Question:
Is it permissible for female sisters to write to brothers who are in prison?
Answer:
Islam came with guidelines, rules and principles that scholars derived from the study of the Qur'an and Hadith.
Among those principles are what Imam Ahmad, Malik, Ibn Taymiyyah and others established under (سد الذرائع) which is the rule of avoiding ...
Many of our oppressed imprisoned brothers resort to hunger strikes when the world, including their Muslim brothers, turn their backs on them. The question becomes whether or not this is allowed Islamically. The simple answer to this matter is that refusing to eat and/or drink until one dies or severely harms himself is not permissible and ...
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Now, I have always seen the Islamic background and isnad for the idea of modesty and covering in general, yet there has always been in my mind a cloud of doubt around the exact isnad for the very specific modern hijab Muslim women wear today, i.e. covering the hair. For example, with the ...
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Today at work a co-worker asked me if cremation was haram, I told her yes, and she asked why but I wasn't able to tell her why. If you can let me know why cremation is haram in Islam. Also, this is regarding the pledge of allegiance, why is it not allowed in Islam ...