Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: Is it mandatory for a Muslim woman to change her surname to her husband’s name after marriage in Islam? Is it wrong to continue using her father’s family name? Answer: Jazakumullahu Khayran/ Thank you for your question. There is no explicit evidence in the Qur’an or Hadith, neither commanding…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: I am planning to marry another wife. My current wife is not in agreement with this. What is the ḥukum/ solution to this? Answer: In the Name of Allāh, Most Merciful, Most Kind Jazāk Allāh Khayr/ Thank you for your question. Marriage is a serious life long commitment. There…
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: I would like to ask a question about mental health. If a parent or both were mentally ill, for example depressed, bipolar, etc. on medication and had a history childhood sexual abuse and history of incest, would it be Islamically permissible for them to have an abortion? What would…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badāt Question: Am I permitted, according to our religion, Islam, to donate my organs? Answer: Organ donation has been debated extensively in pre-modern and contemporary times. A number of Fiqh Academies across the globe, such as the Islamic Fiqh Assembly of the Muslim World League in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, have concluded…
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: Is it permissible for Muslims to attend non-muslim funerals? Answer: Jazākumullāhu Khayran/ Thank you for your question. In principle, there is no objection in attending non-Muslim functions or funerals. However, the caution a Muslim must take, is that one should not participate in anything, at the function, which is…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: Is offering “fatihah” and going to tombs of saints and imams prohibited in Islam? Answer: Jazakumullahu Khayran/ Thank you for your question. Reciting ‘fatihah’ usually denotes ‘rewards of deeds reaching the dead. Majority scholars regard this as permissible and valid. There are numerous prophetic reports and actions of the…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Question: Please explain and advice on the ruling of facial hair removal in women, in particular beautifying, reshaping, cleaning eye brows and in removing any facial hair that is manly and causes embarrassment to a women. Is removal of hair from arms and legs permitted in both men and women?…
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: Can you please tell me if the Qurʾān or ḥadīth (islamic source texts) mention how transsexual people should live? Is it permissible for them to change gender? Are they allowed to marry? I feel for them and do understand they suffer a pain with no bounds. Would appreciate very much…
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: I have a comb with lasers that is suppose to help with hair growth for my hair. Is it ḥarām (religiously prohibited) to use this or is it okay? Is this shirk because this may be associating something with Allāh’s quality of creating? Answer: Jazkā Allāh Khayr / Thank…
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat Recent studies have shown that a single shisha session is the same as smoking 200 cigarettes. (See report by World Health Organisation – WHO) Tobacco based shisha is detrimental to health, addictive and is a means of wasting time and money. “There’s a misconception that shisha is not as bad…