Regarding Newborn and Mother

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Hajjah Naziha Adil

Questions:

My questions are regarding newborn babies and new mothers:

Q1. Is it true that relatives are prohibited from visiting a baby after maghreb, if coming from outside the house?

Answer: No it is not prohibited.

Q2. Is it also true that during the 40 days women have to remain at home?

Answer: Yes they do so in order that they heal faster. However they should go out for doctor’s visits and any health-related issue.

Q3. Is it true women who have just given birth should have a shower on the 6th day, 12th day, 20th day and so on?

Answer: Yes. It is better for the woman for healing and to keep herself warm if in a cold country.

Q4. The women are then given new clothes and gifts on these days?

Answer: No, it is not necessary. Anytime is fine to accept presents.

Q5. What does Islam have to say about the newborn babies as a whole?

Answer: the mother and the baby should stay at home for 40 days, this is what Shaykh Nazim requests his family to do, unless there is an urgent necessity of going out.

Hajjah Naziha

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Picking Up Child During Prayer

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Hajjah Naziha Adil

Question:

As salamu aleikum,

I have a child who is a toddler now and she likes to walk over my prayer rug when I pray. Is my prayer still valid and can I take her in my arms when I pray and put her down in sajda?

Wa salam

Answer:

wa `alaykum salam,

No you can’t, do your sajdah to the side of your child.

Hajjah Naziha

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Dress for Women in West

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Hajjah Naziha Adil

Question:

salaam alaykum wr wb

Is there any particular dress code for Muslim ladies that they should Islamically wear? In my case I wear a full jilbab/kaftan so im covered to my feet and wear a hijab at all times when I’m out of the house. But is it important to dress in a jilbab?

Is it allowed for women to wear things like jeans, shirts, skirts etc. which is common these days?

Jazakaallah

Answer:

wa `alaykum salaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakutuh,

Women should not dress like men in Islam, but these days in many societies they do wear pants. As long as your form of dressing is loose and decent and does not show the shape of the body, then it is fine.

Hajjah Naziha

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Paying for Cousin’s Hajj

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

Question:

salaam

My cousin who wants to give money for his parents to do hajj but he yet has not done it himself. Is this permissible?

Answer:

`alaykum salam,

Your cousin’s monetary gift to his parents is birr al-walidayn (doing goodness for your parents) and sadaqa (charity), types of worship that are encouraged in absolute terms and are therefore valid and meritorious regardless of what the money is put to, and even more meritorious if it helps them fulfill the fard of Hajj.

If, however, they have already fulfilled the obligatory Hajj and he has not yet fulfilled it, and he has no other monetary resource to use for that purpose, and they do not need the money for anything else, then he is more entitled to that money for the purpose of fulfilling it. He is entitled to delay it, but if he were to die without performing it after having been able to, he would die in disobedience.

Hajj Gibril

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To What Does “Allah” Refer for Pre-Islamic Arabs?

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

Question:

Sayidina Mouhammad’s (s) full name is : Mouhammad ibn AbdAllah ibn Muttalib ibn Hachim. (s) His father’s name is Abd-Allah, but he’s father died before Islam  revelation. So when the pre-Islamic people where using this name to which Allah are they doing reference?

Answer:

Several pre-Islamic men were named `Abd Allah, such as `Abd Allah b. Jad`an, the Prophet’s business partner `Abd Allah b. al-Sa’ib, the great poets `Abd Allah b. Salma and `Abd Allah b. Hubal Akhu Bani Salaman, `Abd Allah b. al-Harith b. Sakhbara the first husband of Umm Ruman (wife of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq), Abu Bakr himself was named `Abd Allah b. `Uthman… The Arabs before Islam knew that Allah is the Creator: “And if you ask them who created them, they will surely say: Allah. How then are they turned away?” (Q 43:87),  “And if you ask them: Who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely answer: al-`Aziz al-`Alim (The Exalted, the Knower), created them” (43:9, cf. 10:31), but they associated other gods with  Him: “They worship beside Allah that which neither hurts them nor profits them, and they say: These are our intercessors with Allah” (10:18, cf. 29:65 and 39:3).

Hajj Gibril

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Perfume Containing Alcohol

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

Question:

Asalamalaykom.

Is perfume for (men/woman) containing alcohol allowed?

JazakAllah

Answer:

`Alaykum as-Salam,

Some major Hanafi scholars of this century, including Muhammad Bakhit al-Muti`i of Egypt and Badr ad-Din al-Hasani of Damascus, have given formal legal opinions that cologne and perfumes containing alcohol are pure (tahir) because they are not produced or intended as intoxicants.  Mawlana Shaykh Nazim follows that position; he considers them pure and uses cologne. Shaykh `Isa al-Himyari, a Shafi`i scholar, has written a book to that effect also.

