Question ID 608 - 2013-07-19 19:32:54
Question:
Salam Alaikum, My office management has organized a picnic on 10 of Ramazan (Saturday, 20th July ) I told them about my inability to participate due to Ramazan fasting ( and also it is Wafat of Hazarat Khadija A.S.) but they are insisting to the limit of forcing me saying that it is mandatory for all. All have been instructed to treat this as their office duty. Request your opinion on what extent I can resist the pressure.
Answer:
Travelling during the month of Ramadhan is Makrooh (disliked) if it is
before 23rd of the month. If you are forced to travel, then you are allowed
because every makrooh is allowed.
Wassalam.
Mohammad al-Musawi
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Question ID 540 - 2013-06-19 07:48:50
Question:
We have been trying to have a child since then and have gone through a lot of medical treatments to get a child but have been very unsuccessful. Our only option now is getting a child by using a surrogate mother. My wife's elder sister (my sister-in-law) is willing to be a surrogate mother for us by using IVF (IN VITRO FERTILIZATION). She is married and has three kids.My question is- Is this allowed in Islam? Me, My wife and her sister all of us do the Taqleed of Grand Ayatullah al-Uzma Seyyid Ali al-Sistani.
Answer:
It is not allowed to put your semen in the body of any woman who is not
your wife even through IVF. You are not allowed to marry your wife's sister
because she is married, and even if she was not married, marrying to real
sisters at the same time is not allowed in Islam.
Wassalam.
Mohammad al-Musawi
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Question ID 627 - 2013-07-26 06:07:04
Question:
the ill treatment that umar did with Bibi fatema because of which she lost her baby mohsin n consequently died can you please give refrence from sunni books specally from muslim and bukhari please give hades number in english please give as much as possible. need for debate as urgent as possible.god bless you and help you in your work and me he grant us all Success?thank you
Answer:
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.*(January 2009)*
According to the sources, following the death of
Muhammad
, Abu Bakr
Umar
to gain the *shura* (consensus) of the community that Abu
Bakr
become the *caliph* (leader) over the Islamic *ummah* (community).
According to Shi'a
attended the funeral of Muhammad, Abu Bakr and Umar attained the consensus
of the community. As Ali was burying Muhammad, he learned that Abu Bakr had
attained communal consensus. Fatimah, Ali, and their supporters maintained
that Ali should be the leader over the Islamic community because of
Muhammad's statement at Ghadir
Khumm
.[1]
]
Event
Veccia Vaglieri
article *Fatima*, in the *Encyclopedia of
Islam
* chronicles the event as such: "Fatima, a timid woman who had never taken
part in political matters, found herself indirectly involved in some of the
events which followed the death of the Prophet. After his election, Abu
Bakr made his way with some companions towards Fatima's house, where a
number of Ansar and of Ali's supporters had assembled. The newly-elected
Khalifa
homage of these dissidents also, but Ali went forward to meet him with
sword drawn, and Fatima, when her husband had been disarmed by Umar and the
party was preparing to enter the house, raised such cries and threatened so
boldly to uncover her hair that Abu Bakr preferred to
withdraw.[3]
There
are other accounts of the same episode: Fatima saw in Umar's hand a brand,
and asked him if he intended to set fire to her door because of his
hostility to her.[4]
In
one book, al-Imama wa 'l-siyasa (which is certainly very early, even though
the attribution to Ibn Qutayba is wrong), the episode is related with more
serious details: Umar really had evil intentions; he had wood brought and
threatened to burn the house with everything in it. When he was asked,
"Even if Fatimah is there?", he replied in the affirmative. Then those who
were in the house came out and rendered the homage demanded=E2=8E=AFexcept =
for Ali.
Fatimah, appearing at the door, reproached them: "You have left the body of
the Apostle of God with us and you have decided among yourselves without
consulting us, without respecting our rights!" When Abu Bakr and Umar
repeated their attempts to make Ali comply, she is said to have cried out,
"O father! O Apostle of God! What evils we have suffered at the hands of
Umar and Abu Bakr after your death!" Veccia Vaglieri latter adds: "We have
spent some time on these episodes because even if they have been expanded
by invented details, they are based on fact."
According to Denise L. Soufi:
((...traditions discussing her involvement in the events which took place
after the death of the Prophet seem to contain some truth despite their
partisan biases. This is due to the fact that the Sunnis were unable to
completely suppress what was so obviously detrimental to their
reconstruction of religious history: namely, that Fatima quarreled with abu
Bakr over his seizure of the caliphate and the Prophet's properties, that
she never forgave hime for his actions and that ther death was kept secret
for some time, probably at her request, in order to prevent him from
presiding over her funeral rites. What is ironic is that this small window
into the character of Fatima has been downplayed or ignored by Sunnis and
inflated and overemphasized by Shiis...))
[5]
Tabari cites Abu Bakr on his deathbed saying that he wished he had never
opened Fatima's house to anything, even though they had locked it as a
gesture of defiance, implying that her house may have been broken into
forced open.[6]
Edward Gibbon
and Fall of the Roman Empire* state: After the simple inauguration of
Abubeker, he was obeyed in Medina, Mecca, and the provinces of Arabia: the
Hashemites alone declined the oath of fidelity; and their chief, in his own
house, maintained, above six months, a sullen and independent reserve;
without listening to the *threats of Omar*, who attempted to consume with *
fire* the habitation of the daughter of the
apostle.[7]
Historical SourcesIbn Abi Shayba
Ibn Abi Shayba
(235
AH/ 849 CE), a prominent scholar of
hadith
one of the teachers of
al-Bukhari
narrates in his book *al-Musanaf*that:
=E2=80=9CUmar came to the house of Fatima and said: "O' Daughter of the Pro=
phet of
God! I swear by God that we love no one more than your father, and after
him we love no one more than you. Yet I swear by God that that won't stop
me from gathering these people and commanding them to burn this house down!
