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Naseeha - Advice

23rd October 2025

How to deal with overwhelming wiswas and ocd

I suffer a lot from waswas. Probably say the shahadah about 20 times a day due to waswas. I take about 10 minutes to do fardh wudhu because places like the start of jawline does not get wet. I laugh for no reason in salaah. I pass wind. I get bad thoughts. Salaah and wudhu are difficult for me. Before i started studying fiqh ,salaah was a source of peace but when i learnt stuff i realised that i w.....

Hajj / Umrah

23rd October 2025

Excusable amount of impurity while in the state of ihram

Salaam, I have a question regarding the excusable amount of impurity found on Ihram clothing. Is it the same as when not in the state of Ihram (approximately 5-6 cm in diameter)? For example, if someone was asleep in the state of Ihram and after waking up discovered a small amount of pre-ejaculatory fluid was emitted, will Tawaf still be valid given the traces of the fluid on the Ihram that .....

Marriage - General

23rd October 2025

Ahmadiya converted to sunni Husband and sunni wife

Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh, I would like to ask about the validity of my marriage (nikah). My husband and his entire family were previously members of the Ahmadi (Qadiani) community. About 10 years ago, my husband and his immediate family formally accepted Sunni Islam. They signed the official declaration in Pakistan, confirming their belief in the finality of the Propheth.....

Sacrifice and Aqeeqa

23rd October 2025

Name for a baby girl

Assalamu alikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu Is the name aleeza appropriate for a baby girls it is a Hebrew origin and means joyful. Jazakallahu Khair......

Tafseer, Hadeeth, Du'aa

18th October 2025

Sunnah to recite surah yaseen in day and night

Assalamualaikum It is reported … that Ibn 'Abbas said: "Whomsoever recites Ya-Sin in the morning will be given an easy day until the evening, and whomsoever recites it in the beginning of the night will be given an easy night until the morning." [Musnad al-Darimi no. 3462] This narration according to many shuyukh is hasan, the only narrator some people disagree upon is shahr bin hawshab .....

Salaah - Tahara

14th October 2025

Impurity transfer

Assalam O Alaykum, I have a question regarding impurity transfer. Is there any lenient ruling for someone struggling with OCD like symptoms about impurity not transferring if no traces present? I know hanafi's say this but they also say it transfers when dripping wet and my hands that were impure and dripping wet have contaminated so many places and dishes which now makes me believe i am eating im.....

Women

17th October 2025

Which job is better for a doctor who is a doctor one job is where she has to shave her head as a req

Which job can a women dentist do - one job is in a ladies only military academy where she requires to shave her head and the other job is in a normal hospital but she has to see male patients also . Can a woman perform umrah if her head is shaved.....

Naseeha - Advice

17th October 2025

Confusion regarding fiqh - distant from deen

Question: Assalamualaikum, a little background first :im almost 18 year old struggling to be a good Muslim, I find deen very hard I've also been diagnosed with OCD waswas affect me but alhumdullilah I'm getting better my question is about fiqh , my parents raised me in hanafi fiqh and I mostly do hanafi stuff but when I was young and through Internet I found other rulings on some matters and.....

Salaah - Tahara

17th October 2025

Do you have to make up salah if you didn't know you had to do ghusl?

I didn't know you had to do ghusl after your menses, so for about 5 years, I had just been praying without performing any ghusl after my period. Does this make all my prayers for the last 5 years invalid? If so, do I have to make them up? Thank you......

Salaah - Tahara

14th October 2025

Dealing with frequent urine drops

After using the restroom, to be certain no urine remains, I try to, forgive me, pinch the tip of my penis 3 times to expel remaining urine. But even after doing that, i find myself sitting in the restroom for almost 2 hours repeating this process and still notice tiny amounts of urine. I’ve been getting exhausted from doing this all the time. Is there something I can do to ensure my clothing re.....

