A Warning Against Reading and Believing in Horoscopes: Beware of This Modern-Day Fortune-Telling!

Shaykh Aziz Farhan Al-Anizi حفظه الله

The Magnificent Virtue of “Lā ilāha illa Allah”: Elevation in This World and Everlasting Honour in the Hereafter!

Sheikh Muhammad Sa’eed Raslan حفظه الله

📩 The Question:

I am a married woman, and when we eat as a family, I am required to mix and sit with my husband’s brothers. My husband’s father refuses to allow us to sit separately, and it has become very difficult for me. What is the ruling on this situation?

📝 The Answer:

Answered by our Shaykh al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad bin Ḥizām al-Baʿdānī — may Allah preserve him:

It is obligatory upon them that the woman be screened from his brothers, for the husband’s brothers are not from the maḥārim. She must be screened from them. In the two Ṣaḥīḥs, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir — may Allah be pleased with him — that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “Beware of entering upon women.” A man from the Anṣār said: O Messenger of Allah, what about the in-law (al-ḥamw)? He said: “The in-law is death.”

And al-ḥamw is the close relative of the husband — his brother, or his paternal uncle, or his maternal uncle.

His saying “the in-law is death” means: there occurs in it trials, and death is better than that — or: it should be avoided just as death is avoided — or: he should be warned of him just as one warns against death.

For carelessness may occur, and Satan may whisper, and he falls into the unlawful. So it is obligatory to screen the son’s wife from the remaining sons.

As for the matter of them gathering upon food, the women should gather together by themselves, and the men by themselves. Let the women be separate, and the men separate. And they must fear Allah, and give precedence to the Sharʿī evidences — and in that is the life of the hearts:

“O you who believe! Do not put yourselves forward before Allah and His Messenger, and fear Allah. Verily, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.” [al-Ḥujurāt 49:1]

“It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decreed a matter, that they should have any option in their decision.” [al-Aḥzāb 33:36]

So the believer has no choice after the command of Allah, the Most Glorious and Exalted:

“But no, by your Lord, they can have no Faith, until they make you (O Muḥammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) judge in all disputes between them, and find in themselves no resistance against your decisions, and accept (them) with full submission.” [al-Nisā’ 4:65]

“The only saying of the faithful believers, when they are called to Allah and His Messenger to judge between them, is that they say: ‘We hear and we obey.’ And such are the successful.” [al-Nūr 24:51]

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📩 The Question:

Do the hair-grips or hair-clips that women place on their heads enter into the saying of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in describing the blameworthy women: “their heads are like the humps of tilted camels”?

📝 The Answer:

Answered by our Shaykh al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad bin Ḥizām al-Baʿdānī — may Allah preserve him:

If she places it on the top of her head such that its largeness appears, then yes — they enter into the ḥadīth and into the blame. But if she places it behind her head, or on her neck at the back of the head, then it does not enter into that. And Allah knows best.

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📩 The Question:

Is a woman driving a car prohibited?

📝 The Answer:

Answered by our Shaykh al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad bin Ḥizām al-Baʿdānī — may Allah preserve him:

As for prohibition, it is not said that it is prohibited. However, she exposes herself to temptations, and she exposes herself to matters that may harm her. She exposes herself to the causes of fitan. So the advice is: to leave it and stay away from that. And she will need to uncover her face, or speak with men, and draw attention to herself. And also, driving cars exposes her to the possibility that she may encounter some matters which require the strength of men — such as repairing the car, accidents, and other matters. So the advice for women is: that they stay away from that. And Allah is the One from Whom help is sought.

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The Modern Plague of Lying on Social Media: The Major Sin of Spreading Lies About the People of Knowledge!

Shaykh Sulayman Ar-Ruhayli حفظه الله

If Cameras Were Watching You: You’d Be Mindful of Every Action and Word — So What About Allah Who Sees and Hears Everything!

