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  Support IslamQA  Please contribute generously in order to ensure the continuity of our website InshaAllah. Contribute He married a woman without a guardian  26-08-2002          Question 7989 I am in a foreign land and married a Christian girl who is also a foreigner in that country. Both of us do not have any relatives or friends or contacts in that country. I proposed to her and she accepted so I read the marriage statements and she accepted and than I read the marriage statement for my acceptance. I forgot the Mehr in statement but later paid some amount to her. There was no guardian for her as she is adult and independent and we could not arrange any witness. Question is:   1. Whether this is a valid religious marriage and is it not sin in Islam as we do not care for the social or legal aspect because we are foreigners. In other word we married keeping in view our God and do not want to be punished by God on day of judgment. (We lived li...

  Is it permissible for a husband to give a gift to his wife and not to the rest of his heirs?  29-08-2006          Question 72326 Does the wife have the right to ask her husband to transfer half of his personal property to her? The husband is refusing to do that on the grounds that it is a trick to deny the inheritance to those to whom Allaah has granted it. My Lord has been testing me with childlessness for 19 years. He did agree to give me an apartment as an unconditional gift. Please note that I am his only wife and his parents are still alive. Kind Treatment of Spouses Related topic Answer Praise be to Allah. In question no.  72320  you told us that your husband has agreed to put the apartment in your name, and that your mother refused to put the apartment in your husband’s name or your name. We explained that there is no sin on your husband in that, and that your mother has no right to stop him from putting the apartment in your name....

  Support IslamQA  Please contribute generously in order to ensure the continuity of our website InshaAllah. Contribute Ruling on differentiating between children in gift-giving  24-10-2001          Question 22169 Is it permissible for me to give something to one of my children and not to his brothers? What if that is done for a reason, such as his good attitude or his obeying his parents? Gifts and Presents Related topic Answer Praise be to Allah. The scholars are agreed that it is prescribed in Islam to treat children fairly when it comes to gift-giving; they should not single out one or some of them and not give to others.  Ibn Qudaamah said in al-Mughni (5/666): “There is no dispute among the scholars that it is mustahabb to treat children equally and that it is makrooh to differentiate between them.”  But there are differences of opinion concerning the ruling on differentiating between them. The strongest views in terms of evidence ...

 Ruh, Soul, Heart, Mind, and Body in the Perspective of Islamic Educational Psychology  Wahyudi Setiawan1 , M. Tajab2 , Moh. Toriqul Chaer3 Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo, Indonesia1 STIT Muhammadiyah Pacitan, Indonesia2 STIT Islamiyah Karya Pembangunan Ngawi, Indonesia3 {wahyudisetiawan089@gmail.com1 } Abstract. The embodiment of himself as the perfect man is part of the ultimate purpose of life. God as The Almighty gave life to human beings at once the guidelines so that people can become perfect beings. Islam became a conducting ordinary human life in the world hereafter to rediscover the nature itself. In the attainment ofthe perfection of the social life, then he must learn to understand and execute rights and obligations between spirit, soul, heart, intellect, and as a unit of the component in the form of a human being. Through the study of Eastern and Western scientific literature by using content analysis to understand existing data, this study is expected to genera...

  What is the difference between nafs and ruh? 14th January 2022 0 Share Last Updated on 15th January 2022 Someone asked Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V aa  whether  nafs  and  rooh  were the same. Huzoor aa , in his letter dated 20 October 2020, granted the following reply: “The words  rooh  and  nafs  appear in various places in the Holy Quran carrying different meanings. The word  rooh  denotes the Word of God, angels, Gabriel as , prophets and that soul which appears in the human body at a certain time by divine command. The word  nafs , on the other hand, is used for life, breath, a person, a being with a soul, heart, a being or consciousness etc. “Linguistically, the term  rooh  is used to denote that thing by means of which the souls [ nufoos ] remain alive i.e. life. Likewise, the term  rooh  is also used for breath, revelation and inspiration, Gabriel, the matter of prophethood, and the judgment and ...

  Support IslamQA  Please contribute generously in order to ensure the continuity of our website InshaAllah. Contribute Ruling on working as a defence lawyer  24-06-2001          Question 9496 When working as a defence lawyer, one may have to support and defend evil, because the defence lawyer tries to prove the innocence of the guilty person whom he is defending. Is the income of a defence lawyer who does that haraam? Are there any Islamic conditions attached to a person working as a defence lawyer? Ruling on jobs Related topic Answer Praise be to Allah. Defence also means protection, and if a person defends and protects evil then undoubtedly this is haraam, because it means that he is falling into that which Allaah has forbidden: “but do not help one another in sin and transgression” [al-Maa'idah 5:2 – interpretation of the meaning] But if he protects and defends good, then this is a praiseworthy kind of protection as enjoined in the aayah: “Hel...