what a person mentions while preaching is,or rather,should be explanation of Quran,such talk can be continued

I'm surprised by the use of the word *captive* in this hadith: > And indeed I order you to be good to the women, for **they are but captives with you** over whom you have no power than that, except if they come with manifest Fahishah (evil behavior). -- Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1163 [grade: sahih] Islam Q&A interprets the word *captive* semi-literally: "...a woman is like a slave or prisoner of her husband, and she cannot go out of his house except with his permission...". Although, perhaps this is an ultraconservative fatwa and shouldn't be taken too seriously. **Question**: In what sense are wives "captives" in the hadith "...they are but captives with you..."? Someone who's familiar with Arabic would have a more accurate idea of what the hadith says than me. I managed to find a few variations: > ... they are but like captives with you ... -- Jami` at-Tirmidh [grade: hasan] > > ... they are like captives in your hands ... -- Riyad as-Salihin > > ... you have taken them on the security of Allah ... -- Sahih Muslim 1218 a These don't really convey the meaning of "physical imprisonment" like in the first version. It sounds more like the wife is dependent on her husband, and thus he should be good to her (as in the first part of the sentence).

Salam, My family forced me to place my hand on Quran and say that I won't say that I want to marry a guy I like (my family said no because they think he isn't good looking enough). Although I tried to convince them that I cant take the oath because i dont feel good about it and my heart wont allow me, they threatened me that they would through acid on my face or won't let me pray again. So I was forced to place my hand on Quran and told them that I won't talk to you about it again.(I did that in frustration). I do not intend to commit to it. According to Quran 2.225 > "Allah does not impose blame upon you for what is unintentional in your oaths, but He imposes blame upon you for what your hearts have earned. And Allah is Forgiving and Forbearing" Based on this ayah, I want to know 1) Is a forced oath taken by placing hand on Quran valid? 2) If yes, what is the kaffara if I break it?

According to the following hadith: > 'Amr ibn al-Harith, the brother of the Umm al-Mu'minin, Juwayriyya bint al-Harith, said, "When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, died, he left neither dirham nor dinar nor slave nor slavegirl nor anything other than his white mule which he used to ride, his weapons, and some land that he made sadaqa for travellers." > > Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 3, hadith number 475 What happened to the slave girls of the prophet? Were they freed or sold or did they die?

Suppose I'm praying an obligatory prayer behind an Imam at a masjid. Suddenly my wudhu breaks (due to the passing of wind). Now, if I still keep standing in prayer will I incur sins? This should help you in answering the question. If there's any problem in my question please inform me. Thanks!

Surah Al-Maeda, Verse 54: > يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَن يَرْتَدَّ مِنكُمْ عَن دِينِهِ > فَسَوْفَ يَأْتِي اللَّهُ بِقَوْمٍ يُحِبُّهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَهُ أَذِلَّةٍ > عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَعِزَّةٍ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ... > >O you who believe! Whoever from among you turns back from his religion (Islam), Allah will bring a people whom He will love and they will love >Him; humble towards the believers, stern towards the disbelievers... So if اعز means stern and اذل means humble according to the Qur'an ayah, shouldn't we be asking the opposite? But we usually ask dua as, > اللهم أعز الإسلام والمسلمين، وأذل الشرك والمشركين

While listening to a seerah lecture about the battle of Mu'tah, the lecturer made an interesting statement. First, the setup (paraphrased): > Zayd ibn Thabit took the flag. Immediately, the Muslims were surrounded, and he was killed. Then Ja'far ibn Abi Talib took the flag, and again he was killed. Then Abdullah ibn Rawaha hesitated, said a poetry to himself, and took the flag, and was killed. Then, his statement (again paraphrased): > Because of his hesitation, he was given a slightly farther away bed (in Paradise) I believe he indicated that this statement is a Hadith of Rasulullah, although I cannot find any mention of it when I search online (in English). Please identify this source for me, along with the full statement, in at least English (bonus if you also get the Arabic version).

