Bidah

What is the Significance of the Night in the Middle of Sha’bān? ―Ibn ‘Uthaimīn, Ibn Bāz, Ibn Rajab, Al-Albāni, Abu Bakr At-Tartūshi, Ibn Waddāh

Al-Allāmah Ibn ‘Uthaimīn Is there any Sunnah that is legislated in the night of the middle of Sha’bān (i.e. the 15th of Sha’bān)? There are some hadeeth cited that are [read on…]
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Celebrations

Valentine’s Day, Mothers Day, Halloween, April Fools, Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving and Holi: Ibn Taymiyyah on the Prohibition of Participating in the Festivals and Annual Celebrations of the Unbelievers.

In the name of Allāh, Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all creation; may Allah extol the mention of our noble [read on…]
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Health

The Plague (Tā’ūn) and Contagious Diseases (Wabā’) ―The sayings of the Prophet, the Sahābah, Ibn Al-Qayyim and An-Nawawi ―What should a person do when it afflicts a land?

Imām An-Nawawi (rahimahullāh) stated: “Plague (Tā’ūn) refers to blisters that appear on the body, under the armpits, the elbows, or on the hands, the fingers and elsewhere on the body. [read on…]
Fatwa

Harmonising between the Prophet’s negation of contagious diseases and his forbiddance of entering a land which has a contagious disease, mixing with afflicted people and touching them―Imām Ibn Bāz, Imām Al-Albāni and Al-Hāfidh Ibn Hajr

The hadeeth that is reported from the Prophet (salallāhu ‘alaihi wasallam) negating contagious diseases is related to what the people of pre-Islamic ignorance used to believe―that a contagious disease itself [read on…]
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Fatwa

A person who swears by Allah that he’ll do something and then sees that something else is better for him: Expiation for a broken oath ―Shaikh Ibn Bāz

When a person swears by Allah that he’ll do something in the future; then that is considered in Islam as an oath that must be fulfilled as long as it [read on…]