In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger. In this fatwa: 1- It is not permissible to exchange old gold for new even if the difference in value is paid to the goldsmith. 2- If someone wants to …
An Indian expatriate in Qatar has reached halfway of his ambitious project of writing the Holy Quran in a unique way using expensive crystals and pure gold, first-of-its-kind effort in the world.
I have a question regarding paying Zakah. I’m 25 years old and I’ve never before paid Zakah in my life. I really want to start paying it but I need a full detailed explanation on it
Wa `alaykum as-salamu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger. In this fatwa: It is a rule in the Islamic Shari`ah that gold cannot be sold in installments or on credit. Responding to …
A questioner has set aside some gold for their children they ask should they pay zakat on that? Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf explains.
Dozens of craftsmen are hard at work in a factory in Makkah preparing the embroidered black and gold Kiswah to cover the Kaaba. The Kiswah cloth is woven from silk and cotton and adorned with verses from the Qur’an. Saudis make a new one annually and place it on the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque …
We don’t have the mind of Allah, we don’t know why He did these things, but we do know that He didn’t need to make us, we do know that He didn’t need to make this world or anything that’s in it, we do know that He doesn’t need the angels to praise Him…
Our spirit matures in the face of tests and becomes prepared for bigger challenges, as the bigger the tests and harder the questions are, the more entitled the human is to pass the class and to rise higher in the school of human values and perfection.
How can there be more than whatever material we want? How can there be more than each person being given an estate that will take hundreds of years to cross through?
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