Question Would a will be classified as executed if inheritors did not have possession of their shares? Can one person be given all the assets of inheritance? What if relatives want to gift their share to another relative? Answer When a person passes away, ownership of their assets automatically pass over to the rightful heirs….
Question Is it permissible to renege on a job offer after having accepted it? It is common in the IT industry to renege on an accepted offer when another (usually more attractive) offer suddenly crops up. Companies know that the person who signed the contract is not guaranteed to start until the first day of…
Question Assalam o Alaiqum My question is that ‘Is there a special worship that one should do on the night of 15th Sha’ban and if there is can you point any reference from the Quran or from the Sahi Hadees that Prophet Muhammad S.A.W or any Sahabah did any special worship on that night?’ i…
Question We listened to a short talk about student loans being haram and that the students can accept zakat. Now my question is do the parents have to pay their childrens loan of they can afford to? We have the money but that’s all we have. We rent, we don’t have anything other than some…
Question Assalamu alaykum, Someone made a firm intention to never commit a certain action again (depending on the circumstance, this action can be impermissible, makruh, permissible, or even rewarding – the person intended/spoke generally about it, and intended to never again do any version of it, not even rewarding). The person did not intend to…
Question As Salamu Alaikum We are a Company that exports goods to Countries. Therefore, we have to claim back VAT. Normally we receive our VAT payment within 1 or 2 months of submitting the VAT file. However, last year we submitted our VAT file for October Month and we were told that HMRC needed to…
Question بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Dear mufti sahib, I pray you are in the best of health. I worked for my company T-Mobile US for 5 years as an engineer. As part of the compensation package, company give yearly restricted stock units equivalent to approximately 3000-6000 $USD. I used these stocks for savings for my…
Question Assalāmu `alaykum, My first question is whether it’s allowed to give a child a ‘nickname’ such as ‘Abū Abdillāh’ even if they don’t have a son named Abdullāh, but rather with the intention of giving them the blessed name of ‘Abdullāh’ as well as their main name. Secondly, what’s the ruling of responding to…
Question Asalamu’alaikum, Ibn Hajar (rh) mentions in Fath al Bari the following incident: وروى مسلم – أيضا – في ((كتاب التفصيل)) بإسناد صحيح ، عن بكير بن الأشج ، قال : لنا بسر بن سعيد : أيها الناس ، اتقوا الله ، وتحفظوا في الحديث ، فوالله لقد رأيتنا نجالس أبا هريرة ، فيحدثنا عن رسول…
Question Salaams just wanted to ask my son has special needs he’s got a learning difficulty and mild autism when he goes to do istinja he can’t do it properly he will leave poo stains on his pants so he finds it difficult to pray what is the correct way of doing istinja for him…