Question: What is Manhaj (methdology)? And what is the difference between it and Aqeedah (creed)? Answer: Allah azza wa jal says: “[Say (O Muhammad) to these idolaters (pagan Arabs) of your folk:] Follow what has been sent down unto you from your Lord (the Quran and Prophet Muhammad’s Sunnah), and follow not any Auliya’ (protectors and helpers, etc. who order…
Living separate from Parents – Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan
Question: the Questioner says he lives in a house separate from his parents, does that contradict complete kindness to the parents? Answer: No, that does not contradict complete kindness to the parents. It is not a must that you live with your parents. However, [if] you stand in their service and for their needs you are kind to them, whether…
Conflict between congregational prayer and an Exam – Shaikh Al-Albani
Question: If the time for congregational prayer conflicts with the time of an exam or in the middle of it, then what is the response? Answer: The one who enrolls into the likes of this school, which establishes in it methodologies or rules that do not observe the ruling of the shariah, then it is obvious that it will have…
Ruling on Beef Gelatin – Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen
Question: What is the ruling on food that contains what is called gel or beef gelatin? Answer: If we know that the cow died by other than a human action or that the slaughterer did not slaughter the legislated slaughtering or it is from what is not permitted to slaughter, then it is dead meat, not permitted to eat it. So if…
Qunoot in the Fajr Prayer – Sheikh Muqbil ibn Haadi ibn Waadi’ee
Question: What is the ruling on Qunoot in the Fajr prayer? Answer: It is considered a Bid’ah (innovation) except in conditions of disaster. Then [in these conditions] the Qunoot is in all the prayers like how the Prophet (May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to do as in the hadeeth of Ibn Umar and Abu…
Ruling on the one who curses the Jinn – Shaykh Muqbil ibn Haadi al-Wad’iee
Question: What is the ruling on the one who curses the Jinn? Answer: If he means by it the Shaayateen (the devils), then what is most deserving is that he should say: Bismillah (in the Name of Allah) and that he remembers Allah for that is more deserving than the one who curses them. Otherwise it is allowed since the…
The virtue of Abu Bakr and Umar – Haafidh Zubair Ali Zai
Shaikh Haafidh Zubair Ali Zai rahimahullah wrote in his book Fadaail-us-Sahaabah: “Imam Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Hussain al-Baaqir rahimahullah said: مَنْ جَهِلَ فَضْلَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرَ ، فَقَدْ جَهِلَ السُّنَّةَ “Whoever is ignorant of the virtue of Abu Bakr…
Salatu Tasabeeh – Sheikh Muqbil ibn Haadi al-Waad’iee
Question: What is the authenticity of Salatu Tasabeeh? Answer: The scholars have differed in this matter. As for Ibn Jawzi he mentioned it in Al- Mawdooa’at. Some of our contemporary scholars ruled it as fabricated. As for Ibn Nasirud Deen Ad-Dimishqee then he has a treatise on its authentication. Also likewise the brother Saleem Al-Hilali has a treatise in its authentication.…
Ruling on wearing caps [baseball caps] – Shaykh Bin Uthaymeen
Question: Oh Virtuous Shaikh, recently the wearing of caps has spread among the children and older youth. So what is the ruling on wearing them? Answer: Some people claim that these caps, which have brim, are worn to protect from the light of the sun and its heat. However, these claims are not correct in reality because we find one…
Ruling on saying the Hawqalah (La huwla wa La quwwata illa Billah) when a disbeliever dies and supplicating for him – Shaikh Bin Baz
Question: If a man or woman dies and he/she was a disbeliever, is it allowed that we say: إن لله وإنا إليه راجعون We belong to Allah and to him we shall return or is it not allowed? Also is it allowed that we say: يا أيتها النفْس الْمطْمئنة ارْجعي إلى ربك راضية مرْضية (It will be said to…