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Ruling on delaying ‘Asr prayer and its adhaan for an hour so that employees can gather   We are work colleagues in al-Jubayl Industrial City (Eastern Province). We pray Zuhr and ‘Asr in a small mosque at work, and there is no other congregation. Some of the brothers suggested that we organise the time of the adhaan and iqaamah as follows: 1. Zuhr prayer: adhaan at 11.45 and iqaamah at 12.00 noon 2. ‘Asr prayer: adhaan at 3.35 and iqaamah at 3.45 The reason for that is to enable everyone to pray in the mosque in congregation. This is the most suitable time when everyone will have returned to their offices from various distant places. Our question is: by doing that, will we have fulfilled what is meant in the hadeeth narrated from our Messenger Muhammad (blessings and pe...

Is it permissible to sell computer programs although I am afraid that they will use them for sinful purposes and that I may incur a burden of sin as a result of that, or am I not responsible for what the purchaser does after he has bought it from me? Praise be to Allah. With regard to programs and computers that may be used for good or bad purposes, it is permissible to sell them and trade in them, unless it is known that the purchaser is going to use them for haraam purposes. In that case it is not permissible to sell them to him. The same applies if it is thought most likely that he is going to use them for haraam purposes; it is not permissible to sell them to him in that case.  But if you are not certain as to whether he will use it for haraam purposes or not, then there is nothing wrong with you selling it to him. Then if he uses it for haraam purposes, the burden of sin will be on him only.  ...

Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 48: Witnesses Volume 3, Book 48, Number 805: Narrated Urwa bin Al-Musayyab, Alqama bin Waqqas and Ubaidullah bin Abdullah: About the story of 'Aisha and their narrations were similar attesting each other, when the liars said what they invented about 'Aisha, and the Divine Inspiration was delayed, Allah's Apostle sent for 'Ali and Usama to consult them in divorcing his wife (i.e. 'Aisha). Usama said, "Keep your wife, as we know nothing about her except good." Buraira said, "I cannot accuse her of any defect except that she is still a young girl who sleeps, neglecting her family's dough which the domestic goats come to eat (i.e. she was too simpleminded to deceive her husband)." Allah's Apostle said, "Who can help me to take revenge over the man who has harmed me by defaming the reputation of my family? By Allah, I have not known about my family-anything except...

Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 47: Gifts Volume 3, Book 47, Number 740: Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "O Muslim women! None of you should look down upon the gift sent by her she-neighbour even if it were the trotters of the sheep (fleshless part of legs)." Volume 3, Book 47, Number 741: Narrated Urwa: Aisha said to me, "O my nephew! We used to see the crescent, and then the crescent and then the crescent in this way we saw three crescents in two months and no fire (for cooking) used to be made in the houses of Allah's Apostle. I said, "O my aunt! Then what use to sustain you?" 'Aisha said, "The two black things: dates and water, our neighbors from Ansar had some Manarh and they used to present Allah's Apostle some of their milk and he used to make us drink." Volume 3, Book 47, Number 742: Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "I shall accept the i...