Know Your Deen

Islamic QA for North America

November 3, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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dating, woman, treatment of woman

Q: Salam,
My cousin is doing a documentary, and the classmates shes working with are wondering 1) why women in islam cant date. Why is that?
2) And what does the quran say about how a man should treat his women?
3) How highly are women respected in islam?

Time: Tuesday October 12, 2010 at 6:56 pm Continue Reading →

November 2, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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The trend of our youth seems scary. Some seem to be on a different buzz

Q: I am a muslim woman and wanting to marry muslim man but my parents wont allow that marriage. I am crazy in love with him and I want to be with him even though I dont want to disappoint my parents. 1) Can I marry him without their permission? 2)oh yea n i have commit zina with him n 3) i want to repent to allah n just get married to be safe from that..

Time: Tuesday October 12, 2010 at 4:23 am Continue Reading →

November 1, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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can i sell my ‘Qurban’ meat?

Q: i have a follow up. Last year in our town a brother was selling quraban meat saying it was barakah. Can one sell qurbani meat? People were buying it. Hew would go cut the sheep and piece it off and people purchased it. Permissible? Also meat stores cut the animal days in advance and sell it to customers on the day of eid saying it is Qurban. Permisible? Continue Reading →

October 30, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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its all a continual process

Q: Asslam-o-Alikum! i want to know, if some one said Taubah for his Gunnah-i-kabira and has stay away from that  only for months. After that he commits again that gunnah,  what are obligations for him? what should he do know? how can he come out from that hell? how can he purify his soul and his body?

Time: Thursday October 7, 2010 at 12:10 am Continue Reading →

October 30, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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student matters do matter, even if made to feel ‘stupid’

Q:
Assalama Alaykum Imam,
How do you deal with teachers that underestimate you because of  your gender and religion. As a student, you go to your teachers to get help for material you dont understand in lecture, but it does not help when the teacher gives you that look…the look of underestimation. Instead of helping you they just make you feel stupid  and at the end you just feel really low and start questioning your intelligence. You really hate going to them to ask help because they create an evironment that intimatate you and you dont even comprehend what they are saying because of the environment they create.
How can I go to my teachers and get the information i need without letting the factors of underestimation, intimidation come in the way?
Jazkallahu Kahir for your time and your advice!

Time: Tuesday October 5, 2010 at 7:18 pm Continue Reading →

October 28, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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good dream

Q: salam Brother Imaam,

i have seem dream one week ago, and since i have seen that dream, i feel my heart became humble. My dream was ,,,,, that I am in medina where I am waiting for Prophet Muhammed pbuh. and i was standing out side of the house. i can still remember the feeling i felt when Prophet Muhammed came i started to walk with him, while we were walking moon was walking with us. and then we reached to one place where some thing wanted to hurt us(that thing was not clear) ,and then a light came out of sky and that thing was destroyed.

I dont know Imaam after that dream, my wish became more to meet Prophet Muhammed pbuh him . I do read durood.

Bother Imaam i pray that u get reward for every single act and good deeds you do in your life. May Allah shower his blessings on you and all ummah of Prophet Muhammed .

salam

Time: Friday July 23, 2010 at 10:15 pm Continue Reading →

October 27, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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this answer is from you — the public

Q: I only speak english and i am a new muslim of a few months.

but since then i am very discourged. i’ve seen hypocrasy and 2 faces which in some since can be one in the same. however i am from a very christian background and that is the only thing right now i can draw reference from i am still learning the quran so please forgive me. my question is this which master? do people see which master they serve? when we let our anger,gossip(2 faces),hypocrite saying one thing and doing another, rule our lives do we see that is the wrong master? or are they just playing games with allah? thinking well i pray 5 times a day so allah will forgive me. but, do they really know that allah sees their hearts and does not forgive the revolving sin? in the bible there is 10 commandments given to moses and i am sure the quran has that reference too but i have not read that part yet but when we gossip about someone and ruin their character that is spiritually killing them and that is against allah right? love, peace, patients, kindness is allah not hate, jealously, rage. As Allah taught us through the prophets right?

Time: Thursday August 26, 2010 at 6:46 am Continue Reading →