Marriage - General

7th October 2025

Urgent question regarding conditional divorce

Asalamualaikum hope you are well may Allah reward you, I’ve been told by a mufti in the shariah council in England that if a man hypothetically was to say “if you don’t do this you are “ and if he says the word to his wife if he did it to make her do something or a threat it doesn’t count, just double checking according to hanafi lmk please? Also according to hanafi what if they.....

Marriage - General

3rd October 2025

Urgent- the questions is about divorce

Asalamualaikum hope you are well , My wife has been abusing me for months, yesterday i said to her “you’re” and then the word. I then took her back saying “I take you back as my wife” . I wanna know what’s the process, she was on her period or just about to finish, this is the only time it has or ever happened, do I need to say specific wording or is what I said sufficient and.....

Marriage - General

3rd October 2025

Urgent question regarding non existent divorce

Asalamualaikum , hope you are well and may Allah reward you, there’s a few scenarios I want you to put me in peace in writing, I already went on a molvi for shariah council but I just wanted to clarify on writing so im mentioning the full story, here are a few things said:I had no intention for any I just wanted to talk to her or just wanted her to listen to me 1. I said to my wife: “Come.....

Marriage - Issues

3rd October 2025

Extreme waswasah Urgent question regarding non existent divorce

Asalamualaikum , hope you are well and may Allah reward you, I’ve really needed your help and have been suffering for so long I’m sorry for being long but if you can please help me out inshallah 1-My main question regarding the conditional is I follow the view of ibn taymiyyah The fact that he says it’s based on intention if it’s to encourage and threaten then it doesn’t count as d.....

Marriage - Issues

3rd October 2025

Overly Possessive wife raising suspicions in relationship

Assalam o alaikum WRB, I am 43 yr & my wife is 39 yrs old. We are into 16 yrs of marriage with 2 boys. My wife is suspicious about my actions before any women including my Sister in laws like noticing whether I am looking at them. I limit my conversation with them during family get togethers. When we are outside, She is watching on me whether I am looking at other women & starts accusing me that.....

Marriage - Issues

13th September 2025

Wife is unresponsive for intimacy

My age is 28 and our marriage has almost completed 6 years, alhamdulillah. My wife is almost the same age as me and we have 2 children, alhamdulillah. We both, alhamdulillah, try to practice the Deen as much as possible. The problem is, from just a few months after our marriage, my wife began to show complete reluctance in responding physically, and gradually it became very severe. I, physically,.....

Marriage - General

4th September 2025

Is my marriage of 16 yeras eligit in the sight of the Almighty?

Salamu Alaikum Warahmetullahi, I would deeply appreciate any recommendation about my family's situation. I became a practicing muslim 3 years ago at the age 39, my husband of 16 years who believes in One God and knows few Surah like Al-Fatihah is not a practising muslim. We have three children together, 13, 9 and 5. Recently I have become distressed due to the reason that some imams, with all o.....

Marriage - General

3rd September 2025

Question about Nikah

Asalam u alikom warahmatullah wabarakatu I have a question. Can I marry my mom's cousin who's stepmom breastfed my mom but not his biological mom in that time we both were not born. Thank you and have a great day.....

Imaan / 'Aqaaid

2nd September 2025

Doubts about kufr

Salaam I am someone who is very scared about committing kufr/shirk. Sometimes i think I have done so but can't remember either what exactly I said/did, the intention behind such an action, or whether such an action constituted shirk/kufr. Theoretically, if I have committed kufr but not completely sure, and I ignore it so I don't spiral (because I have had bad OCD episodes in the past), would I b.....

Imaan / 'Aqaaid

2nd September 2025

Nike and kufr

Salaam Is there any consensus that wearing nike is kufr considering the following: a) the name is based of a false goddess b) it is believed that the swoosh is based off the wing of the false goddess c) in recent years nike produced a product that read "goddess of victory", I say this because some say the connotations of kufr have disappeared. I ask because although it is easy for me to avo.....