i wanna be smart. However, can i be lazy too?!

Q: Ya Imaan, I heard your talk on success and also your speech at the Sunday school graduation.  yeah, btw mic system needs upgrading! I am been trying to memorize and rememorize certain things I have leant for 3 years of and on. Can you give me some advice on how I can memorize? I am at a point where I am giving up hope. Is there anything that can strengthen my memory? (email)

if you touched by a soul, it could be a real!

Q: imaam, I appreciate the clarity you bring at graveyard on many accasions about what is to be read/not read, done/not done. I also appreciate it when you tell families to make own duas beccuze their duas are more likely to be accepted due to their sabr. Although not at first.

You also mentioned something about the soul. I want to know does the soul of the dead visit the home they died inn? Does it come to the home of the dead on Thursday night? ask for money? Ask the son to go for hajj? Can we pray fard for them that they did not perform and pray ours later in life?

kind husband wants to pay it all — first ask

Q: Asalamualaikum,

I was wondering how does a husband go about paying zakaat on his wife’s gold jewelry that he has given as a gift for their marriage??? I may be incorrect but I believe…that the responsibility lies upon her to pay the zakaat??? however as a loving husband how would I pay it on her behalf?

Time: Wednesday May 19, 2010 at 1:24 am

in-laws verses parents

Q: Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullah Shaykh,

Does one need to respect one’s in-laws in the same way as one respects one’s parents? Is there a difference in a man’s relationship with his in-laws from a way a woman interacts with her in-laws?

JazakumAllahu khairan.

Time: Wednesday May 19, 2010 at 6:30 am

Stories of the Stupid and the Oblivious by Ibn Al-Jawzee

Stories of the Stupid and the Oblivious by Ibn Al-Jawzee

(Page 166, Dar-Al Fikr 1990)

narrated Ibn al-Faraj, my father said” I saw a man on corner of the street tickling himself to laugh.  I inquired what are you doing?  The man replied I felt sad so I wanted to laugh a little!

Translation and contribution for youth reformation:

Br Yassir Butt

facebook has now proven to be fitnah book

[This article is the soul work of:] By Khalid Baig

With the latest in-your-face act of the Facebook, the issue is once again attracting headlines. Should Muslims react? How should they react? Where do they stand on the philosophical issue underlying all this?

restroom, men, clothes, bladder burst in the works

Q:

Assalamualaikum,

At times I have to use the restroom at work and am aware as Muslims it is not permissible to stand while urinating without a valid excuse. Also as we are aware that the places of relieving oneself in our American society are filthy especially the mens’ restrooms due to men urinating all over, not only the seat but as well as the floor etc etc.  The question is in this situation what do we as Muslims do when we have to relieve ourselves in such facilities? I do not like to stand and relieve myself but in most cases if I try to sit and relieve myself then my clothes may come in contact with the urine on the floor thus making my salah invalid. Take note I do not wear my trousers below my ankles, I have exhausted trying to locate a private restroom, such as one the administration at my workplace uses that may be kept clean and would suffice for me to relieve myself and In most cases I do not use the restroom unless my bladder is absolutely going to burst.  Then I usually am forced to
stand and relieve myself and sometimes I don’t know if my clothes have had urine slash on to my clothes because if one stands you see the urine splash because the pressure of relieving oneself but I feel ashamed to do this because it is against the etiquette’s of relieving oneself in Islam.  What to do? Would I still be held accountable for this in the sight of Allah SWT?  Should I repeat my salah upon returning home?  I do know that many Muslim males are undergoing the same challenge.  Please advise

Thanks,
Allah Hafiz

Time: Tuesday May 18, 2010 at 3:52 am

face-covering

Q: I am a female. I am shafaee. Is the face covering necessary? I was told by a shafee scholar that we do not need to cover our faces in America because it would casue big problems. Any help to clear the matter? FYI: You know this scholar very well

its all about who calls the shots

‘When you attack black people, they call it racism. When you attack Jewish people, they call it anti-Semetism. When you attack women,

choice of purchase, how long does it remain?

Q: Ya imaam we would like to know what is khiyarul maglis (choice of a transaction as related to a specific gathering) How does Imaan Shafee define it? We are both shafees. Can 1 buy the product later or i can never walk back to that store and product we disagreed on? Can some1else buy that product?Time: Friday March 26, 2010 at 10:19 am