Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: My ankle is soar so am I allowed to wear some kind of bandage or ankle strap while in iḥrām? Answer: بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيْم In the name of Allāh, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Jazāk Allāh Khayr/ Thank you for contacting Mathabah Insitute. During iḥrām (the sacred state of…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: Can you make ‘Umrah with the intention of more than one person or only one? Answer: بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيْم In the name of Allāh, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Jazāk Allāh Khayr/ Thank you for contacting Mathabah Institute. It is permissible to make ‘Umrah on behalf of multiple people,…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: If someone is adopting a child, and the law here is, that you have to give him your family name, will this be allowed? They also give the option to have two names, his family name and yours? Answer: بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيْم In the name of Allāh, Most…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: There are ibārāt (source texts) to indicate that ‘Aṣr ṣalāt performed during makrūh (disliked) time will also be rendered makrūh. The karāhah is not just in deferring it. Will that fall under this principle كل صلاة أديت مع كراهة التحريم تجب إعادتها and require repeating? Answer: بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: If someone covers a wound with a band-aid (bandage or plaster), apparently the blood has stopped. A few hours later, he checks it and there is blood on the band-aid, what happens to the ṣalahs he performed with the band-aid on. Answer: بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيْم In the name…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: How does a woman pray ṣalāh with niqāb during iḥrām or does she just give ṣadaqah for each ṣalāh? Answer: بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيْم In the name of Allāh, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Jazāk Allāh Khayr/ Thank you for contacting Mathabah Institute. While in iḥrām (the sacred state in…
Answered by Shaykh Yāsuf Badāt Question: A baby boy has been born and the family would like to do aqīqah of one sheep in the UK and the other sheep a few months later in Bangladesh. Would this method fulfill the right of aqīqah? Answer: بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيْم In the name of Allāh, Most…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: Can an English (British) divorce result in a ṭalāq (islamic divorce)? What if a British judge grants us divorce and we get back together within 3 months? Do we still have to do ḥalālah? Answer: بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيْم In the name of Allāh, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Jazāk…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: Are these two narrations reliable and authentic? The ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah: The angel of death will say to Allāh, ”O Allāh, all those who are in the heaven and those who are in the dunyā, they have come to an end except who you wish to remain alive…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: I was joking around with my wife about a second marriage. She said, “How will you please her in the bed when you cannot please me. You last only 1 minute.” I said, “Are you not ashamed talking like this?” She said, “I can talk like this because it…