When I need to go to the toilet [to answer the call of nature] – may Allaah honour you [O Shaykh] – I take with me a book or newspaper [to read] whilst I am in there.
Category: Manners & Etiquette
Using newspapers as eating mats and spreads
What is the ruling regarding eating and drinking from daily newspapers and [in particular] those who use them as [eating] mats and spreads for their food…
Saying “السلام عليكم” to an unknown caller on the telephone
What is the ruling regarding saying ‘as-salaam [‘alaykum] to someone on the telephone if you do not know whether they are Muslim or not?
Havng mercy upon an open sinner
When a Muslim dies, is it permissible to have/show mercy to him if he was a faasiq (open sinner) during his life?
Urinating whilst standing-2
Is it permissible for a person to urinate whilst standing, keeping in mind that nothing [of the urine] touches his body or his clothes?
Exchanging photographs via the internet
Is it permissible for a woman to send a photograph of herself via the internet to a man looking to get married, but who lives far away?
Wearing coloured contact lenses
What is the ruling regarding wearing coloured contact lenses with the justification [for doing so] being for beautification and following the latest trend (fashion)?
Joking with lies
Is there a difference between intentionally lying and jokingly lying? And is it permissible for a person to lie jokingly?
Eating from the hand of a menstruating woman
Is it permissible to eat from the hand of a menstruating woman? [Please] advise us [and may Allaah] reward you.
Extending the greeting to the opposite sex
I am a university student, and sometimes I extend salaam to the female students. So is it halaal or haraam for a male student to extend salaam to his female colleagues at university?