Question: My mother is ill and needs help, I would like to take off my hijab so I can get a job to help her. Can I do this? Answer: Hijab is a major obligation and one cannot ignore it simply to get a job. In any case, it is possible to have a job [...]

Question: Is a woman allowed to pluck her eyebrows? Answer: Plucking the eyebrows in sense of just removing the extra hairs is not Haraam. The permission for this rule is taken from the Word of God: وَلَا يُبْدِينَ زِينَتَهُنَّ إِلَّا مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا – “and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof” [...]

Question: I have a question, a question I am hoping that you have an answer for. Sheikh, I have made a really bad mistake. A mistake that I want forgiveness for… I am married to a man but we are still not living together, it is only ‘aqd. Hé made me pregnant and I decided that [...]

Question: I am planning on marrying my financee who is currently incarcerated. None of my family is Muslim so my own father cannot be my Wali. Is it permissible for his father to be my Wali? Answer: If a woman is a virgin, she usually needs the permission of her Wali (her father or paternal [...]

Question: I am pregnant. Is it permissible to find out if the child is a boy or girl before its birth? Answer: It is permissible to find out if the unborn child is a boy or a girl. There is no problem at all. Answered by: Sheikh Jafar Fathullah Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it [...]

Question: Is a nose piercing forbidden (for a female)? If so, why?  Also, what piercings are acceptable? Answer: If a nose piercing is considered a form of beautification according to the custom of your society than this is not allowed. The proof is the quranic ayah ordering women not to make apparent their beauty. Piercing in parts [...]

Question: What proofs are there from the Quran and Sunnah that all women must wear hijab outside of their houses in an Islamic State as is the case with Iran right now? What about non-Muslim women, slave women, etc. in the time of the Prophet (s) and Imams (a.s.)? Answer: 1. Islam is not a private [...]

Question: I would like to know if it is allowed for me to dance, I am only 11, I will dress appropriately and I plan on having a female coach. Is this okay? Answer: According to some Maraji’ (e.g. Ayatollah Sistani) it is not permissible for any person, including a female person, to dance, even [...]

Question: If a young female was married to a guy by her parents while she didn’t accept back in her country, and she came back to America, and she doesn’t want anything to do with him, what can she do? In surah An Nisa it is said that no female can be forced by her parent [...]

Question: My question is about hugging in islam. I am a student at university and each time I go to see my supervisor for my project, he always comes to hug me as a welcome even though I appear indifferent to that and no feelings arouse from what he does. Is it forbidden in Islam? This also happens even [...]