What is your opinion regarding placing two stones on the grave of men and one stone on the grave of women – is this differentiation legislated?
Category: Scholars
From the manners of eating
After finishing eating food, a person takes to fruit; he picks it up with his right hand, and as a result some food remains [from his right hand] fall on the fruit, and the people dislike this.
‘Abdullaah Ibn Humayd
Former Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia and Chairman of the Council of Senior Scholars, who memorised the Qur’aan despite losing his sight in infancy.
Performing ruqyah using the Qur.aan and authentic Prophetic prayers and supplications
What is the ruling of performing the ruqyah with the Qur.aan and authentic prayers and supplications of the Prophet ﷺ?
Burning the possessed woman
There is a woman suffering from epilepsy, and [at the same time] possessed by a female jinn. Whenever the woman is beaten [by the raaqee], the jinn does not respond by coming out of her body.
Going to church for treating insanity
It is claimed that treatment for insanity is to be sought at church, in particular, the church of Mary Jirjis, or from sorcerers and charlatans commonly practising in villages.
The descending of Jibreel from the sky whilst performing ruqyah
Some of the brothers in our area treat jinn-possessed cases by reciting aayaat from the Qur.aan.
The validity of ruqyah
What is the Islaamic position regarding the ruqyah? I have heard about a companion [of the Prophet ﷺ) who treated a patient by ruqyah, and was given some sheep in return.
Using the Qur.aan to ward off the jinn
I am a blind man. Every night a number of jinn come to my house and I am very scared of them. I now use a copy of the Qur.aan to keep them away; if I hold it up in their faces, they leave me.
Depositing money in a bank for safe keeping
Is it permissible for whoever has a lump sum of money to put it in a bank with the intention for safe keeping, and whenever the zakaah is obligatory upon that sum of money he extracts the required…