Family Matters

  Nasihah (Advice): A sudden glance   Jareer Bin Abdullah Radhiyallahu Anhu reports: “I asked Rasulullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam about the sudden glance (that is cast on the face of a non-Mahram). He commanded me to turn my eyes away.” (Muslim)   __________________________________________   Question and Answer:   A woman …

Can you please provide details of the burial for a stillborn (5 months). I understand that there is ghusl and wrap in one piece of cloth (not kafn). There is no janaza. But can you please provide details of the method of burial? Is there aqeeqah or Adhaan in the …

  Nasihah (Advice): Immodesty   Rasulullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam said: “When immodesty is found in a thing, it most certainly taints it, and when modesty is found in a thing, it most certainly beautifies it.” (Bukhari)   _________________________________   Question and Answer:   Should a wife make Hijaab from her …

  Nasihah (Advice): Taking care of one’s parents   Rasulullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam said: “May that person be disgraced. May that person be disgraced. May that person be disgraced – who has his parents – one or both of them – reaching old age and yet he does not …

  Nasihah (Advice): Seclusion of man and woman   Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said: “No person (man) should be alone with a woman except that there is a Mahram with her.” (Muslim)   _______________________________________________   Question and Answer:     Can my mother’s sister’s husband be a mahram to us …

  Question:   Is corporal punishment allowed and applicable according to Sharī`ah?   Answer: In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh. Corporal punishment refers to physical punishment inflicted on a child by an adult in authority.[1]The concept of corporal punishment has been …

  Nasihah (Advice): Ayatul Kursi after every Fardh Salaah:   Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (Radiyallahu Anhu) reports that the Prophet of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said: “Whoever recites Ayatul Kursi after the Fardh Salaah, the only barrier between him and paradise is death” (Nasai, Hadith #: 9848)   ____________________________________________________   Question …

Who is considered the Owner of Money and Gifts given to Young Children? I wanted to know who is considered the owner of the money and gifts given by family and friends to young children. Does it belong to the children or their parents?Secondly, what is the status of the money set aside by parents for their children? Can the parents use that money, or does it belong solely to the children and can only be used on them?

JAMIATUL ULAMA KZN DAILY Q&A Question and Answer: Q. The issue of illegitimate children, which born out of wedlock. Our imams in Russia often say in sermons that there is no grace (barakah) in people who born outside of marriage, from them cannot get good people. Is it true? I …

  Crisis in Syria The on-going internal conflict in Syria has left a country shattered and millions of lives torn apart. Join the Jamiat KZN in its campaign to bring much needed emergency relief to our suffering Syrian brethren. Jamiat members will personally oversee aid to the refugees in neighbouring …