I had a few discussions today regarding Ramadan (as it is ongoing now), and one of them was about the extreme places in the world where the sun does not set, or is up all the time. We found out that this is addressed by adhering to the time of a reference country. But then came the problem of places where the sun almost sets, then further south sets for a short time, and then the night gets longer and longer. Is there a night length that makes the place "follow the local time"? I can hardly imagine this when the night is 10 minutes long, or one hour, but maybe 3 hours could be acceptable. Is this regulated a way or another?

Is purchasing property one knows to be stolen proscribed by sharia? If so, what are the parameters? Does this also apply to financial instruments & virtual property? Things like stocks in companies, equity, & ₿itcoin?

Building off of the answers to this question , what are the requirements for a hadith to be considered "sahih"?

I've noticed the brushes for beard hair (and shaving to apply foam/gel if you decided to shave!) is made from boar (pig) hair. Can we use these?

I've noticed I've been saying "DAAleen" instead of "Daalleen" even though I know there was a shaddah but I don't end up pronouncing it well enough. Can anyone who speaks arabic confirm if it changes the meaning or not? I tried to see with google translate, removing the shaddah doesn't change it although putting spaces between Daa and leen does (though I'm not sure I pause enough for it to sound like two different words).

Asalaam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, About a month ago my wife requested a talaq from me due to pressure from her family and a month before that they instructed her to fetch her belongings from me and move in with them. After 2 months of no contact we started communicating and had intercourse after her visiting me. In the visit i could see that she still loved me and was still inlove with me as we discussed the reasons she left me. On another occasion due to the passing of a close friend I collected her and attended his funeral. Thereafter we had intercourse again, but with intention to reconcile. I have arranged 2 witnesses to draw up a document to revoke the talaq and take her back as myself and my wife agreed to reconcilation and I would rather take her back in all ways possible as I am afraid her family would try and find ways to keep us apart. **Is intercourse a way of taking her back?** Once I have taken her back with witnesses can her parents keep her away from me? She will not be present but she is aware of me revoking the talaaq, is that permissible? Shukraan in advance for your assistance.

Ibn Battal said: The scholars unanimously agreed that it is permissible for fathers to marry off their young daughters, even if they are still in the cradle - Umdat Al-Qari Sharh Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 14, Page 21 

Certain websites claim that in a Hadith it is mentioned the following: > Prophet Muhammad declared, "There was a prophet of God in India who is dark in color and his name was Kahan." (History of Hamadan Dailmi Chapter Al-Kaaf) Looking at the above verse, it is highly likely that this is referring to Lord Krishna who is need called ''Kahan'' and is dark-complexioned. The Quran does mention that there have been 1,24,000 prophets send by Allah but there are also high chances of this Hadith being interpolated just like many Puranas are in Hinduism (especially the Bhavishya Purana which seems to mention Prophet Muhammad and many Biblical characters). So is the above Hadith a ''sahih'' Hadith or is it also interpolated like the Bhavishya Purana in Hinduism?

If a Muslim lives in a non-Muslim country, are the non-Muslims there considered non-harbi because the Muslim, by residing there, has entered into an agreement with them?

The hadith (Sahih al-Bukhari ): > The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "When the people of Paradise will enter Paradise and the people of Hell will go to Hell, Allah will order those who have had faith equal to the weight of a grain of mustard seed to be taken out from Hell. So they will be taken out but (by then) they will be blackened (charred). Then they will be put in the river of Haya' (rain) or Hayat (life) (the Narrator is in doubt as to which is the right term), and they will revive like a grain that grows near the bank of a flood channel. Don't you see that it comes out yellow and twisted" I kinda dont understand it what is Allah describing?

I can't stop thinking about that question since i first has been asked it from an atheist. I am a Muslim and I believe none has a 100% belief in Allah s.w.t even me, and that is because the logical questions that come to our minds from time to time. Then I decided to try atheists' questions, and see their answers or try to answer it in order to clear all these questions to me to reach 100% certainty in Allah.