Assalamu alaikum I was reading an article written by Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl concerning the status of dogs and some of his arguments as to why he believes they are not as impure as some other scholars may state and I had a question regarding the exact translation and explanation for some of the references he made in his paper. For the most part, I was able to look up the exact sources online (in english translation) and cross-reference with his claims just to make sure that I could authenticate the points he made. However, for the sources that I list below, I have only been able to find the original Arabic script for these sources and unfortunately my knowledge in Arabic is very basic. I would appreciate it, if possible, if someone with access to these sources could explain what these sources say and if possible, explain whether Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is using these narrations correctly. - al-Mubarakafuri, Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi, 8:74; Al-Nawawi, Sahih Muslim, 9-10:478, 480, 483. - Al-Nawawi, Sahih Muslim, 3-4:465. - Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, Fath al-Bari, 1:334. If need the original article: http://scholarofthehouse.org/dinistrandna.html Jazakallah khair

Sahih al-Bukhari Volume 9, Book 84, Number 64 >Narrated 'Ali: > Whenever I tell you a narration from Allah's Apostle, by Allah, I would rather fall down from the sky than ascribe a false statement to him, but if I tell you something between me and you (not a Hadith) then it was indeed a trick (i.e., I may say things just to cheat my enemy). No doubt I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "During the last days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, where-ever you find them, kill them, for who-ever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection." Read this for the first time today. Is it saying that near the end of times, there will be hypocrites among the ummah so we will be allowed to kill them and get a rewarded for it ??

I know that it's verily haram to eat pork or anything that is derived from pig, but what about touching something that may possibly be derived from a part of a pig and sometimes you just cannot avoid these because you didn't know? For example if a hat I'm wearing is made of something that is derived from pig (other than the hair of the pig), and pig is considered as somewhat najis (impure), then is it not sufficient for me to just cleanse myself by taking a bath? Or if I use a carbonless paper that contains gelatin that is derived from pig, is it haram to use the paper as a means of something other than eating? Just for writing for example yet it has to touch the skin in order for me to write. Even worse, is it haram if I use a soap bar containing a chemical that is derived from pig for bathing? But non of those things I eat. Even if it did entered my mouth it was involuntary and how would I know that a small amount of the derived pig content has actually entered my mouth or not? How would I know if the producer of the product is telling the truth or not about its content? How would I know if the Halal Agency that gave the accreditation did not miss anything 100% at all? They are all human after all. If the meat of swine is impure and anything that touches the meat (pig skin) is also impure, then logically thinking the air that surrounds the swine also becomes impure because it has touched its skin ? impurity after impurity, if that makes any sense? Don't you know that pigs can pass the wind too? Can you say that touching its skin is haram and smelling its fart is ok? Or even smelling its meat, is it ok? So is it haram to even go near a pig/swine? Is it forbidden to live in an area that is near a swine? Is it forbidden to live in a planet that has swine in it? Just to what extent did the Prophet asked us to avoid it? Are we really going in the right direction with these questions? Then can you guarantee that the air that you breathe there is in fact.... Halal? You would then have to spend all day long just to verify every volume of air you breath does not contain the fart of pork without any time to do anything else. I don't believe Islam is supposed to make your daily obligations that difficult for you even if your intention was to perfect your deen. I never heard of the Prophet SAW doing that which I had described. But I could be wrong. Otherwise, I think you would be dead.... if you are forbidden to inhale air that is not guaranteed..... Halal. Btw how did the Prophet SAW and His Companions verify that the food that they ate given from other people does not contain any "piggy" stuff without the DNA Technology that we are given today? Because as you know rejecting the food given while you are invited to dinner would be considered very rude to the host. Just because you were unsure if it is halal or not while the host insisted that it doesn't contain any haram food. The real Question is, did the Prophet SAW ever recommends to check EVERY SINGLE TIME at EVERY SINGLE OCCASION for possibility of pig derived ingredients in a food or Drink? If Yes, How did he recommend to do it? do you think that just by asking the company/person that made the food/drink, will guarantee that none of its content is derived from pig? Do you think that just because it is labeled halal it is a guarantee that nothing in it is derived from pork? Even those agencies can be wrong sometimes you know. Then if your not 100% sure that it doesn't contain anything derived from pork then shouldn't you avoid it anyway? and was it for foods only that he recommended to do so or is it also for other stuffs beside foods and drinks?

I happened to see this TED talk by Lesley Hazleton. She is an agnostic Jew and without bias she explains that Quran doesn't speak of 72 virgins. It is simply a misguided verse of the Quran. The verse no 33 of Sūratl-naba. I am a bit perplexed here. 1. In her speech she says, Quran doesn't speak of a number. 2. She also says, Quran doesn't speak of bosomly shaped women. Is that a misinterpretation of the Quran?

Are the Zoroastrians\Majus\Parsis from the People of the Book?? Can we eat their food and marry their women as we are allowed to do with Ahl Kitab? Zoroastrians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism **Note:** I have asked this question previously but it was closed as duplicate of this question: https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/28869/are-zoroastrians-mentioned-as-one-of-the-people-of-the-book-in-the-quran However that answer does not address my concerns at all. The answer there is "we don't know" but even if the Quran does not address it there must be laws that are derived from other sources.

