Question: How do we use the water for ablution without extravagance if the water runs continuously? Answer: “water runs from the faucet in every place. So it is upon the one making ablution that when he opens the faucet that he does not open it with strength. Rather, he opens it in accordance to what suffices him. When he is…
Employees Lying and Committing Fraud on the Attendance Record – Shaikh al-Raajihi
Question: It is noticed that some employees when they arrive to the office for their work, write in the attendance record that they came at an earlier time other than the real time they arrived in. We hope from your Eminence a clarification of the ruling on these affairs? Answer: ” this is lying and fraud. This is not…
The Ruling on Bleaching the Eyebrows – Shaikh Abdul Mushsin al-‘Abbad
Question: What is the ruling on bleaching the eyebrows by dying the top and bottom of the eyebrow with a color similar to the skin color? Answer: “This is like the refinement of the eyebrow such as it disappears. The result is the same. For verily if the color changes, then it is as if it is shaved or plucked”.…
The Ruling on Writing with the Left Hand – Shaikh Abdul Muhsin al-‘Abbad
Question: What is the ruling on writing with the left hand? Answer: “if a person is need of that or his hand is accustomed to that, then there is no harm. If he is capable of writing with this right hand, then it is not allowed for him to use the left with the ability to use the right” [Sharh…
The Ruling on Beef Gelatin – Shaikh Abdul Muhsin al-‘Abbad
Question: I bought some sweets from the market, which are made in America. And I found Beef Gelatin in them. Is it allowed to eat these sweets”? Answer: “There is no preventive preventing this because the slaughter of the Jews and Christians is permissible for us”. [Sharh Sunan Abi Dawood no. 64 ] Translated By Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan Abu Sulaymaan
Th Ruling on Reciting the Remembrances During Work ? – Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan
Question: Does the reward decrease if a woman prays and completes the supplications which are recited after prayer and she is working in the house because of her circumstances? She does not have a servant and her children are playing and prevent her from completing it in her prayer place. May Allah reward you with good. Answer: “There is no harm for…
The Ruling on Praying Duha During Work Time – Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan
Question: Is it allowed for me to pray the Sunnah of Duha in the time I am working, knowing that it will not lead to missing work or delaying it? Answer: “Duha prayer is a Sunnah and it has virtue. If he is an employee and praying it will not effect his assigned work, then there is no harm in praying it.…
The Ruling on Ethyl Alcohol – Shaikh Al-Albani
Question: My Shaikh, there are two types of alcohol as the specialists say: Methyl Alcohol and Ethyl Alcohol. One of them is an intoxicant and the other is a poison. Is a little amount of poison that can kill considered unlawful? Answer: “if the affair is as you reported with an authentic chain, then they are not the same because…
The Ruling on Acupuncture – Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan
Question: What is the ruling on acupuncture? Answer: “The origin of medical treatment is permissibility, except what has shirk in it or impurity or unlawful material. So those [materials] are not used as treatment. Yes”. [https://www.alfawzan.af.org.sa/node/1960 ] Translated by Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan Abu Sulaymaan
The Ruling on Protesting Against the Insults of the Prophet (ﷺ) – Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan
Question: May Allah be good to you, the insults against the Prophet (ﷺ) have repeated in recent time in different forms from films, newspapers, and others. The question is what is the legislated stance on these insults? And a follow-up question: what is the ruling on expressing anger with these insults to the Prophet (ﷺ) by protesting? Answer: “Oh my…