In the commentary on his Magnum Opus translation of the Quran, A. Yusuf 'Ali relays Imam Gazali's cosmography of divine Light: > Among the beauties of the Qur’an, not the least is that which sends its mystic interpreters into ecstasies of spiritual delight. While its plain meaning contains noble precepts of ordinary conduct, its mystic passages reveal spiritual mysteries which can only be expressed by the phrase "Light upon Light!" (24. 35). It is an endless chain of illumination in which ordinary knowledge dissolves as if it were ignorance . . . Jibril says: "Kana baini wa bainahu sab'una alfa hijabin min nurin: Between me and Him are seventy thousand veils of Light." > > The highest place among the mystic interpreters should be assigned to Imam Gazali, whose Mishkat-ul-Anwar deals with the verse of Light (24. 35), the contrasted verse of Darkness (24. 40), and the saying of the holy Prophet quoted by him from the Hadith: "God has Seventy Thousand Veils of Light and Darkness: were He to withdraw their curtain, then would the splendours of His Aspect (or Countenance, or Face, Wajh) surely consume everyone who apprehended Him with his sight." The Prophet ﷺ is described as: > وَدَاعِيًا إِلَى ٱللَّهِ بِإِذْنِهِۦ وَسِرَاجًۭا مُّنِيرًۭا **a Beacon Light a caller to ˹the Way of˺ Allah by His command, an illuminating Lamp:** >[T]he Eye has many defects. It is only the perceiving faculty or Intelligence which is properly entitled to the name of Light considered as a source of enlightenment. > >The verses of the Qur’an, in relation to Intelligence, have the value of sunlight in relation to eyesight. The Qur’an is therefore spoken of as the Light: "For We have sent unto you a light (that is) manifest": 4. 174. > >Thus, the physical eye sees by the sun; the spiritual eye sees by Revelation (the Qur’an). There is a world invisible, with a Light of its own, quite different from the world visible, with its own physical light. The former, the spiritual world, is far above the physical world: not in space, for there is no question of space, but in grade. Yet the World of Sense is a type of the World of the Realm Celestial. All the Prophets are Lamps, and so are the Learned: but the difference between them is incalculable. If the Prophet of God is a Lamp Illuminant, that from which the Lamp is itself lit may fitly be symbolized by Fire. It is the Spirits Celestial, the angels, considered as the kindling-source of the Lamps Terrestrial, that can be compared alone with Fire:🔥 . These Lamps Celestial have their own grades and orders, and the highest is the one nearest to the Ultimate Light. > > That Ultimate Light is the final Fountainhead, Who is Light in and by Himself, not a light kindled from other lights. The term 'light' as applied to any other than this primary Light is purely metaphorical. But these metaphorical lights have various gradations. So are there gradations in their opposites. There is no darkness so intense as the darkness of Not-being. A dark thing is called "dark" simply because it cannot appear to anyone's vision; it never comes to exist for sight, though it may exist in itself. But that which has no existence for others nor for itself is assuredly the very extreme of darkness. In contrast with it is Being, which is therefore Light. Thus God Most High is the only Reality, as He is the only Light. This ascending and descending Light of lights housed in ascending and descending realms sounds like a nested virtualization of photonics. Has anyone described an isomorphism from virtual photonics which makes clear the true nature of Light?

I have a close relative who on the slightest pretext swipes the credit card to make payments of purchases or medical bills. Due to which this family is constantly under debt. Can we relatives help them clear their debts by giving them zakat?

Is there 'ijma that once a (human) soul is created, it exists forever after that point and is never destroyed? If so, which scholars are known to have claimed 'ijma on this issue? Further, is there any evidence in the Quran or Sunnah that indicate a soul will never be extinguished after its creation?

Qur'an 23:6 has varying translations (see Islam Awakened ): > إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ > > **except with their wives**, and what their right hands possess for then they are free from blame, -- Wahiduddin Khan > > **except with their spouses** and whomever their right hands may control, since then they are free from blame. -- T.B.Irving In the first case, the ayah seems directed at men since it refers to "wives". But in the second case, it refers to "spouses". I put أَزْوَاجِهِمْ into Google Translate , and it says "their husbands", but that's not listed among the Islam Awakened translations. **Question**: Does Qur'an 23:6 talk about "wives" or "spouses" in إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ?

Assalam 'alaikum Consider that my flight takes off at 6:00 PM which is normal time for Jama'at of Asr (عصر) prayer in my city these days, and the flight is supposed to take 4 hours. This means that at the time of Maghrib (مغرب) prayer I'll be on board. So, how can I pray while in an airplane? It is a moving thing. Also, according to which time would I pray? According to my city's time or the one my plane is flying over at that time?