Is this hadith authentic? Abu Tha’labah Al-Khushani may Allaah be pleased with him narrated that the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) said, “Allaah has ordained obligations, so do not abandon them, and He has set limits, so do not exceed them, and He has prohibited (certain) things, so do not violate them, and He has left (certain) things (unmentioned) out of mercy to you, and not out of forgetfulness, so do not pursue them.” [At-Tabaraani, Ad-Daaraqutni and al-Bayhaqi]

There are two main aspects of a hadith that make reliable (sahih): its narrator chain (sanad) and its content (matn). See Hadith studies at Wikipedia. **Question**: What is an example of a hadith that is sahih in chain but not sahih in content? I'm not sure if this is possible. Such a hadith might fall under the classification of *shadh* or *mu’allal*: > ... The statement that “**the hadith should not be shadh” (irregular)**“ excludes from the sahih hadith the shadh report where a trustworthy narrator goes against the narration of narrators who are more reliable than him. Their statement: “**It should not be mu’allal (defective)**“ excludes from the sahih hadith the mu’allal report which has a defect. The ‘illah (defect) consists of a weakness in the hadith, causing its rejection, a matter which appears to the critics when collecting and examining the various transmission routes of the hadith. > khilafah.com The closest I've found is the following (and this may actually be an example, but I'm not clear on this): > If there was to have a Prophet after me, it would have been 'Umar bin Al-Khattab. > Jami` at-Tirmidhi [grade: hasan] This was described as "odd (munkar)" on Islam Q&A ; they present the hadith as: > Imam Ahmad (17405), at-Tirmidhi (3686) and al-Haakim (4495) narrated via Mishrah ibn Haa ‘aan, from ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Aamir (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) say: “If there were to be a Prophet after me, it would be ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab.” The scholars differed concerning this hadith. It was classed as saheeh by al-Haakim, and adh-Dhahabi agreed with him. It was classed as hasan by at-Tirmidhi and by al-Albaani in Saheeh at-Tirmidhi.

The Prophet's 11 wives are: 1. Khadijah ◊,‡ 2. Sawda ◊,‡ 3. Aisha 4. Hafsa ‡ 5. Zaynab bint Khuzayma ‡ 6. Umm Salama ◊,‡ 7. Zaynab bint Jahsh ‡ 8. Juwayriyah ‡ 9. Ramlah ‡ 10. Safiyah ‡ 11. Maymunah . (And some contested wives: https://islam.stackexchange.com/q/37553/17163). The footnotes are based on what's at the Wikipedia pages: ◊ Had a child (or children) prior to marriage with Muhammad. ‡ Had a husband prior to marriage with Muhammad. (If I've done my homework correctly.) Surely Aisha was too young for a prior marriage when she married Muhammad. But I'm unsure about Maymunah. So... **Question**: Did Maymunah bint al-Harith only ever marry Prophet Muhammad? A former husband is not listed on her Wikipedia page . Islam.Wikia.com write: "After the Prophet's death, (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) Maymuna continued to live in Medina for another forty years, dying at the age of eighty..." which means she married Muhammad at around 40 years of age.

I know part of Qur'an was revealed in Makka and remaining was revealed in Madina. However, some surahs of the Qur'an (moshaf) are declares to be "makki" or "madani", based on revelation. So I want to know: who defined the terms makki and madani?

So I live in KSA, and I arrived late at the mosque and I joined the jamat at the second sujood of the second rakat, so after I finished two rakat the one next to me started his 3rd rakat I became confused and out of fear (that my salah becomes void) started my 3rd rakat and then 4th (as stated if you miss the two rakats of jum'ah you must pray 4 rakats). So can you please help me, I'm a little confused?????

Suppose i am married with a earning wife. We both earn the same. I am only son of my parents and she is also only issue of her parents. Now as i have to look after her expenses and also my children i can hardly give 10% of my earnings to my parents. But my wife gives all her salary to her parents as she need not to give any money to run our family according to Islam. So i cant help my parents as much as she can. Isn't this a injustice to me or my parents? Why my parents will get lesser from me just because almighty gave them a son not a daughter?

I read Hadith sunnah prayers are : 2 before fajr 4 before zuhr 2 after 2 after Maghrib 2 after Isha But I was taught those and **also 4 rakat before asr and Isha and when I go to the mosque at those times people do this too.** which I assumed were sunnah and I have been praying them with the sunnah intention What to do? I’m confused

The Wikipedia article on Ishmael and sacrifice says that "As Abraham attempts to slay Ishmael, either the knife is turned over in his hand or copper appears on Ishmael to prevent the death and God tells Abraham that he has fulfilled the command." There is no reference in this story and I do not find this anywhere in the Koran, so could you tell me the source of the narrative?