Family, Women & Children · Subtopic
Women’s Issues & Work
2,848 fatawa from 9 South African Darul Iftas on Women’s Issues & Work, part of Family, Women & Children. Newest first; every fatwa links to the page where its Darul Ifta published it.
Subtopics are grouped from each Darul Ifta’s own categories and the fatwa titles, so the count is approximate.
By Darul Ifta
Women’s Issues & Work fatawa — page 27 of 72
- Mufti Online19 Jul 2018
Marrying one's mother's aunt
Is it permissible to marry one's mother's aunt in Islam?
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online18 Jul 2018
Listening to Quran in the state of haidh
Is it haram for a female who is on her monthly cycle to listen to Quran? I know you can’t pray or read or touch the Quran... but what about…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online18 Jul 2018
Woman bleeding more than ten days
I am very confused as to when I should be praying again after menses. My bleeding goes beyond 10 days every month. It doesn't stop. I sometimes see…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online9 Jul 2018
Marrying one's aunt's husbands sister
I'd like to ask if it is halal to marry my aunties sister in law meaning (my aunties husbands sister).
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online9 Jul 2018
Woman in haidh eating in public during Ramadhaan
Some scholars say that it is permissible for a woman to eat and drink if she gets her menses during fasting but some scholars say that if a woman…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online3 Jul 2018
Being married to two sisters at the same time
Can I marry my sister-in-law (wife's sister) as my second wife while I am still married to my wife?
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online2 Jul 2018
Marrying a Christian woman
Can a Muslim man marry a Christian woman? Does the girl have to convert to Islam?
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online27 Jun 2018
Women becoming depressed when hearing about the beauty of the hoors
I want advices. Whenever I hear or read about hoors I became depressed. I read hadiths about their beauty, perfume, singing, skin colour etc. I'm…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Ask Imaam23 Jun 2018
Female Discharge
Im a female that experiences discharge regularly. I wear disposable underwear liners daily. I make a fresh wudhu for every salah if i notice the…
Muhammad Yaasir Yunus Hussen - Mufti Online5 May 2018
Women reading Taraweeh in jamaat
1. I wanted to know if two women are reading Taraweeh together, must the one leading for those rakaats stand a little forward and the one following…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online3 May 2018
Keeping a female manager in one's business
I would like to know where do I stand in a situation whereby my husband is in ownership of a shop. He has a manageress who is not in purdah and only…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online3 May 2018
Woman opening a shop in front of her house
I am a married woman and with my husband’s permission, I would like to start a grocery shop in front of my home. Is this allowed in Islam?
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online2 May 2018
Calculating haiz when in istihaazah
In the case of istihaaza, if my period starts at around 4:00-5:00, then after my haiz days I then count 15 days as clean, now I am still having…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Jamiat KZN2 May 2018
Custody of children after divorce
My husband gave one talaaq ba’ain. I few weeks later I discovered I was 7weeks expecting. After delivery of baby and iddah expiry I want to know who…
Muhammad I.V Patel - Mufti Online24 Apr 2018
Reciting an aayah in the state of haidh as a form of zikr
Can a woman in haidh recite the following ayah as a form of zikr فَإِن تَوَلَّوْا فَقُلْ حَسْبِيَاللَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۖ عَلَيْهِ…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online24 Apr 2018
Doubting whether haidh has ended
Toward the end of a menstrual period, often it is not clear if the period has ended or not. This causes a frustrating problem: should she wait until…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online24 Apr 2018
Paying for one's divorced wife's expenses during her iddah period
If 2 people are divorced. The girl moves to another town. The ex husband tells his ex brother in law to ask a mufti in his area twice to ask how…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online24 Apr 2018
Women reciting in an audible voice in salaah
Do women have to recite Salah in a voice audible to their ears or not?
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online24 Apr 2018
Women performing salaah in front of non-mahrams
Are women allowed to offer salah infront of non-mahrams?