I’ve been with my husband for 4 years and we have a 3 year old daughter together. I reverted to Islam last year, and my husband has never had a problem with it and continues encouraging me to continue praying and making dua. We’re both from catholic backgrounds but we were never really religious like that. My husband is not Muslim (inshallah one day he will be) he’s always been our provider and #1 support. Am I expected to leave him because he is not Muslim? I can’t find an answer anywhere for this situation.

This question is related to a very specific scenario for two people who wish to get married but cannot and need advice on certain paths. Context: I met this person over a year ago and we simply talked and discussed things professionally and would debate about islam, life and shared interests, everything seemed normal and there were no voice chats, sharing pictures or anything restricted within islam. We would just talk normally and discuss things, now as we continued talking we discovered very very specific and unusual statistical anomalies, such as specific coincidences, very similar backgrounds, appearing on text at the same time, doing the same thing, having similar life experiences, shared interests and many many anomalies that were too specific and perfectly timed to be a coincidence, now we started noticing this in the 2nd to 4th month and starting asking question on why they happened, again there was no attraction or any sort of discussion on being together or anything of that sort, then we decided we’d ask Allah and we prayed and wait for our exams to be over to properly assess the situation, as we moved on we started trying different ways to find answers. We’d ask some people or we would search on fatwas online on such scenarios or would as AI engines any literally every method we could think of, we came to a conclusion that we either are meant to achieve something together and learn a lesson or maybe Allah is guiding us together to a path much greater and to get married. So we decided that through istikhara we should look at a path to get married, this was a round to 7th or 8th month we came to the conclusion because the coincidence and anomalies were repeating and continuing to repeat so we decided to come to the that conclusion, we got very close through that period and would discuss about life and how we’d manage everything and confirmed if we were even compatible and could decide to be together, but the underlying issue itself was that neither of us could initiate a marriage proposal because both our parents are tight knit and cultured and would most definitely reject the idea, we decided on waiting but it turns out it would be very difficult as she is moving far far away and the waiting would exceed nearly 5-6 years if we waited out with our parents, and considering the rising difficulties and uncertainties the world brings it seems the more we wait the more difficult our situation is getting, so we came up with a three paths, We either wait the whole way risking that we distance completely and may not even have the chance due to the fact she has moved away, we wait till were both of legal age which is in a year and ask our parents, but neither of us would be financially stable enough to deal with that and our parents would most definitely say no due to cultural and societal pressures and talking to them would result in them isolating us which would again make us distance and miserable, the other path is that we wanted to get it done in secret and then legal in terms of government law with our parents but the issue is we are not sure whether that is islamically allowed or not and if the breaking morality by deceiving our parents would be allowed. Personally, her presence in my life has brought positive changes in, she has played a pivotal role in me changing to become a better person not just for myself but with my connection with Allah and Islam, I wish to be with her and I feel completely lost and alone without her as i find her as somebody to rely on after Allah and I cant trust anybody else due to personal reasons i cannot disclose. We're loyal to one another and we have never considered minor Zina either, we have had interactions but brief and not in any way inappropriate, Now, because of Ramadan, we decided to distance too and not talk at all to avoid ghafla and any sort of Haram, we're not in any sort of a relationship but just love each other and genuinely feel miserable without one another and cannot go without talking to one another however, we did not want to give way to any sort of Haram so we minimized talking and remain distant and professional.We help one another with studying and school, we give one another advice and act as counselors, we've never once argued, and our bond is very professional and healthy. Thank you for having the patience to read all this, Question: With the option we have all of them except one requires us to distance and distancing is extremely difficult even if we talk professionally it would just end up slowly turning back to the usual way we talk and we found out that the way we are talking and pursuing each other is considered not allowed in Islam but the circumstances are extremely difficult and the odds are stacked against us and it’d be way easier and way more motivating and generally less miserable to be able to talk freely because we rely on each other for support, care and love as our families and community are not as supportive. Which of the options should we choose and if not either of them what would you advise us to do?

Is it Fard on a 13 year old to fast in Ramadan? Asking for information

Assalam o alaikum. I went to washroom to take bath. During changing clothes, my bladder felt pressure and small amount of urine came out. Then I emptied my whole bladder. Unfortunately, the urine did not pass down the drain as it was choked. Furthermore, more water came from another washroom and the water was standing in the washroom with the urine mixed. What should I do now? My slippers also came in contact with them and I travelled to my room in them. Furthermore, students bathe here and then go to Masjid. I'm very worried. What shoul I do?