Category : Innovations

  • Is it bidah to read dhikr in congregation on a certain day?

    16 Feb 2022 Ref-No#: 4348

    My mother gets out family to sit together and join a zoom call with a sheikh and a few hundred people every Thursday without fail and pray a certain dhikr. It lasts about an hour and has some tasbeeh and quran but also has a part where they chant allahu and then just Hu hu Hu hu Allahu. Is this a...


  • Bid’ah

    30 Nov 2021 Ref-No#: 4065

    Praying Ishraq , awwabin , tahujjud and salatul shukr DAILY and fasting on EVERY monday and thursday in a year bid’ah? ...


  • Married to a Sufi

    30 Aug 2021 Ref-No#: 3397

    As salaamu alaikum, I hope this message finds you well. I write to you regarding a matter that affects me. My husband very much follows the Sufi way of life and has integrated it into the Deen. By doing so, he believes in the concept of intercession and that the deceased auliya can hear him and w...


  • kufaar Eid

    08 Jun 2019 Ref-No#: 1895

    As salamu alaykum respected Mufti, can you give a rulling about the shariyyah about of these two following narrations and some comment of our past and contemporary ulama from the four madhahib ,jazakallah khayran 1. اجتنبوا أعداء الله في عيدهم “Refrain f...


  • Attending gatherings wherein bid’aat take place

    11 Jun 2018 Ref-No#: 723

    As Salaamu Alaykum Kindly advise, What does a person do in the case of being forced to attend and assist at a gathering wherein bid’ah (salaami) etc. takes place? His situation is such that it is a very close relatives function and by him not attending it creates problem...


  • Fasting on 15th Shaabaan

    25 Apr 2018 Ref-No#: 637

    Salam, What is the ruling of fasting on 15th Shaabaan? Is it Sunnah to fast on the 15th of Shaabaan? Or is it a Bidah? ...


  • Microphone in Salah

    27 Feb 2018 Ref-No#: 323

    ssalamualaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatooh There appears to be no practical requirement for a microphone to be used for certain Salah in Masjid, in particular Fajr where, unfortunately, the congregation is small. Therefore I have 5 SPECIFIC questions: 1. Is it necessary from a Sha...