Among one of many testimonials of ex-Muslims, WikiIslam (reposting from FaithFreedom) lists how Andrea, a US convert to Islam, was prompted to leave Islam by a list of demands made by her husband. This is the list: > Here are my demands and you will follow them not because I demand them, but because Allah demands them. And Allah demands submission to the husband. > > 1. You will wear hijab at all times. > 2. You will not befriend Muslim girls without hijab, and you will absolutely not befriend Kafirs. > 3. When a male friend or colleague of mine enters the house, you will go to a separate room, and stay there until he leaves, unless you serve him food or drink. > 4. You will not work, even if I am not able to financially support you, you will be around Kafirs at work, and they will look at you lustfully and tempt you to do wrong. Women are weak, you are weak, and you will probably end up harassed by a Kafir. > 5. If you leave, even with friends, tell me where you are at all times, and whatever you buy you must show me once you return home > 6. I am allowed to beat you softly, but only under extreme circumstances, such as denying sex. > 7. If I want to get another wife, or two or three, it is my right, and Allah has recommended it, so if you were a good Muslim you will even help me search for a wife. However, if I do find one, you cannot object to me wanting to be a better Muslim. As far as I can tell, every one of these demands is halal; I seek to confirm this. **Question**: Are all of these demands by Andrea's husband legally acceptable? The husband seems within his rights to make these demands, and if the wife does not obey them, she could be labelled as "rebellious". Imam Shamsu ed-Deen Dhahabi , *Al-Kaba'ir* (translated) or *Major Sins* (pdf ) lists "A Wife's Rebellion Against Her Husband" as major sin number 47. Number 6 is an alarm bell for people who have experienced domestic violence. You learn to escape while you are still capable, before it escalates into something more serious. You put physical safety first, and ignore the social cost of your "friends" branding you irrational, rebellious, etc.

Can the Mahdi find out he is the mahdi by looking at the identification marks from the hadith or will he remain completely clueless till the time arrives?

In Islam it is believed that the Quran is “the word of Allah”, meaning that it is given to the prophet word-by-word by the angel Jibril and the prophet transfered it to whomever was around him at the moment. However, not every word that the prophet spoke was a revelation. Sometimes it is the prophet himself speaking and sometimes it is the revelation. How did people know that they heard the Quran when the prophet spoke? Did the prophet specifically stated before and/or after he spoke that it was a revelation?

This particular discussion really frustrates me. I recently got into the debates about the right group of Ahlus-Sunnah. Probably I will not repeat to research these discussions again. It is just frustrating to see Maturidis, Asharis and Atharis debating whether, who is Ahlus-Sunnah and who is Ahlul-Bidah (from an Aqeedah perspective). The question: Are there scholars, who affirmed that all those three groups (Atharis, Maturidis, Asharis) are Ahlus-Sunnah Wal Jamaah? (meaning in the technical definition, not in the meaning of being other than Shia) Additional thoughts: This debate really only creates division, if is debated under laymen. Also, if we exclude one of those groups, a large percentage of the Muslim Ummah will fall under the category of Ahlul Bidah out of nowhere in opposition to this Hadith: > And [it is reported] in al-Tirmidhi from Ibn ‘Abbas, he said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: “The hand of Allah is with the Jama‘ah.” [It is] an uncommon hadith. So the majority of Muslims can’t be misguided in this issue. Everyone, who excludes one large group, must explain this particular point.

Looking at other's awrah is a sin. But specifically speaking, what is the level of intensity of this sin? What do the Qur'an and Hadith indicate about this matter? I saw somewhere that Rasulullah (S.A.W) said that the person looking at the awrah and the person showing the awrah, both are cursed. Is this a legitimate hadith? If there's any problem in my question please inform me. Thanks!

