Is it permissible to pay my tuition fees through a riba-based bank? My school has only one option to pay tuition fees. I only go to the bank and pay the fees to the cashier and they sign my fees card, then transfer the money to my school (maybe they also charge money from my school authority) . Is it permissible for me to pay through this bank?

So my wife and I are recent reverts, however my wife's family do not know she is Muslim yet because my wife does not feel ready to tell them just yet as her family are more spiritual rather than religious. Yesterday we had a family gathering with my wife's family and her aunt brought out and was using tarot cards on everyone in the room for fun including myself. I never looked into tarot cards so I wasn't too sure if it was haram, but it did not feel like something Allah would be pleased about. So my wife's aunt done a tarot card reading on me but honestly it sounds very generic and I did not take any of it seriously as I seek Allah for guidance not these man made cards. Obviously my wife's aunt is not a real fortune teller but after going online it said if you go to a fortune teller or palm reader then your prayer would be invalid for 40 nights. These tarot cards did not say anything negative, if anything it just said things like 'trust in yourself' 'trust your partner' 'be one with nature and the universe'. Where I believe trusting in Allah alone is sufficient and everything in those cards don't mean anything to me. I just wanted to check if I unintentionally commited a major sin? And if my prayer is invalid for 40 nights? If I seek repentances and seek forgiveness from Allah my prayers would still be invalid?

Assalam alaykoum. I want objectively speaking to understand if signs from Allah do exist to normal muslims through physical events wether its about warning you from something you currently do or guiding you to choose between different paths in life or preventing you from doing a sin you are not aware of . Or is it that we should only rely on quran and sunnah for our life decisions and not take on consideration life coïncidances as signs and something to act upon. Jazak allah kheir P.s. : My question got closed for some reason wether it is lack of clarity or due to the topic itseld, i hope this makes my question good to answer

Assalamu'alaikum, my friend invited me to a clubbing slash party for a fun night out. I currently go to university abroad and there are a lot of parties coming up. Yes, there will be alcohol and music, but I myself don't drink alcohol. Is that okay in Islam or is it haram? I kinda don't wanna go because I personally don't enjoy parties myself, but my friend really wants me to go and I don't mind actually. I'm just still conflicted whether it is prohibited or not. Can someone please help me and kindly explain? Thank You so much!

After every salat in masjid, I often see that some people recite something putting their right-hands on their head or forehead and counts in another hand. What is that dua and where they have found it? If it really exists, then what is the benefit of reciting it and how many times should it be recite? Jajakallah.

My work usually pays for my accommodation as I travel. Ordinarily, I stay in the cheapest possible place (e.g. backpackers), but sometimes I stay in more expensive places even though it's not strictly necessary. There'll be some justifications, e.g. the conference will be more convenient to get to; I didn't have time to optimize my bookings; I don't want to make my lab look like it's "cheap"; to avoid staying in mixed-gender accommodation. **Question**: Is unnecessarily staying in a more expensive hotel and charging it to my employer a sin? Depending on how you look at it, this resembles "theft"---I could send a smaller bill to my employer by staying at lower quality accommodation. My employer is not going to get grumpy at me (usually others stay in nicer accommodation than I require).

My brother is abusing my parents verbally and mentally. If I involve he does it with me too or throw his tantrum at my mother. He breaks everything if he doesn’t get. My parents send me abroad for study now I’m back he wants to go to abroad but he doesn’t have enough grades for it. If I try to explain him he speaks rude to me. He doesn’t pray, we tried. He does do substances and if he doesn’t get money from my mother he breaks everything. I tried to help my parents monetarily as I could. We ask Allah for hidaya but I don’t want him around my parents and in the society we are living we can’t even disowned him or get him out of the house. Sometimes I get fed up and ask Allah if he stays like this grant him death otherwise hm give him hidaya if he will get better for my parent.I can’t lose my parents for this guy. Is it sin for me to pray such thing?

So Dhul-Qarnayn was the righteous king who blocked Yajuj and Majuj, and is it true that he lived in the time of Ibrahim? There are also some people who say Yajuj and Majuj were around at the time of Musa, but that wouldn't make sense since Dhul-Qarnayn lived a long time before Musa (I think). Could someone please clear this up for me?

