If a man has to offer salah,how much minimum area of his body should be covered? answer with reference please

The evil God hypothesis posits the existence of, instead of an all-good creator deity, an all-evil creator deity. This is mostly done to point out that a creator being all-good does not need to “logically follow” from being a “maximally great being”. The argument comes from Anselm of Canterbury, who saw the Christian God as a "maximally great being" with all “great making” positive attributes "maxed out". Key examples include omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and of course necessary existence. The argument have a lot of potential problems, one being what “great” means and why it would be “better (greater) for things to exist in reality than not”. In this context, the evil God hypothesis (EGH) is usually raised: the existence of a maximally great being whose moral character is maximally evil rather than maximally good. The EGH states that morally relevant great-making property is instantiated at its “worst” (maximally malevolent) level rather than its “best” (maximally benevolent) level. It is powerful because it forces symmetric thinking, nothing is changed except for the “direction” of maximality. Now, I would admit, the EGH is not without its problems either. Academic criticism usually takes the angle of breaking the symmetry between the EGH and the GGH in some way. For example, some have argued that abundant suffering would be better evidence for an evil creator (thus breaking the symmetry, and making the EGH less of a challenge). Others have pointed out that humans have moral intuitions that generally treat goodness as *prima facie* value. When I have brought up the argument to Christians, many believers have a hard time even entertaining the idea of God being evil. In many denominations, God being all-good is a fundamental dogma to the faith. Maximal or infinite goodness is built into the core theological picture of God in virtually every major Christian tradition. In such a framework, any evil per dogma cannot be the fault of or due to God. Evil is either solely to blame on humans (and other spiritual beings), or viewed as the lack of the presence of God. Thus, I wonder about how the Islamic response differs from the Christian one. As I understand Islamic theology, Allah is not universally or unconditionally loving to all (as in most Christian theology). Allah’s love is instead related to qualities such as obedience, repentance and justice. There are multiple suras proclaiming that Allah does not love the transgressors (*al-Baqarah* 2:190), the disbelievers (*Ali ʿImrān* 3:32), the wrongdoers (*Ali ʿImrān* 3:57), the deceitful, sinful (*An-Nisāʼ* 4:10) or the corrupt (*al-Māʾidah* 5:64). In this context, **would a Muslim theologian be more sympathetic or more willing to entertain the EGH? Is the Islamic response, in essence, different to a Christian one? Would the EGH approached differently by Muslim thinkers than by Christian theologians?** Does the EGH even make sense in an Islamic framework? I would imagine that differences in how the attributes of God/Allah is conceived and conceptualized between the Christian and Islamic traditions would hypostatize into different approaches. **The question is therefore about how fitting the EGH is in an Islamic framework and how a muslim theologian would respond (in contrast with a Christian theologian).** I must admit that I am not well-versed on the metaphysical and ontological status of Allah (and the divine attributes of Allah), especially not between Islamic denominations. Hence this question.

I suffer from depression and have been on medication for many years which works and this may be a factor. However I go through phases of being bored. Same routine, same daily predictable job, etc. Very predictable. Even in spare time I'm bored. I like to sleep. You may say you should listen to the Qur'an. I do but as I don't know Arabic I don't get the full benefit. Other things like TV, films and music are haraam by the majority of scholars so I can't entertain myself via them. Is there any advice in Islam on this or any practical advice you may have please?

Me and my fiancé are planning on having a nikah soon, but I have been researching the topic and my parents and family are all non-Muslim (I have converted to Islam after meeting my fiancé). But I need a Muslim wali with me when we do the nikah, so I was just wondering what I can do? And how can we have a ceremony after the nikah that my family can attend if they can not come to the nikah because they are not Muslim? I am very confused and I hope you can understand what I am trying to say, I would love for my parents, brothers, uncles and aunties to be there because it is a special day for us.

Dear brother and sisters. I met a girl abroad, who is not a Muslimah. She is willing to accept Islam and I want to do nikkah with her to save myself from committing zina. Nikkah is only for the sake of ALLAH and to save me, my soul from Jahannum. I travel abroad frequently for my business and it is harder to live longer time period without a wife. All of her family is non-muslim and they preach Christianity. Thus, they will never agree and she is even scared to ask her family if she can become a Muslimah and get married to a Muslim man. She will not have a wali from her family for sure. That is almost 100% closer to impossible. I have 2 friends, with a good character and I can arrange an Imam from Masjid to do nikkah with her after she do her Shahadah. I will write the Nikkah conditions on the paper and I will sign, she will sign, 2 Muslim men will sign and Masjid Imam will sign. I will give her mahr at the time of Nikkah. So, the Nikkah will be announced and I pray to ALLAH to forgive if anything is not right and make her halal for me through Nikkah. Our intentions are good and we will do everything possible according to Islam. Please advice my brothers and sisters if I'm doing anything wrong or if I need to do something extra. May ALLAH guide us all and forgive our sins and may ALLAH give reward to those who advice. Thanks

What should we do if we need help of beings other than Allah in necessary situations?

