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Islamic QA for North America

June 2, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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‘separate meeting for sisters and brothers’

Q: assalaamualaikum

We recently had a meeting in MSA and A few people suggested that we should have separate meeting for sisters and brothers. We would like to know what’s islamic ruling for meeting where both genders are present to discuss how to raise awareness about Islam on campus and how to serve Muslim students on campus and muslim community in state of Utah. Is this allowed or Not?                   Time: Thursday May 13, 2010 at 10:10 pm Continue Reading →

May 31, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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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) Continue Reading →

May 30, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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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? Continue Reading →

May 29, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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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 Continue Reading →

May 28, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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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 Continue Reading →

May 27, 2010
by Ml. Muhammed Shoayb
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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