If you persist on a minor sin its elevated into a major sin that requires , tawbah? Right? It wont just go away with good deeds/from salah to salah, you must change. I've heard if you delay tawbah it is a sin, and the salvation from this is general tawbah. How do you do general tawbah? How can you it when it you should step away from everything that led u to **the sins** (not like making tawbah for 1 sin only) if u dont even remember some of the sins and it is unknown to you? General tawbah when it comes to the creation - how do you fullfill the 4th condition? Give back ALL their rights? Every single thing u might now know of? Ive been able so far to categorize it into *three* , These 3: wealth [stolen, taken, debt] psyichal harm [m×rder,blood money, qisas] Buhtan/gheeba/nameemah/ (lying to them/about?) Etc, **what more?**

I know a female doctor, a muslim doctor,she so kind and good doctor. If I got any sexual and my male organs matter. Some time I consult her. She is so preffesional and I didn't consult any other doctor for this matter. She only know my confidential matters in private area. She is aged. Above 55. Am 32. Any serious haram in this case? Because, lot of male doctors are there. But am a person who know very common in my area. Other male doctors know me. In social activities they also seeing regularly. So am shy to consult them. What they think of me and if they see my organs etc..Discomfort with their treatment and exam. but this female doctor already know about my medical background . Is it allowed? I searched same in chatgpt, i got +ve ans.

I read ,or let's say I write stories about two men loving each other. These stories do not contain any explicit scenes and the focus is not at all on sexual points and in reality I myself am not at all attracted to the same gender but I am really really addicted to writing and imagining these stories without sharing them with others. Is the sheer topic of them being the same gender haram? Is reading/writing these stories considered Zina of heart/eyes?

While in congregational salat ,after the imam has risen from the ruku position stating "sami'a Allahu li-man hamidah " do the followers say Rabbana wa laka l-hamd" out loud?

I came across this claim: > Our school (Shafi'i) insists upon the payment of the poll-tax by sickly persons, old men, even if decrepit, blind men, monks, workmen, and poor persons incapable of exercising a trade. As for people who seem to be insolvent at the end of the year, the sum of the poll tax remained as debt to their account until they should become solvent." Imam nawawi My question is what is the official Shafi school opinion on who is exempt from paying Jizyah.

I try to boycott most of the products that support israel but not all, am i sinful for not boycotting and what kind of haram is it, do i take the rights of the palestinian people?

In 2015, there was an Islamic Declaration on Climate Change which was organised by a number of Islamic organisations including Islamic Relief Worldwide, Greenfaith and others. This was presented to the UN and to carry on this work, the organisation Global Muslim Climate Network was set up. Nana Firman, the then co-chair of this organisation said at the time: >Islam teaches us that 'man is simply a steward whilst holding whatever is on earth in trust.' I've read this before - elsewhere. Q. Why is this, is it justified by reference to the Hadith or Qu'ran or both?

In the times when confusion comes in my salah, sometimes there is doubt that I have left a rakat and sometimes I am sure that I have left a rakat. I have to do sajdah sahu in second case but, what about the first case ? I have to do sajda sahu in first case also ?

I was with my friend in our schools assembly the national anthem started playing and he jokingly said I am American so I can't sing this national anthem who ch was playing(it was Pakistani national anthem) so I with a serious face and joking manner said this is haram I never mean to insult elements of islam please help

Assalamu alaikum, My question is as in the subject, is hair transplant allowed in islam? Can we go through the process of adding new hair from other area of the head where there is more growth of hair. **No artificial hair**

I've been talking to this guy for a while. He's on his deen, respectful towards his family, a provider, kind to me emotionally and values my needs when it comes to mental related things (I go to psychotherapy cause of depression and heavy anxiety that causes other mental and fysical things). Either way, we want to get married but it's been difficult since he's from another country ethnically and so am I. The one I'm from is INSANEY against mixed marriages. Of course like always this goes mostly for the women. We aren't allowed to marry outside our culture, also in our culture people know each other world wide so gossip spreads around like wildfire. My mother is really toxic and manipulative. She's the biggest cause of my mental issues. She basically bullies me on the daily and uses things I've done against me everytime. She will use things she does for me against me as well, this could be financially or an act of service. Most of the times things you have to do as a mother. My dad is lazy, he does nothing but lay on the couch all day. My parents are (government officially?) divorced but are islamically still married. My older brothers were abusive towards me before and one is a junkie and the other one is slightly recovering. My other brother is extremely mean to me at times. All of my brothers have hit me before, one of them even multiple times. My dad cusses at my mom a lot and so does my mom. My mom will slut shame me infront of my brothers and when they do it she'll literally say "cause you are" when I confront her about their behaviour. I know they're never gonna agree to me getting married to the guy I want to get married to. But their reasonings would genuinely only be his ethnicity and that's it. They have no other reason considering in all aspects he's perfect and with him my deen only grew stronger and he pushed me far away from ending my life cause of my family situation. I can't go far with my life with them in it, it's the truth. He also lives in another country the guy but he came to visit some time. I'm not sure what to do, I want to make our relationship halal as soon as possible. His parents know about me and don't mind it at all. They only care about my deen. What do I do?

Are erotophobic (afraid of sex/sexual intimacy that can also include marriage) and asexual individuals or people with sensory processing issues (being hypersensitive to sensory input in intercourse) apart of ghayr uli al irbah?