Category: Sisters
Women’s Mosque? Women’s Empowerment?
By Khalid Baig The Women’s Mosque of America has started operations in Los Angeles. It is not a mosque per se, but the name of…
How I Raised 8 Intelligent, God-Conscious Children
I’d met the eldest daughter at law school: a hafidhah who was fluent in English, Arabic and Malay, a bright student who’d studied 3 different…
Women speaking on microphones
Questions: In gatherings of women they speak on the microphone. Their voices are heard from far off. Are women allowed to speak on the Deen over…
Friendship with Non mahram
Question: We learn from the hadith that severing ties is disliked by Allah. Does friendship also come under this? Answer: حامدا ومصليا ومسلما The words of…
Women in front of Peers or Shaikhs
Question: Is it allowed for women to become mureeds of a peer of tariqah (shaikh of tasawwuf)? Will the peer then become her mahram? Answer: حامدا ومصليا ومسلما…
Speaking with a Non Mahram over the phone
Question: Can a boy speak to a non mahram girl over the phone? Can he meet her at a store? Answer: حامدا ومصليا ومسلما It is…
Removing hair and nails during menses and lochia
Question: Is a woman allowed to clip her nails and remove the hair of her underarms and private parts in the state of haidh (menses)…
I married without my parents permission and now I'm not happy with the wife. What should I do?
Question: A boy and girl made nikkah without parents’ consent as they both follow hanafi madhab, while the boy was in Jamaat. However, the boy…
Contraceptives
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh. Contraception can be divided into two categories: 1) Irreversible (or…
Abortion
In the name of Allāh, Most Gracious, Most Merciful Assalāmu ῾alaykum wa Rahmatullāhi Wabarakātuh At the outset it should be understood that Allāh Tā`la has…