To the Shi’a, the Ahlul-Bayt of the Prophet (S) consist of the following individuals ONLY: • Fatimah al-Zahra (sa), • Imam ‘Ali (as), • Imam al-Hasan (as), • Imam al-Husayn (as), • Nine descendants of Imam al-Husayn (as) Reference : https://www.al-islam.org/shiite-encyclopedia-ahlul-bayt-dilp-team/who-are-ahlul-bayt-part-1 Question: why don't we have a single descendant of Hassan among the 12 imams

Is Torah (sharia'a of Jew) considered Din el Batel (دين البطل)?

Chapter/Surah: 26 Verse/Ayah: 87 وَلَا تُخْزِنِي يَوْمَ يُبْعَثُونَ And corpus.quran.com says this verb is feminine. https://corpus.quran.com/wordmorphology.jsp?location=(26:87:2) So, is this source accurate?

Quran 33:59 >“ O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” The ‘hijab’ should be to protect Muslim women but according to studies over 25% of women wearing hijabs on trains in America have been abused and there are countless stories of how women wearing hijab have been catcalled or sexually abused. My question is the hijab is supposed to protect women from any form of abuse but it doesn’t seem to so what is the difference between not wearing the hijab and wearing it if the hijab isn’t protecting women from abuse and that not wearing the hijab may actually reduce chances of getting abused like so and makes the environment more safe for a women?

Asalamualaikum, Firstly, I would like to say I am a Muslimah. A few months ago, I wasn’t very practicing. I was very eager to know what my future life is like. So I decided to contact a Hindu astrologer (prem jyotish). He explained that he somehow looks at planets to forecast my future. I don’t believe that people can tell future by looking at planets. Anyways, during Ramadan I was researching to know more about Islam. Then I found out that astrology is actually a MINOR SHIRK. I was so sad I started crying. I knew it was sin but didn’t know it was that big deal. I repented and recited the shahadah. Now here is the real problem. Every time I think about my future, I always have shaitaan whispering “remember that the astrologer said you will have lots of wealth by February”. And I am believing it 😭 😭 😭. You know why? Because many people on google reviews are saying his predictions are always accurate. I don’t wanna believe it as it is shirk. But how can I not believe in it when so many people are saying his predictions are always right? I know he cannot tell my future by looking at stars and planets. An Islamic source said he contacts jinns to forecast my future. Apparently jinns do have limited knowledge about our future but not all. Please help. Am I committing shirk?

My elder brother is an atheist and so much rude & cruel to us that sometimes he even beats my parents specially my mother is the victim! You can't imagine what he has done to my family. I don't want to mention these scenarios , just assume that a 25 years old strong healthy sound minded person (atheist) who have no fear of Allah and several times he had thrown away the Quran, tore it off and disgraced it! What else can he do to us? When I close my eyes and think about him I see nothing but extremely bad memories! we're the victim of his oppression since 2011-12! So my question is short & simple: **Is he still considered as my family member? *Do I have to keep the relation with him?***

Can Maryam be considered a prophet even though she's a female? She seems to have had angelic meetings/messages and held in such high esteem by both Allah and followers. I'm new to understanding Islam, so by what basis is one considered a prophet?

Suhrawardi, an Islamic and Persian sage wrote: >The party of God will become divine, will praise God, will detach themselves and pass through the caves of the two mountains of Banu'l-Akhyaf to the two mountains of the Lesser Orient and Greater Orient, reaching the Gate of Gates. **Q. What does Suhrawardi mean by the "caves of Banu'l-Akhyaf"?**

I am 15 years old and my breasts are very huge and saggy. Is it permissible for me to have a breast reduction surgery when i get older? Please note that my breasts cause me a great deal of embarrassment and are affecting my daily life. just to make the question more comprehensible, i would like to know the rulings/arguments for and against both reduction and enlargement. please note that the intention of doing it is not for beauty or show-off. (one may wonder why enlargement then, consider a scenario where the husband requests)

https://sunnah.com/abudawud/1/66 Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri: The people asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): Can we perform ablution out of the well of Buda'ah, which is a well into which menstrual clothes, dead dogs and stinking things were thrown? He replied: Water is pure and is not defiled by anything. (Sahih by Al-Albani) Also https://sunnah.com/abudawud/1/67 Reading this it does not seem right that the water is pure?