[8]
=80=9Dibn
Qutayba
Ibn Qutaybah
*al-Imama wa al-Siyasa* writes:
=E2=80=9CUmar said: 'I swear by He who controls the life of Umar, either yo=
u come
out or I will burn this house down!' The people said: 'Abu'l Hafs, Fatima
is also in this house'. Umar replied: 'Even if she
is...'[9]
=E2=80=9Dal-Baladhuri
al-Baladhuri
97
AH/ 892 CE) in *Ansab al-Ashraf* writes:
=E2=80=9C"Abu Bakr sent for Ali so that he can give alligance but he didn't=
. So
Umar came [to the house] and Fatima met him at the door. She said: 'ibn
Khatab you want to burn my door down?' Umar replied: 'Yes, in order to
strengthen the religion your father
brought.'[10]
=E2=80=9DHistory of al-Tabari
The historian Muhammad ibn Jarir
al-Tabari
(923
CE) in his Tarikh
[11]
writes:
=E2=80=9CUmar Ibn al-Khattab came to the house of Ali.
Talhah
and Zubayr
immigrants
also in the house. Umar cried out: "By God, either you come out to render
the oath of allegiance, or I will set the house on fire." al-Zubair came
out with his sword drawn. As he stumbled (upon something), the sword fell
from his hand so they jumped over him and seized him."=E2=80=9D
=E2=80=94al-Tabari
Tarikh
The translator=E2=80=99s commentary on this event provides the following ba=
ckground:
*=E2=80=9CAlthough the timing of the events is not clear, it seems that =E2=
=80=98Ali and
his group came to know about the Saqifah after what had happened there. At
this point, his supporters gathered in Fatima=E2=80=99s house. Abu Bakr and=
=E2=80=98Umar,
fully aware of =E2=80=98Ali=E2=80=99s claims and fearing a serious threat f=
rom his
supporters, summoned him to the mosque to swear the oath of allegiance.
=E2=80=98Ali refused, and so the house was surrounded by an armed band led =
by Abu
Bakr and Umar, who threatened to set it on fire if =E2=80=98Ali and his sup=
porters
refused to come out and swear allegiance to Abu Bakr. The scene grew
violent and Fatima was
furious."[12]
*
Sulaym b. Qays
The book Kitab Sulaym b. Qays al-Hilali, which was written by a companion
of 'Ali.[13]
It
describes 'Umar's attack, and describes how Fatimah, the daughter of
Prophet Muhammad
allegedly beaten, in the attack, resulting in her
miscarriage.[14]
al-Mas'udi
The book Ithb=C4=81t al-Wa=E1=B9=A3=C4=AByyah, composed in the third Islami=
c century[*citation
needed
attributed to the historian
al-Mas'udi
but this is highly doubted.[*citation
needed
*]
The author writes:
=E2=80=9CThey attacked [Ali], burned his door and took him out by force and=
pressed
[Fatima] against the door until she miscarried Muhsin.=E2=80=9D
He also writes:
=E2=80=9CWhile addressing the people Abu Bakr said: =E2=80=9C=E2=80=A6of th=
e three mistakes that I
committed, one of them is that during my time Fatima's house was broken
into..=E2=80=9D[15]
=E2=80=9DIbn Abd Rabboh
Ibn Abed Rabboh
*Al-Iqd ul-Fareed*,[16]
writes:
=E2=80=9CAs for Ali, Abbas
and
Zubair, they stayed in the house of Fatima until Abu Bakr sent Umar to get
them out of Fatima's house and told him: if they refuse, fight them. He
took a torch to burn the house and Fatima met him and told him: are you
here to burn our house? He said: yes, or you enter what the Ummah has
entered (i.e swear allegiance).=E2=80=9DTarikh al-Ya=E2=80=99qoubi=E2=80=9C=
=E2=80=9C..When Abu Bakr and
Umar heard the news that a party of the Ansar and the Muhajirin have
gathered with =E2=80=98Ali at the house of the daughter of the Prophet, the=
y went
with a group of people and attacked the
house=E2=80=A6=E2=80=9D[17]
=E2=80=9DShahrastani
Al-Shahrastani
documents in his book *Al-Milal wa
al-Nihal
*[18]
That a troublesome theologian called al-Na=E1=BA=93=E1=BA=93=C4=81m (d. 231=
AH) "increased his
lying deception" and said:
=E2=80=9CUmar kicked Fatima's stomach on the day of allegiance until she mi=
scarried
and he yelled: "Burn her house and whoever is in it" and in it were Ali,
Fatima, al-Hasan
al-Husayn
.
Ref: Wikipedia=E2=80=9D
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Question ID 524 - 2013-06-10 13:32:30
Question:
assalaam alaikum warenatullah alaih .. is Homemopathy is permitted in islam, while we know that Homemopathic medicines are prepared using alcohol ... JazaakAllah
Answer:
Yes, Homoeopathy is allowed.
Many Ulama say that such alcohol used in medicines is not Najis.
Wassalam.
Mohammad al-Musawi
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Question ID 610 - 2013-07-20 08:19:26
Question:
salaam u alaikum, is there anything in Islam that says men are not allowed to marry older women, or its not recommended to, someone told me that it causes the man to age quicker ..
Answer:
It is allowed in Islam to marry a woman who is elder than you if both of
you agree to the marriage and think that you both will implement the
Islamic rules.
Wassalam.
Mohammad al-Musawi
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