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online23 Apr 2018
Reason for mutahayyirah performing salaah as a precaution
It is mentioned in a fatwa regarding a mutahayyara that if she is in doubt as to whether her haidh has ended or not, she will take ghusl for each…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online23 Apr 2018
Engaging in sexual relations after haidh before making ghusal
If a woman has completed her haiz, can she do intercourse with her husband without making ghusl although she has no bleeding or any trace of haiz…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online21 Apr 2018
Performing salaah wearing short sleeves
Firstly I have clothes with short sleeves. All my clothes are these which have almost 3 quarter sleeves. I have almost less than a quarter of my arm…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online21 Apr 2018
Getting married to a prostitute
I know a girl and I like her but she is a sex worker and I have done a niyyat that I want to take her out of that so is it allowed in Islam to marry…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online21 Apr 2018
Issuing talaaq to scare one's wife
I got married 2 years ago to my wife who since then has been living at home. A lot of arguments had started between the family’s which then caused a…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online21 Apr 2018
Woman looking at a non-mahram man
Is it permissible for a woman to look at another man who is not as handsome or old to get attracted?
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online19 Apr 2018
Hadith on most people in Jahannum will be women
I heard somewhere, the prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said, most of the people in hell will be women and scholars (Ulamaa) of my…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online19 Apr 2018
Woman communicating with non-mahram males for work reasons
I am a woman who studied engineering and am now working from home for a network security company. For my work, I have to correspond with non-mahrams…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online19 Apr 2018
Women wearing turbans
Is it fine for women to wear turbans because I heard that we are not allowed because of the way Sikh men wear it.
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online19 Apr 2018
Women pledging bay'at to a Shaikh
1. What is the method of women pledging bay'at at the hands of a Shaikh? Should it be done in the way males place their hands in the hands of the…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online17 Apr 2018
The difference in rank between men and women
1. People say that in Islam, women are held in very high regard, equal to that of men. Is this true? 2. Can you please clarify the conflicts of the…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online17 Apr 2018
Women studying online
I have completed my A Levels but did not attend a university after that as I was told by my Shaikh that leaving the house for such studies was not…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online16 Apr 2018
Purdah from non-mahrams
1. I would like to know who is regarded as your mahram and who do you keep pardah from? Are milk brothers and sisters classified as mahrams? What…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online16 Apr 2018
Bleeding after a miscarriage
I understand that after a miscarriage, the blood will be considered nifas if the miscarried fetus had any sort of physical development, like a limb…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online15 Apr 2018
Spending iddat in different houses
A woman has two sons. Her husband died. Where she should spend her iddat? When her husband was alive they used to live some days with one son and…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online9 Apr 2018Roman Urdu
Nifaas ke 40 din se ziyaadah khoon jaari ho to namaaz ka hukam
Nifas k blood ki miyar 40 din hoti he 40 din k bd b ye aaye to namaz ka kia hukam ha?
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Jamiat KZN9 Apr 2018
Prohibition of marrying a daughter from an adulterous relationship
Assalamu alaykum mufti sab there is this Muslim guy who was making zina with a certain woman untill she become pregnant and has a child now(bursted)…
Mufti Ismaeel Bassa - Mufti Online5 Apr 2018
Salaah for a woman who forgot her previous habit of haidh
If a woman is mutahayyarah (istihazaa forgot her habit) and she is doing ghusl for every salaah thereafter does she has to do qadha again for those…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online5 Apr 2018
Method of ruku for women
Today when I was praying, when I went into ruku, my palms were touching my knees but my fingers were touching my clothes and not my knees. Is my…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Jamiat KZN5 Apr 2018
On Relations with In-Laws
As is common knowledge there are many ahadith with regard to importance and the obligation of keeping family ties in Islam. Does this also apply…
Mufti Moosa Salie - Mufti Online4 Apr 2018
Making dua after nifaas
Relatives are telling me that when my 40 days of nifaas (postpartum) are over, my husband should make a prayer or dua as it is what the elders have…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee
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