A relative mailed me this du'a after my mother passed away last week. > Whoever is stricken with sadness, grief, sickness or hardship and > says: > "Allahu Rabbi, la sharika lah" (Allah is my Lord, without any > partners), then it will be removed from him.” > > [‘Sahih al-Jami’ #6040] I have heard that this (Sahih al-Jami) is a compilation by Sh. Al-Albani. Is there another title which is similar by another scholar or is this correct? And in the compilation, does anyone know the source of this narration?

Assalamuailakum, Is this sinful? My parents want to do an islamic marriage ceremony for my athiest brother (hes 28yo) and his girlfriend. They do not believe in Allah swt but my parents say as muslim themselves it is their duty to get them married islamically. This doesn't make sense to me as I feel like it is disrespecting the Islamic marriage tradition. The two people doing it need to have faith in Allah swt to be able for it to mean anything, they would have to convert to Islam right? Otherwise its just an act and its better for them to just get a civil marriage done in the eyes of the Law. Am I correct or are my parents allowed to make them do a "pretend" Islamic marriage ceremony for traditions sake? They also say doing the Islamic ceremony even if he and his girlfriend do not have faith is a good thing because he might come back to faith through it? And therefore they are doing their duty as Muslims. My brother being an atheist doesn't care either way about the religious aspect and will just do it because it means nothing to him and he mostly just wants the traditional wedding experience.

I am a owner of a game development company. Currently our team is working on a multiplayer shooter game. In that game, the user will purchase coins and play with others with some portion of that coin. Winners will get all the coin and after a certain amount of coins the winner can redeem that coin for real money. My question is: 1. Is this a gambling in eye of Islam? As it depends on player skill rather than luck then how could it be gambling? 2. If it is gambling then if I give them the opportunity to earn that coin from the game by doing some task then will the game still be gambling? (e.g. watching video ads will give the user 1 coin or something like that). I am a pure Muslim and at least I don't want to do any forbidden things that is directly mentioned in the Holy Qur'an. If the project is related to gambling then how can I make it legal in an Islamic way? I mean what feature will make it not forbidden in the eyes of Islam, keeping in mind that I don't want to remove the coin playing system.

I have a question. Since in Quran Mary is called sister of Aaron which scholars interpret that she was from his tribe. Well I have checked her father who is Imran in Quran genealogies in various interpretations of Quran(Zamakhshari, Qurtubi, Tabari and others as well) none of them suggest that he was from the same tribe as Aaron i.e. the tribe of Levi. Instead they trace back to Judah. Doesn't this mean that Mary was from the tribe of Judah or other tribe? If this is the case is Quran wrong in claiming her sister of Aaron then? Since we Muslims don't believe in biblical genealogies of Mary which too suggest that she was from Judah, that's why I had to check through Islamic sources. Genealogies are as follows (Zamakhshari)عيسى ابن مريم بنت عمران بن ماثان بن سليمان بن داود بن إيشا بن يهوذا بن يعقوب بن إسحاق عمران بن ياشم بن أمون بن ميشا بن حزقيا بن أحريق بن يوثم بن عزاريا بن أمصيا بن ياوش بن أجريهو بن يازم بن يهفاشاط بن إنشا بن أبيان بن رخيعم بن سليمان بن داود عليهما السلام(Ibn Kathir) عمران بن ماثان بن العازار بن أبي يوذ بن يوزن بن زربابل بن ساليان بن يوحنا بن أوشيا بن أمون بن منشكن بن حازقا بن أخاز بن يوثام بن عوزيا بن يورام بن سافط بن ايشا بن راجعيم بن سليمان بن داود بن ايشي بن عوبد بن سلمون بن ياعز بن نحشون بن عمياد بن رام بن حصروم بن فارص بن يهوذا بن يعقوب عليه السلام(baidawi)

I have recently heard that there are some internet websites which give small commission to the user who have made account on that site and view the advertisements published by that site. Is such earning halal?