Tag: Knowledge العلم
Are suicide bombings lawful in Islam?
Share By Abu Amina Elias for FaithinAllah.org Question: Are suicide bombings or “martyrdom operations” allowed in Islam? Answer: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Our position is that suicide bombings are unlawful in every circumstance as it involves the deliberate destruction of one’s life and often involves killing innocent bystanders. Suicide is [...]
Was Prophet Muhammad a pedophile who had sex with children?
Share By Abu Amina Elias for FaithinAllah.org Question: Your prophet married a nine-year old girl. Isn’t this pedophilia and child abuse? Answer: Scholars disagree concerning the age of Aisha when she married the Prophet, the earliest estimate being that she was nine-years old. This means that the marriage contract was ratified after Aisha reached puberty, [...]
An-Nawawi on the Virtue of Seeking Knowledge
“Whoever travels a path in search of knowledge, Allah makes easy for him a path to Paradise.”
Are Muslims only kind to other Muslims and harsh with unbelievers?
Share By Abu Amina Elias for FaithinAllah.org Question: Your book reads, “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves.” (48:29) Jesus says love your enemies. I feel like Christianity is a religion of peace and Muslims are only good to people who follow their religion. [...]
Hadith of the Gharqad Tree: Is it a good deed to kill Jews in Islam?
Share By Abu Amina Elias for FaithinAllah.org Question: I heard that Prophet Muhammad said, “You will fight against the Jews and you will kill them until even a stone would say: come here, O Muslim, there is a Jew, so kill him.” (Sahih Muslim, Book 41, Number 6981) Does this mean killing Jews is a [...]
Do Muslims drink camel’s urine as medicine?
Share Answered by Abu Amina Elias at FaithinAllah.org Question: Is it true that Muslims drink camel’s urine for medicine? Answer: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful The Arabs at the time of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would prescribe camel’s urine for various sicknesses but this has no religious [...]
Essential Obligations of Islam According to the Maliki School
“It is unlawful for a Muslim to lie, to backbite, to gossip, to be arrogant, to be impressed with one’s self, to show off, to seek reputation, to envy, to hate, and to ridicule.”
Questionable Authenticity of a Hadith on the Reward for a Child’s Merciful Glance at His Parents
Share Answered by Abu Amina Elias for FaithinAllah.org Question: As-Salaamu Alaykum brother, I have a question. How sound is this Hadith? Ibn Abbas (radi Allahu anhu) narrated that the Prophet (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “A righteous child who looks upon his parents, even a single glance of genuine affection, receives a reward from [...]
Ibn Taymiyyah on Compulsion: The jurist and the cleric cannot compel people to follow their school of thought
“It is not for the scholar to compel the people to adopt his school of thought.”
[Ibn Taymiyyah, Majmu' Al-Fatawa 30/79-80]
An-Nawawi on the Prayer of Seeking Guidance, Salat Al-Istikharah
Share By Abu Amina Elias for FaithinAllah.org An-Nawawi recorded in his book Riyad us Saliheen: باب الإستخارة والمشاورة Chapter: Praying of Seeking Guidance and Consultation Allah Almighty said: وَشَاوِرْهُمْ فِي الْأَمْرِ Consult them in the matter… [Surah Ali Imran 3:159] أَمْرُهُمْ شُورَىٰ بَيْنَهُمْ …who conduct their affairs with consultation between them… [Surah Ash-Shura 42:38] Jabir [...]
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