Miscellaneous

Beating some one is allowed in Islam? Someone for no reason
at all? Out of hate or outrage. Especially in a cementry.

Assalamu Alaikum,

What is the hukum of conveying salaam to someone whilst eating? is it makrooh, permissible...etc?

Asalamoalykum. Please could you elaborate on the clothes worn by our beloved Prophet SAW. Also is it haraam to wear western clothes. Jazakallah.

Are Alina and Jiah Islamic Names and what they mean.

Assalamu Alikum,

Respected Mufti Saheb,

I would like to know (as a male) would it be permissible for me to listen to the Tafseer of Aminah Elahi on Audio, which can be downloaded from aswat-al-isalm.com. Secondly is her tafseer reliable.

Jazzak Allah

Assalam aleykum. Are islamic cartoons that contain music alowed? My husband says that the benefit outweights the harm but i can't help feeling that i'm poisoning them.

Assalam Walaikum,

My question is can we do Salam to our Ladies relative on street or at market place,because I heard we cannot do Salam at market or on street to Ladies. Is it right if so please reply.

Allah Hafiz.

Shaikh Anwar.

We like to name our daughter MAANHA. We found the meaning of the name is �gift from Allah�. I was wondering whether the spelling and meaning are correct.

Recently I joined classes for learning Arabic, at
which my arabic teacher said that my name i.e.
AbdulMunaf is not a good name. As Munaf was the
name of pre-islamic idol the meaning of name is
Slave of Munaf an idol, and thus must be changed.

I searched internet to find the meaning and found:
1) Munaf/Manaf was indeed name of an Idol.
2) AbdulMunaf was name of great gradfather of our
beloved Prophet Muhammad(P.B.U.H.).
3) Meaning of Munaf is "the Exalted/ the high",
and who is more high than Allah SWT. So this may
mean Slave of Allah.

So now I am bit confused.

Now my questions are:
1) Should I change my name?
2) If I change my name, should I have to change
is officialy i.e. change it in all my degrees,
documents etc?

Allah Hafiz

Salam,

When a person is on a state where because of the amount of questions being posed to them their iman is becoming weak what should they do? I am becoming alim and the amounts of questions being posed to me now are many. I cannot answer many of the q's and feel very bad for this. This is also putting me off becoming Alim, as i think i do not have sufficient knowledge for this position. I do not think i am worthy of the status or responsisbility. My iman is becoming weak as i feel i do not know anything. This is quite worrying as i am only months away from graduating. Should i just leave?

how to contraol hiar fall acording to islamic educations ...............

salmz..u no my mum she says hijaab is wajib but i wana find out propely because somepeople says its not

Assalamu-Alaykum

Respected Mufti Saheb,

Can you please let me know whether the following muslim girls and boy names are permissable in Islam.

Jazakullah-Khair

Alina (Alena)
Malayeka (Malaika/Malaikah),
Maariah
Safoorah
Zayan

Do you recommend/approve the ECC as a an education institution? It is the only distant learning programme in UK that provides Islamic courses. their details can be found here:

http://www.ebrahimcollege.org.uk/intro.htm

Assalamu alikum my dear respected ulama,

Alhamdulillah I have many leaflets and papers which have the name of Allah and his beloved prophets name on it. I have other leaflets with quranic ayats on them. I would like to know if permissable how to dispose of these in the corrrect manner. Now adays we hav many calenders and weddings cards with either Allahs name or the quranic verses on them.

Your time and patience is truley appreciated.

May allah reward you highley for your great efforts. Please remeber me in your duas which i am in great need of.

Assalamualaikum, please can you recommend a good islamic book from which a sister can read when she is pregnant ie duas wazifahs etc etc.

Jazakallah Khairun

salaam,

for men to keep zulfa is a sunnah of prophet Muhammad (s.a.w), but how long is the hair meant to be. some people say its up to the shoulders and some say up to the ear lobes.

my second question is, i am aware that there is a way that prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) applied oil to his hair. please could you tell me the sunnah of how to apply it.

jazakallah.

Asallamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah.
Dear brother.. I sincerely wish for your help on a problem that has been going on since my husband left us...myself and our two baby girls to go back to his own country in the Gambia nearly 7 months ago. I am a white, English revert of 5 years alhumdullilah. We have been married for 5 years and the marriage was problematic, violent at times, full of jealousy on both parties and I went through a period of depression, low self esteem and lack of confidence. I feel that we didn't commicate properly, for instance, there were many times that my husband offended me, but rather that sort the problem out, he would get into a rage which was very physical.....to cut a long story short, after a few years, I started really rebelling and started behaving terribly. I felt he made me jealous, sometimes with my girlfreinds, sometimes he would bring womans phone numbers home from his University, I felt he was very charming toward the opposite sex, he had letters from previous girlfriends, and photo's of them and when I asked him to destroy them, I got a punch on the back of the neck, I felt from that moment on I was not a priority. So I got revenge. I started being extreamily nice to his friends when they visited, I purposefully got mens phone numbers from my work....All to get his reaction...to see if he would also get jealous because he used to tell me I need a doctor because I'm sick in the head. The latest problem was in January...he asked me to take out a loan for �15,000 so we could all go back to his country to live, he said that I shouldn't worry about paying the loan back as many people do this, it would just mean that I would be able to go back to the UK for 5 years...stupidly enough, I agreed...I thought the Islam was good in his country. All three of us went to the Gambia, but I had to come home and sort finances out here in the UK.... I told my freind what I had done...she told me that I can't just take a loan and not pay it back, this would be fraud. I immeadiately called my husband in the Gambia and I aksed him to come home and help me pay off the loan, he said that he didn't want to come back here because he dosn't like the UK...he then asked if he could have a second wife. Due to the circumstances...I had to divorce him as I thought this was a terrible thing to do, asking me to take a loan and the him starting a new life with a new wife in his own country...meanwhile, I couldn't work after this because I had to look after my daughters so I had to go on benefits, therfore, I couldn't pay the loan back at all.

The main problem here...Where I really need you help...I can't get rid of this gulit brother...for the things I did to him...i.e making him jealous on purpose and rebelling. Sometimes I cannot sleep out of fear because I worry this will be sorted out in Allah's court. My heart is crying out of fear as I type this. I don't know what excuse I will give Allah. Since I have been on my own, I have been gaining so much knowledge...there are things I know now, but didn't know then. I really do feel very regretful brother..that I was a terrible wife and maybe this is why he left us. I cannot even sleep at night because my mind keeps replaying all the bad thigs I did to him. Please forgive me...this is long winded but please advise me..Jahannam is full of woman mainly and I fear I'm one of them....But I'm desparate to be one of the lucky 7 to be under the shade of Allah's throne.
Jazakallah....kindly for your Patience in reading this
Asallamu Alakikum wa Rahmatullah brother...

Asalamo Alikum

Insha Allah we are planning to name our unborn "Muhammad Utbah" after sahabi "Utbah Ibn Ghazwan RA". Please advise if "Utbah" is a proper name for muslim boy? jazak Allah.

When a new born baby is born, which adhan is given? I.e, the Adhan for zuhr-isha, or the Fajr Adhan. Someone told me it should be Fajr adhan, however he couldnt recall where he read it.