If a Shāfiʿī muqtadi (follower) reads Fajr ṣalāh behind a Ḥanafī imam, what would be best for the Shāfiʿī to do with regards to Dua e Qunūt? Can he shorten the qunūt? If he does shorten the qunūt, does he make sujūd al-sahw (the prostration of forgetfulness)? If he reads the entire qunūt and joins the imam in sajdah, does he still make sajdah?
When does the Takbīr officially begin and end for Eid al-Adḥā?
Is it permissible to intend a Qurbāni/Udhiyah as Aqīqah with the same animal?
May one sacrifice (qurbān) an animal that has been castrated?
Is it permissible to give certain parts of the Qurbani/Udhiyah meat to non-Muslims, since there are parts which Muslims are usually not accustomed to eating?
May one perform a sacrifice (qurbāni) on behalf of the deceased without their instruction?
Is it permissible for women to shorten/cut their hair?
Is the Brazilian hair treatment permissible in Islam?
What is the Shāfiʿī ruling on using synthetic alcohol in food products like ice cream, biscuits, etc?
Is it permissible for a lady to pluck her eyebrows?
Is it permitted that the bride attend the marriage ceremony which is traditionally performed in the mosque and attended by men only?
Is it permitted Islamically to perform cosmetic surgery to correct a birth defect? If not, will the surgeon be equally culpable in the eyes of Shari`ah? What if the patient was non-Muslim? Would you also provide some titles of works in English to which I could refer?
I’ve had people recently asking me the ruling for shaving the beard in accordance to my understanding all four schools of thoughts had a consensus that shaving is haram; however, I have read recently that the relied-upon position for the Shāfiʿī madhhab is that it is makrooh (not sinful) to shave the beard. Is this correct?
How Ṣadaqat al-Fiṭr (commonly referred to as Fitrah) is determined in the Shāfiʿī and Ḥanafī madhhabs and the differences.
We are an Islamic School and wish to raise funds to construct a toilet block. We have been advised to hold a musical show. We are told that Mufti Kifayatullah has given a legal edict that permits the usage of riba [usury] for the construction of toilets. Would the same reasoning apply here as well? Also, should we be incorrect in our initial assumption, what if there were no other means to raise funds? Will this be deemed a case of darurah [necessity] and thereby render it permissible?
What is the Islamic ruling on copyright? Some authors and publishers spend a great deal of time painstakingly writing books on Islam, and this for them is obviously a means of rizq. Without their permission low quality versions of the same books are published and mass distributed around the world. Shop keepers sell these books at huge profits, justifying this by saying that it’s cheaper than buying the original versions. Some ‘ulama say all of this is okay because there is “no copyright” in Islam. Please clarify.
We see certain Shāfiʿī brothers after folding their hands after takbīr tahrīmah, they place it more towards the left side of the abdomen. Is there any mention of this in the fiqh kitābs?
I can’t see why our madhhab says that it is mustahab and not wajib for the nose to touch the ground in sujud, where the hadith is clear that an indication was made to the nose. Can you please guide me?
The Shāfiʿī position, of course, is that one should face the actual qiblah (ʿayn al-qiblah), while the Ḥanafīs take the more indulgent position of the general direction of the qiblah (jihat al-qiblah). With the Ḥanafīs having taken a position of greater latitude it becomes difficult to understand why the Shāfiʿī qiblah comes to be described as “wrong”, since one would naturally expect the narrower position to be subsumed within the broader one.
Concernes about “looking like a Muslim”: While the idea of someone “looking like a Muslim” might sometimes be based upon a perception of the spiritual effulgence of nur on that person’s face, it is also a fact that people often draw conclusions in that regard on grounds much less spiritual, even offensive at times.