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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Ruling on Chocolate – Shaykh Al Albani
Shaikh Al-Albani: What is with you [of question]? Questioner: The issue of food: there are types of chocolate or other than chocolate which have attached to it an amount of alcohol during the manufacturing. However, it is said that this amount of chocolate changes/converts. So does this [chocolate] take the ruling of cheese in this condition? Shaikh Al Albani: This…
University Housing (Dorms) and Sleeping Alone – Shaikh Al-Albani
Question: Tayyib (good) Oh Shaikh- the Hadith from the Prophet (ﷺ): نهى أنْ يَبِيتَ الرَّجُل وحده، أو يُسافِر وحَدَه He prohibited for a man to sleep alone or to travel alone [Silsilatus-Saheeha no. 60] If a group of students are in University housing (Dorms) with every person in a room, [does that] enter within the prohibition or not? Shaikh: It…
The Ruling on price-fixing – Shaykh Al-Albani
Question: Some businessmen agree to sell merchandise, for example the price of the merchandise is five riyals, they all agree that it will be five riyals. So what is the ruling on this? Answer: Agreeing to this is not allowed because the Prophet (ﷺ) said: دَعُوا النَّاسَ يَرْزُقُ اللَّهُ بَعْضَهُمْ مِنْ بَعْضٍ Leave the people alone and let Allah…
Ruling on Rennet in Cheese – Shaikh Al-Albani
Question: Some of the manufactured cheese in the Christian lands states that in its preparation there is rennet from a calf. So is this rennet impermissible following its origin, if most likely, it is not slaughtered in the shariah manner? Answer: “No, because the action of the Companions was eating cheese, which came to them from the lands of…
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 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…
Fraud in order not to pay taxes? – Shaikh Al-Albani
Question: Is fraud, in order to not pay taxes. permissible? Answer: Fraud is not from the ways of the Shariah and from another angle, taxes are not legislated in Islam except in necessity- as came in the previous question. However it is not allowed for the Muslim to tread a path in contrary to the established system. If his behavior…
Ruling on Taxes – Shaikh Al-Albani
Question: What is the Islamic ruling on Taxes? Answer: Taxes are what are called المكوس (tolls). The tolls are from what the Muslim scholars have agreed are not permissible except in one situation, which Imam Shaatibi spoke about in detail in his book Al-‘Itisaam when he spoke about innovation, that his statement (ﷺ): “every innovation is misguidance and every misguidance…
Ruling on carrying a Mushaf in your pocket while entering the Washroom? – Shaikh Al-Albani
Question: What is the ruling of a person entering the washroom and in his pocket is a Mushaf, knowing that it if he places it outside the washroom he will forget it or lose it? Answer: He is not sinful the one who enters the washroom with a Mushaf in his pocket because it is not uncovered and it is…