Buying and selling lottery cards and coupons

Question: lottery card whose details are as follows. Each card comprises of many coupons. The customer pays 5 rupees to scratch the card. On some occasions, a..

Ruling On Booking Orders From A Restaurant Selling Permissible And Impermissible Food Items

Question: haram items such as pork, alcohol etc., when we receive orders containing these, we would have to record and relay them also. ..

Can Men Wear Shorts ?

Answer: haram and sinful for men to wear clothing revealing their knees or thighs. This ruling remains the same irrespective of hot weather or fashion trends...

Selling Good Quality Rice In Exchange For Lower Quality Rice

Answer: haram and a sin, even if there is a difference in their quality. There are two causes for usury: Qadr (Amount) - the items being sold are ma..

Ruling On Reciting The Quran In Graveyards

Answer: haram. If the intended meaning is makrūh taḥrīmī (prohibitive dislike), then it will be interpreted as meaning the reciter sitting on a grave or there..

Purchasing Gold Jewellery In Exchange For A Gold Bar

Answer: haram and usurious. However, if something has been added to one item of gold, such as the pearls that are added to jewellery, there will be no ne..

Verbally Expressing Intention For Salah Is This Bidah An Innovation ?

Answer: Hanafi literature clearly describe how it is desirable for an intention to be verbally expressed. Scholars prefer this, as it strengthens the inner in..

Letting Off Fireworks On The Occasion Of A Wedding And Shab-E-Barat

Answer: Haram because it is a waste of money and when fireworks are let off in the night, it is the act of causing Muslims pain besides wasting money because ..

Stitched clothes in Ihram and Halq out of Haram[حرم]

Question: Haram[حرم]. I wore stitched clothes for 12 hours and besides it I did not commit any such action which is not allowed in the state of Ihram. Then, out..

Buying And Selling Human Hair In Islam

Answer: Haram. For women, apart from the actual buying and selling element, there is the issue that even after such hair is removed from their head it is sti..