Fiqhtion: The authorities cannot impose medical treatment without consent. Fiqh: The Islamic Fiqh Academy in Jeddah (Majma’ al-fiqh al-islami)—one of the more reputable councils for examining contemporary fiqh issues—mentions several …
Fiqh: “Due to the aforementioned verses, hadiths, and unanimous consensus of the Ummah—” Fiqhtion: “I object! That’s not how we do things in America!” Explanation: The primary sources of Islamic …
According to this article Police in Afghanistan’s northern province of Balkh say the Taliban killed a young woman for wearing tight clothing and not being accompanied by a male relative. …
I think it’s high time for Muslims to have a serious conversation about the halalness of industries and products that so overtly exploit and exacerbate insecurities. Someone interested in īmān …
There are articles circulating reporting that Al-Azhar has issued a warning against the popular videogame Fortnite. Here is an example: The renowned Al-Azhar University in Cairo has issued a warning …
A legal maxim states that consenting to a thing implies consenting to its consequences, too.* For example, someone who consents to an operation, consents to its consequences, for better or …
A search for “O nafs” (“يا نقس”) using (https://al-maktaba.org/search) returns 2237 individual pages where it is mentioned at least once. A search just through books up through the end of …
The following comes from al-ʿIzz bin ʿAbd al-Salām al-Sulamī’s booklet Nubadhun min maqāṣid al-kitāb al-ʿazīz (“Overview of the Objectives of the Quran”). More of the book is available through Patreon. …
Someone asked about some basic guidelines for toys. In addition to yesterday’s post which covers some of the fiqh related to toys in the form of animate creatures [link], here …
Here is a non-exhaustive collection of textual evidence that Shafii jurists tend to understand to indicate a general-prohibition of depicting animate life: The Prophet ﷺ cursed those who depict living …