The families of the bride and groom want to have a joint walimah.
A walimah is a simple feast of gratitude. After the Nikah, the husband should call a few relatives and friends to his own house for a simple meal. Hiring a venue is part of the…
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Is it permissible to pay a molvi to deliver a lecture at a wedding?
It is haraam to charge money for giving a lecture, whether at a Nikah or at any other function.
I shall be getting married.
The joint/hybrid affair described by you is not a walimah. The walimah is a simple feast by the husband. After the Nikah, a few relatives, friends and some poor persons should be…
Is it permissible for a group of women to travel from Pietermaritzburg to Durban without their mahrams to attend a hifz seminar?
It is haraam for women to attend any kind of seminar, even so-called hifz seminars even in the street where they live. It is a major sin for them to travel from Pietermaritzburg to…
A jalsah was held for a boy who had completed hifz.
Even if there were no women present, then too, the jalsah was not permissible. It was a merrymaking concert of pride, show, and waste. (Takabbur, riya and israaf). On the basis of…
Is it permissible to attend Bingo games for fundraising for charitable purposes?
All games and sport are haraam. Bingo games are compounded haraam. It is haraam to attend such shaitaani games.
I do not eat from tables.
You should not accept the invitation if the eating will be kuffaar style- tables/chairs. Going there and asking them to spread a dastarkhaan for you, is not proper. The best is not…
My daughter is in grade 1 in Madrasah.
Never send your daughter to participate in this satanic jalsah. Shaitaan has indeed convoluted the brains of these madrasah juhala (ignoramuses). Such ways are in emulation of the…
I am a female.
It is haraam for you to attend the university brothel. It is haraam to obey this haraam order of your parents. Politely, respectfully and firmly refuse. Do not displease Allah…
There is a group calling themselves „Deen Team‟.
The scoundrels who organize haraam sports are followers of Iblees. The appropriate name for them is Devil‟s Team. They are apes and pigs according to the Hadith. It is mentioned in…
Not so long ago there was a function at the Nurul Islam Masjid in Lenasia.
It was a haraam, satanic, merrymaking function of riya and takabbur. The organizers are deviates and agents of shaitaan. The four groups who sponsored the stupid function of riya…
I attended a function where the salaami was recited.
The error was to attend the haraam function. Standing up and reciting the bid‟ah salaami aggravate the prohibition. It is bid‟ah to stand and recite the salaami. It is not…
In Cape Town there is a Musjid where Christian music was played on a day they called „Open Mosque‟.
You are mistaken regarding the organizers. They are not Muslims nor is the venue a Musjid. It is a kuffaar temple and the people who participated and organized are all kuffaar.
Is it wrong for grandparents not to attend the Nikah and Walimah of their grandchild?
There is nothing wrong even if the father is not present at the Nikah of his son or daughter. Nikah in Islam is a simple 5 minute act. A Walimah is also a simple feast organized at…
Is it permissible to hire a hall for a walimah?
Hiring a hall for a feast is not permissible. It is israaf (waste) and is accompanied by riya (show) and other haraam acts. Furthermore, the feast which is customarily organized in…
The Majlis/Al-Haq has branded voting haraam and that it is to vote for Taghoot.
Yes, voting is a system of Taghoot. It is haraam to vote. But nowhere did we make takfeer (proclaimed kaafir) the Ulama who say that it is permissible. Tajheel (declaring as…
A Turkish group (UICT) come to distribute literature at our Musjid.
The UICT Turkish group is a Gulen entity. Do not allow them to distribute any of their literature. Beware of them.
Is it permissible to listen to ghadat without going to the function?
Ghadat is bid‟ah. It is not permissible to listen to it. It is akin to attending the haraam bid‟ah practice of morons.
May woman attend a talk by an Aalim in a hall if separate seating arrangements are made for them?
Regardless of the separation scenario explained by you, it remains haraam for women to leave home to attend the talk. In fact, the scenario depicted by you is no separation at all…
Is it permissible to organise a lil eid party some other day (not on Eid day), decorating with eid banner and exchanging gifts?
This „lil eid party‟ is haraam. It is bid‟ah.