Question:

Is there any particular reason why zakaah is prescribed?

Answer:

Praise be to Allaah.

 

Firstly: 

It should be noted that Allaah does not prescribe anything that is not for the best reasons and does not achieve the best interests. Allaah is the All-Knowing, Who encompasses ...

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Question:
At work - I am a cashier, and there are Christmas cards with shirk on them "Jesus is God - and Loves You" etc... If a customer brings these to me, and I ring him up and put the money in the register - am I a kaafir? I hate the shirk, ......., ......, am I a kaafir?

Answer:

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By sheikh Abdelrahman Alwaheeby,

Alhamdu Lelah, recently , the phenomenon of families (Husband and wife and sons and daughters) traveling abroad, has increased. Sometimes sons and daughters and the mother travel without the father to spend vacation in infidel country or some Arab country that ... Continue Reading

Saalih ibn Ghaanim as-Sadlaan
"an-Nushooz"
translated by Jamaal ad-Deen Zarabozo

The husband himself may be the cause of the woman’s disobedience and rebelliousness. For example, he may be very stingy and miserly. He may also be very emotional and excitable. He may also be someone who is ...

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by Akmal Hasan

Narrated : Abdullah ibn Mas'ud

MISHKAT AL-MASABIH

No: 0166

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) drew a line for us and then said: That is the path shown by Allah. Then he drew several other lines on his right and left sides and said: These are the paths on every side ... Continue Reading

Originally published in The Age Newspaper
(http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2002/01/16/FFXN85RPGWC.html)

Secularisation no answer for Muslim world

By AMIR BUTLER
Wednesday 16 January 2002

Two consistent themes in much of the contemporary analysis of world affairs have been the impending ...

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I was reading a book in the dining room when the printer started to print. Strangely, my computer was in ANOTHER room and I was the only person in the house. I picked up the message which read:

"The oceans, the insects, the planets and their orbits, the light and the darkness, the air and the ...

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