn Ali al-Hajuri

Question: Some companies sell boats or machinery in installments. However, they increase the real price due to the installments. So what is the ruling on purchasing from them? Answer: “There is no preventative for that. This is what the majority of the Scholars are upon. For example, if they say, this boat costs one hundred thousand in cash or one…

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Why Was the Sphinx of Egypt Not Destroyed by the Earlier Generations? – Shaikh Muqbil Ibn Haadi al-Wadi’ee

Shaikh Hussain al-Hatibi (may Allah preserve him) mentions that Shaikh Muqbil (may Allah have mercy upon him) said regarding the Sphinx: “It is a statue of a lion in Egypt from the time of Pharaoh. The issue regarding it is that generations passed over it, Egypt was conquered, and it was not destroyed despite the presence of the evidences for…

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