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Can I have cross on my website which includes religions such as Christianity?
I am building a website that has various topics in it. One category is religion, and it has topics about various religions around the world. I want to create a topic about Christianity and I have to ...
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In an interfaith marriage, would the non-Muslim partner be prohibited from celebrating e.g. Easter, Christmas?
As Muslims we do not celebrate holidays like Easter or Christmas. However if you were involved in an interfaith marriage (with someone from the "people of the book"), would the other person be ...
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Are there any tenets of Sunni Islam that started out as a revolutionary idea that were resisted by the majority Sunni consensus at the time?
This Q came up as I learnt about Sheikh Mustapha Rashid’s fatwa about hijab not being compulsory going against current Sunni consensus. Since Ijma is a core Sunni principle, I wonder if there is any ...
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Advice / Cure for boredom in Islam
I suffer from depression and have been on medication for many years which works and this may be a factor.
However I go through phases of being bored. Same routine, same daily predictable job, etc. ...
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When is the time of response mentioned in this following hadith?
I have read a hadith that says, every night there is an hour when no Muslim asks Allah of anything and he will be given that. Can anyone tell me is there any record or authentic opinion about when ...
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Do I need any special approach to make a web service Sharia compliant?
Generally, if there are any guidelines to make a web application (available through web browser - like this page) Sharia-compliant?
Note that many of my customers are not muslims.
In my particular ...
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What are the rules for interacting with an individual that does not practice Islam?
I live in a Smallish city, we still voted for Trump, but we have a mosque, and a few black people, and people in smaller towns are afraid to move here because they think they'll get shot in a week. We'...
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Is working in central bank haram which does not provide loans nor keep deposits based on interest?
So far I know that working in riba-based bank is not allowed. But for central bank, which does not provide loans nor keep deposits based on interest, will it be permissible to work on the central bank ...
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Will sadaqah continue to be considered a good deed if it's used to fund an ongoing project?
Suppose someone gives sadaqah jariya (ongoing charity) like for a free education program building. This building is going to be built in the next 2 years.
But anyone can give sadaqah for ...
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Is it common among Sufis to not feel obligated to pray, drink wine, etc.?
From On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam (Faysal Al-Tafriqa Bayn Al-Islam wal Zandaqa) by Al-Ghazali (translation: pdf) writes:
Included among such matters would be the claims of ...
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Who can be a chaperone when talking to a potential woman?
I would like to know who can be a chaperone when you want to get to know a potential woman? For the purposes of marriage of course.
Can a friend of the woman be a sufficient chaperone?
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How is tazqiya al qalb related to talqiyya al siir?
Salam alaykum.
I understand that the qalb is purified to reflect and that talqiyya al siir is a stage after that but how exactly is the process?
I read somewhere it's the remembrance of ALLAH ...
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How should I offer Friday prayers if the mosque is far way from where I live?
I have migrated from my home city, to join an engineering college as an undergrade which is a days travel from my hometown. The question I want to ask is that the college is located in an area where ...
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Status of al Waqidi as a narrator?
I know there is a lot of criticism for Al-Waqidi by the scholars and muhadditheen (scholars of hadith). They accuse him of being a liar and unreliable. But some scholars say he is trustworthy, such as ...
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If the Bani Hashim were so weak by Muhammad's day, how could Abu Talib protect him from the powerful Quraysh?
I asked a related question earlier, trying to understand the sudden, catastrophic decline of the Bani Hashim from the high point during the early adulthood of Abd al-Muttalib to the low point at the ...
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