Sheikh Muhammad Sa’eed Raslan حفظه الله

قال الشيخ سليمان الرحيلي حفظه الله
Shaykh Sulayman Ar-Ruhayli, may Allah preserve him, said:

ثلاثةُ أدعيةٍ احرصْ على المحافظةِ عليها في آخرِ صلاتك فرضاً كانت أو نفلاً، ففيها سعادةُ الأبد،
Three supplications—be keen to maintain them at the end of your prayer, whether obligatory or voluntary, for in them is everlasting happiness,

فإنَّ الله إن غفر ذنبَك، ووقاك شرورَ الفتن، وأعاذك من العذاب، وأعانك على ذكره وشكره وحسن عبادته، وهبك سعادةَ الأبد في الدنيا والآخرة:
For if Allah forgives your sin, protects you from the evils of trials, shelters you from punishment, and aids you in His remembrance, gratitude, and excellent worship, then He has granted you everlasting happiness in this world and the Hereafter:

(اللَّهُمَّ إنِّي أعُوذُ بكَ مِن عَذَابِ القَبْرِ، ومِنْ عَذَابِ النَّارِ، ومِنْ فِتْنَةِ المَحْيَا والمَمَاتِ، ومِنْ فِتْنَةِ المَسِيحِ الدَّجَّالِ)
“O Allah, I seek refuge with You from the punishment of the grave, and from the punishment of the Fire, and from the trials of life and death, and from the trial of the False Messiah.”

(اللَّهمَّ إنِّي ظلَمتُ نَفسي ظلماً كثيراً، ولا يغفرُ الذنوبَ إلَّا أنتَ، فاغفِر لي مغفرةً من عندِكَ، وارحَمني، إنَّكَ أنتَ الغفورُ الرَّحيمُ)
“O Allah, indeed I have wronged myself greatly, and none forgives sins except You, so forgive me with a forgiveness from Yourself, and have mercy upon me; indeed, You are the Oft-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.”

(اللهمَّ أعنِّي على ذكرِك وشكرِك وحسنِ عبادَتِك)
“O Allah, help me to remember You, to thank You, and to worship You in the best manner.”

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📩 The Question:

I have a very urgent question. Sometimes in my prayer I forget to recite a sūrah after al-Fātiḥah. What is the ruling on this? Does it invalidate my prayer?

📝 The Answer:

Answered by our Shaykh al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad bin Ḥizām al-Baʿdānī — may Allah preserve him:

The sūrah after al-Fātiḥah is from the recommended acts, and it is not from the obligations. Based on this, whoever forgets it — there is no sujūd al-sahw (prostration of forgetfulness) for it. The correct view is that one does not perform sujūd al-sahw for forgetting the sūrah, because it is recommended and not from the obligations.

And what indicates its being recommended is what has come in the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Prophet ﷺ asked a man: “What do you recite in the prayer?” He said: “I recite al-Fātiḥah, and I ask Allah for Paradise, and I seek refuge with Him from the Fire. By Allah, I do not do well your humming, nor the humming of Muʿādh.” So the Prophet ﷺ said: “Around that we are humming.”

He mentioned only the recitation of al-Fātiḥah. And in the two Ṣaḥīḥs from Abū Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, he said: “Whoever finishes with the Opening of the Book, it suffices him. He said: And if you add, it is better.”

And forgetting a sūrah after al-Fātiḥah does not necessitate sujūd al-sahw, because the correct view is that sujūd al-sahw is for leaving an obligation — contrary to those who say that sujūd al-sahw is also for recommended acts. This has no evidence. Sujūd al-sahw is for leaving the obligations.

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The Ruling on Earning Money from YouTube and TikTok: Halāl or Harām?

Shaykh Sulayman Ar-Ruhayli حفظه الله

Imām Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

Zubaydah bint Abī Ja‘far read on the way to Mecca, written on a wall:

“Is there — among Allah’s servants or among His maidservants —
A noble one who can clear away the sorrow of a mind lost in love?”

“He still has an eye, yet the corners of it are wounded from tears,
And his inner-chest burns with a fire that runs down into his very limbs.”

So she vowed that she would strive to find the one who said them until she could unite him with the one he loved. She said: “I was indeed at Muzdalifah when I heard someone reciting them, so I summoned him. He claimed that he had said them about a cousin of his, and her family had sworn not to marry him to her. So I dispatched a messenger to the tribe, and I continued offering them wealth until they married him to her. And the woman was more passionately in love than the man. And Zubaydah would count this among her greatest good deeds, and she would say: ‘There is nothing I am more pleased with than uniting that young man and that young woman.’”

Rawḍat al-Muḥibbīn wa Nuzhat al-Mushtāqīn, p. 393.