Is it permissible for a person to urinate whilst standing, and what is the ruling regarding this?
Category: Manners & Etiquette
Taking a book or newspaper to read in the toilet
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. So is this permissible?
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 [considering] there are Qur.aanic verses and...
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, so he can see her (what she looks like) and decide whether he...
Knowledge
Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorised.
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), keeping in mind that their price...
In order to compete with the scholars
Do not acquire knowledge in order to compete with the scholars, nor to argue with the ignorant, nor to gain mastery over the gatherings. Since whoever does that, then: The Fire! The Fire!