muftisays problem

Wa Alaykum Salam,

No offence taken brother and all your points are valid except for the points which you didn't have information about.

Re: Complicated Inheritance.

Before Mufti Saifur Rahman answered it, he phoned me to tell me to return the contributed amount in full. I also sent the questioner an email but did not receive a reply. If the questioner was you, please let me know via PM so I can forward the email to you again.

Re: Contribution:
Notice from Q&A page:

URGENT: New terms of service - Ramadhan 1430 - September 2009

Muftisays Q&A has now been pending for almost 2 years. Over a thousand (1000) questions have been answered since and attended to. However, the backlog is still fairly large.

In order to resume the service from the countless requests, we have upgraded the Q&A section with better functionality, look and features. The Q&A service along with the other services we bring you is not cheap and has sometimes become next to impossible. We have however resumed the most important service, Q&A, with the following conditions:

1. All previous questions will be attended to only if requested from the original questioner.
2. All previous questions will only be attended to if there are no new questions in the new system.
3. All new questions will require the questioner to pay a contribution towards the services for the valuable time of the Ulamaa.
   • It is vital to note here that the Ulamaa have never requested a payment for their work.
   • It is our duty to contribute towards their time so they can provide more for us.
   • Many Ulamaa are stuck with work which does not utilise their potential because there are impossible living costs in the UK.
   • This way, we will only receive serious questions. Our contribution requirement is less than a meal you would spend without a second thought at an HMC certified Dixy Fried Chicken.
   • No questions will be visible to the Ulamaa or on the site until a contribution is made. This will save our server resources with unwanted and repeated questions not filling our database.
4. There are 3 types of contributions:
   1. Standard Contribution: £2
      • Your question is treated as normal and answered in a normal time frame.
   2. Urgent Contribution: £5
      • Your question will be treated as urgent and no standard question will be visible to us unless the urgent questions are answered first
   3. The 'I appreciate this service' Contribution: Anything more than Urgent Contribution
      • Your question will be the same as Urgent except that you will have donated a larger amount for the pleasure of Allah.
5. If a contribution is not made within 24 hours of receiving the question, your question will automatically be deleted to keep the Ulamaa Zone clean and easy to manage.

Update: We have already received over 40 questions in one day of relaunching the Q&A. Unfortunately, most are duplicates and without contributions. This takes server resources.

Now please ask yourself, is £2 really too much? If a person sent me an email to say they cannot afford £2, I would not deny them an opportunity to ask a question.

We currently have only one qualified scholar answering questions.

If the contribution is not acceptable, the member always has an option to use an offline method of seeking the scholar to ask their question in person or pass the question via a brother (if it's a sister asking). The scholars will not ask you for £2 in this case.