Hajj Gibril

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Seeking the Means in Invocation

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

Question:

as salamu alikum

Can you explain to me the invocation (du’a) of the awliyah in light of the Qur’an and Sunna and its purpose. I know any tawwasul is a need but how and why do we invoke the  awliyah and saints I dont quite understand.

jazakumallahu khayrin,  wasalam

Answer:

`Alaykum as-Salam,

The way is to say: “O Allah, we ask you by So-and-so” as in the hadith of our liegelord `Umar in Sahih al-Bukhari: “O Allah! We would use our Prophet as a means to You and You then sent us rain; now we use our Prophet’s uncle as a means to You, therefore send us rain!”

Allah Most High ordered us in the Qur’an to seek the means to him. Just as in the hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari of the three men blocked in a cave who supplicated Allah Most High by mentioning their good deeds as a wasila to Him, then they were miraculously unblocked, similarly we may also supplicate Him by the honor He has granted the righteous, at their forefront the Holy Prophet who is the imam of the righteous. He himself taught us to do this is several narrations such as the du`a of the blind man, the du`a he made while burying Fatima bint Asad (the wife of Abu Talib ibn `Abd al-Mutallib), and the du`a of walking to the mosque. He also said “Your du`a is suspended between heaven and earth until you invoke blessings on your Prophet.”

For further reading see http://mac.abc.se/~onesr/d/itp.html#twss

Hajj Gibril Haddad

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Dream: To See Prophet Jesus (as)

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Eshaykh Staff

Dream:

Assalamu’alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

I had a dream when In the days I really wanted to see sayidina Isa alahi Salam in the dream you told me  to see the only way to see him is to obedient to your mother.

Is there any way I can see sayidina Isa alahi Salam in my dream?

Interpretation:
Be obedient to your mother, as the outer meaning of the dream indicates.

To see Sayyidina `Isa (as) in a dream, as you mentioned Shaykh Hisham said to obey your mother, which in spiritual meaning means “keep the way of our Prophet (s)” who is more dear than mother and father to us, and this can only be accomplished by connection with your shaykh and taking on his spiritual qualities by daily keeping connection with him, and asking his personality and presence to dress you.

Mention of Sayyidina `Isa (as) is also to make you aware we are so near to his appearance when he descends from heavens at the White Minaret in Damascus, at Fajr time where Sayyidina al-Mahdi (as) will be leading the prayer. That dream is a sign to you to prepare for the tremendous events of the Last Days which Muslims are expecting very soon based on the many signs and indications the Prophet (s) mentioned in authentic hadith, and that have already come to pass.

w’Allahu `alam.

Staff

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40 Days Seclusion after Childbirth

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Hajjah Naziha Adil

Question:

My question is regarding newborn babies and new mothers:

Is it true that during the 40 days (after giving birth) women have to remain at home?

Answer:

wa `alaykum salam,

Yes, it is the teaching of our shaykh, Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, for the mother to remain at home, isolated, for the first 40 days after delivery. The purpose of this is to give her body time to heal from the extreme stress of pregnancy and delivery. Staying at home is thus a protection for the baby and time for rejuvenation for the mother.

Hajjah Naziha Adil

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Wiping Over Socks in Ablution

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

Question:

Assalamu Alaikum dear shaykh,

Bismillahirrahmanirraheem. Alhamdulillahi rabbil aalameen. Allahumma salli`ala sayyidina Muhammad.

Can we wipe over the socks during ablution? I normally take ablution in the morning before I put on the socks, then I wipe over it for the ablutions I perform later? I heard that it is valid for 24 hours. Please advice.

Jazakallah khair!

Answer:

`Alaykum as-Salam

The act you describe is valid in the Hanbali madhhab over what they call jawrab safeeq, i.e. dense socks. This means you need to know all the integrals and conditions of wudu‘ and salat according to that school: you should know, for example, that without beginning with intention, or without sniffing the water and swirling it in your mouth during wudu‘, or without keeping strict order of the acts of wudu‘, or without close continuity between those acts, wudu‘ becomes invalid; that it is wajib to begin by saying Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim; and that without a du`a of forgiveness between the two prostrations, salat becomes invalid. Etc. Otherwise, for precaution, you should wipe over waterproof socks (khuffs) only, which is accepted in all four madhahib.

(see also: “wiping over wig”).

Hajj Gibril

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