Answered by Shaykh Mazhar Mahmood Question: Is one allowed to shave, trim or shape the hair directly below the bottom lip (hair also known as the ‘baby beard’)? Answer: The soul patch, also known as a mouche or baby beard (Arabic: العنفقة alʿanfuqah) is a small patch of facial hair located just below the lower…
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: Is it necessary to take a bath/ ghusl when there is discharge after talking to my fiancé? Does washing the area suffice? Answer: In the Name of God, Most Merciful, Most Kind If madhīy (pre-seminal fluid, a sticky transparent discharge when sexually aroused) exits the private organ, wudū (ablution) becomes necessary.…
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: Is it necessary to change my name as I have recently taken the shahādah (testimony of faith)? Answer: In the Name of God, Most Kind, Most Merciful Jazāk Allāh Khayr/ Thank you for your question. Congratulations on your reversion to Islam. May your journey to Islam be filled with…
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: Could you provide the Ḥadīths that indicate, when iqāmah is called, that each of the wordings can be repeated twice. For example: like in the adhān. Please provide the reference of the ḥadīth book and any other details for the evidence. Answer: In the Name of God, Most Kind,…
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: If a husband and wife have not consummated their marriage (the actual act of intercourse), but engage in other intimate acts with each other, is their marriage invalid? Is there a time limit after marriage for a husband and wife to consummate their marriage through sexual intercourse? If 3…
Answered by Shaykh Mazhar Mahmood Question: My daughter was involved in a premarital relationship with a close family friend’s son. I really admire the boy’s services to Islām and his passion for it, but I didn’t like the manner in which he approached my daughter, hence I wish to get her married elsewhere. Please provide…
Answered by Shaykh Mazhar Mahmood Question: I’m a postgraduate student in the faculty of hadīth and am eagerly waiting to request my professors to give me permission in obtaining the famous sanad (chain of hadīth to Allāh’s Messenger peace and blessings upon him) consisting Bābā Yūsuf al-Hirawī who is said to have lived 300 years,…
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: Is machine slaughtered chicken ḥalāl (permissible)? Answer: In the Name of God, Most Merciful, Most Kind In order for chickens slaughtered by machine to be ḥalāl, the following conditions must be strictly met. If they are not met, the poultry will be considered non-ḥalāl: The machine operator and or…
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: I would like to give $1000 in loan to an Islamic organization. The organization promises to return the money to me after one year. Is it permissible for me to ask them to pay my zakāh for the $1000 loan on my behalf. Answer: In the Name of God,…
Answered by Shaykh Mazhar Mahmood Question: I was sacrificing my goat on the day of ‘EĪd and forgot to recite the name of Allāh upon the animal due to excitement. Is the animal halāl (legitimate to consume)? Answer: According to Islamic principles of theology and jurisprudence, in the above-mentioned case, the animal is considered Halāl…