I do printing shirts and clothes. Is it haram for me to print shirts for church groups with pictures of Jesus and all

We know that bilqis accepted Islam after she met prophet suleiman. Do we have information on bilqis continuing as queen after acceptance of Islam? > No people who appoint a woman as their leader will ever prosper.” (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 13/53)

I was raised with the belief there isn't a god, I want to believe but my mind doesn't really let me. Can I still be Muslim/how can I start to truly believe?

So, there's a debate whether cracking is allowed or not since some people argue that it isn't the same as stealing since there's no physical stuff involved. And there's another argument where if the dev is a jerk (such as selling expensive but bad stuff, not granting you to be able to play the game forever, etc) it's ok to crack. So does this affect the law that cracking is steal some form of stealing? Please answer with some of supporting law such as hadith, so i can be more sure

Allah says: > And if you obey most of those upon the earth, they will mislead you from the way of Allāh. They follow not except assumption, and they are not but misjudging. > > [Quran 6:116](https://quran.com/al-anam/116?translations=20) Does it mean that the majority always happen to be wrong? Can it also be used to disregard the opinion of the majority of the scholars (as I've noticed some folks doing so with the verse)? Is it open to interpretation? What is interpretation of the sahaba and the scholars on "most of those upon the earth"?

Can you marry a transgender woman or a woman with a male reproductive organ and if so does anal sex become permissible?

If Jesus (peace be upon him) used the term "Father" figuratively for Allah, then why is it impermissible for Muslims to refer to Allah figuratively as "Father"?

Is sand on witch a dog sits impure? if the sand gets on clothes or hands is it necessary to wash them.

"Can I perform Ghusl for Janaba and Haid together? Alhamdulillah, I didn't do anything haram or masturbation. However, sometimes when I see couples kissing on social media, I feel weird sensations while in period. At the end of my period, I make Niyyah for Ghusl for both Haid and Janaba, just in case something happened without me knowing, Alhamduillah, or maybe something while sleeping. Is one Ghusl enough? Will my Salah be accepted?

I'm ashamed to ask this, but my whole life, because of my acne, I haven't been attracted to girls or wanted to be with a woman. I'm asking this because I've really become disillusioned with women. Is it a sin to marry a beautiful transgender woman?

Does using Microsoft reward system halal?it's like they have a search engine as Microsoft bing (or the name slightly vary)so basically we have to do certain task to earn points and they will give us gift cards.those gift cards can be used in many ways I believe.But can I use them to get a game named Minecraft?(This is not a real life currency,they are like gift cards only possible to use on their products).there could be task where they may tell us to see a ad of bad stuff(tho it is said it's restricted and varies by age).It's basically using that search engine instead of google I believe and they reward you by doing certain task.I will try my be best to avoid the bad stuffs if they really come.So is it permissible?

Is it haram to upload a cartoon girl with a hijab as my profile picture?

I want to know how the Arabic language explains this verse Surah Isra verse 1 "Glory be to the One Who took His servant ˹Muḥammad˺ by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque whose surroundings We have blessed, so that We may show him some of Our signs. Indeed, He alone is the All-Hearing, All-Seeing." Initially Allah swt refers to himself in the third person (glory be to the one who-) and then later refers to himself as We (the royal we in English) which switches to first person and then later addresses himself again in the third person saying "he is the all hearing" , Can anyone who speaks arabic explain this because in English it would be odd. The simplest conclusion would be to assume that in "we may show **him** -" and "indeed **he** is the all hearing" both are referring to same person , can someone explain why this is not the case

It is known that the earth and heavens have already been made in 6 days. The lowest heaven is our observable universe. In Quran 51:47, it is written “We built the universe with ˹great˺ might, and We are certainly expanding ˹it˺.” So my question is that if the heavens and earth have already been made, how is it that it’s still expanding. Same with earth, as it’s already been made how is it still undergoing changes today? Jazakallah Khair