Category: Fatwa – religious verdicts

Question: Is it permissible for me to send my maid for the obligatory Hajj with a group of women travelling with a Hajj package group (company specialising in transporting the Hajj pilgrims)? Response: It is impermissible for a woman to travel for the Hajj or other than the Hajj except with a mahram, whether she is […]

Question: What is the ruling regarding a wife who leaves to perform the obligatory (first) Hajj without her husband’s permission? Response: The obligatory Hajj is (only) obligatory if (all) its conditions are satisfied and (seeking) the permission of the husband is not from amongst them. It is not permissible for him to prevent her, rather, […]

Question: A woman performed the Hajj whilst she was pregnant. When she returned from the Hajj, her (unborn) child died. So, will she and her child be rewarded for that Hajj? Response: Only the woman will be rewarded for the Hajj. As for her child, then there is no Hajj for him.

Question: What is the correct opinion concerning the Hijree year in which the Hajj began (was legislated)? Response: The scholars have differed as to which year the Hajj was obligated. So, it is said in the

Question: What is the ruling concerning the one who performs Hajj whilst he has abandoned prayer, either intentionally (because he believes he doesn’t have to) or due to neglect? Is his Hajj acceptable? Response: Whoever performs the Hajj whilst he does not pray because he believes it is not obligatory, then he has committed kufr […]

Question: Is the obligation of performing the hajj to be undertaken promptly [once all its conditions are met], or to be done at one’s convenience? Response: That which is correct is that it is obligatory [to undertake the hajj] promptly; And it is prohibited for a person who is able to perform hajj to the […]

Question: Is it permissible for a person to go for jihaad, even though he has not yet performed [his obligatory] hajj? Response: It is not permissible for him to go for jihaad if he has not yet performed [his obligatory] hajj, if by going for jihaad entails him leaving off [going for] hajj.

Question: I am a blind man. Every night a number of jinn come to my house and I am very scared of them. I now use a copy of the Qur.aan to keep them away; if I hold it up in their faces, the leave me. However, some people have told me that it is incorrect to […]

Question: There is a woman suffering from epilepsy, and (at the same time) possessed by a female jinn. Whenever the woman is beaten (by the raaqee), the jinn does not respond by coming out of her body. So is it permissible in this case to burn her with fire so that the jinn will leave this woman?

Question: A man died and his wife was elderly, over seventy years old, with little ability to think and no servant. He died while she was still married to him. Does she have to go through the mourning period like others? What is the wisdom behind such an act if someone is old like her? […]