Islamic Laws

The shar‘ī effects of being son or daughter do not apply to the adopted child. The child is not considered his son or daughter.

There is no problem in buying, selling and using perfumes contain alcohol which you do not know whether it originally belongs to the category of a liquid intoxicant or not.

A Muslim is not allowed to go to a mixed swimming pool under any circumstance.

It is a jurisprudential fatwā that the people’s duty with respect to enjoining the good and forbidding evil is limited to oral enjoining and forbidding and the other grades are the responsibility of the authorities.

You are not allowed to photocopy a book or duplicate a CD with a copyright. The rights of both the author and the publisher must be respected.

Ayāt prayer becomes obligatory due the following four things: 1. Solar Eclips; 2. Lunar Eclips; 3. Earthquake; 4. Thunder and lightning, red and black cyclone and other similar celestial phenomena, which frightens most of the people.

It is permissible to work for Jews, Christians, and other non-Muslims, and taking wages from them, provided the work is not among the ḥarām works or detrimental to the general interests of Islam and Muslims.

Question: One of our workmates is not Muslim and he serves us water and tea.

It is not permissible to sit in, perform prayers in, or pass through places that have been usurped by a tyrannical regime.

It is permissible to sterilize a woman, who is afraid of pregnancy as being dangerous to her.

Question: Some mujtahids are of the opinion that the People of the Book are najis, while

If a dog drinks water or any other liquid from a vessel, the vessel should be first wiped with soil and then it should be washed twice with Kurr or lesser water.