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Overcoming needs and desires whilst fasting

Fasting [صوم], Fatwa, Other issues pertaining to the fast, The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts 11 November 2000 Abu 'Abdullaah

When a Muslim fasts, is he able to overcome his needs and desires? How is that? How does the Muslim view the world in its reality?

Giving charity specifically on the night of 15th of Sha’baan

Charity [زكاة], Fatwa, The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts 2 November 2000 Abu 'Abdullaah

When my father was alive, he entrusted me to give sadaqah (charity) according to my means on the 15th of Sha’baan every year, and likewise I have been doing this ever since.

Selling women’s products

Fatwa, The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, Transactions 12 August 2000 Abu 'Abdullaah

I have a business in which I sell perfumes, watches, makeup (cosmetics), creams, hair-dryers and ready-made women’s clothing which are long and not revealing.

Trading in monkeys

Fatwa, The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, Transactions 12 August 2000 Abu 'Abdullaah

So some brothers have informed me that trading in monkeys is haraam, considering they are a sign of punishment and wrath [from Allaah].

Selling items used by women for adornment

Fatwa, The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, Transactions 12 August 2000 Abu 'Abdullaah

What is the ruling regarding trading in women’s beauty items [inclusive of clothing], and selling them to women whom the sales assistant knows will wear them to beautify themselves in front of non-mahram men in the streets?