QUESTION:- What is the ruling on accommodating a non-Muslim family member in a Muslim home? My grandmother is Hindu and is aged. She has only two daughters who can take care of her, i.e. my mother and my aunt, who will share the responsibility equally. However, my...
QUESTION:- My husband often gets angry when I do things with my mother. He almost always has a conflicting opinion with my mother. Should I give preference to him, or my mother? ANSWER:- Your parents have rights over you, and serving and pleasing them is the door to...
Question:- I have heard many a times that if a wife doesn't fulfill the needs of her husband then she is cursed by the angels. I want to know, what happens when a wife has desires and needs but the husband doesn't respond to her desires? Answer:- Allah Ta’ala has...
Question:- A lady had terminated her pregnancy at 12 weeks some time back. She regrets her action and has repented. What other action can she do to recompense the heinous sin that she had committed? Answer:- There is no other compensation for the error committed,...
Question:- What does "maintaining family ties/maintaining ties of kinship" entail? What is the minimum a person should do? Which members of a person's family should family ties be kept with? Answer:- At the onset, it should be borne in mind that, joining family ties...
Question:- A person has been giving his mother a monthly allowance of a certain amount for many years. He now has to pay his mother for her share in a house which she inherited from his late father. Can he now instead of giving her a monthly allowance, give his mother...
Question:- Mufti Saheb, kindly advise what would be the manner of maintaining family ties with a person who is heavily on drugs, refuses to get help and is difficult to be around, as one is unsure of their condition and feels endangered by them. Answer:- Indeed they...
Question:- An Aalim was invited to my aunt's house to find out what was going wrong in the family, and why there were so many problems they faced despite being so wealthy. Nothing would go right for the children. They would find a spouse, but on so many occasions it...