Hello there, I don't find anything offending about your questions so no worries.

Fellow forumers have answered ur questions wonderfully but I just want to add few other points:

-I'm not sure what u mean by mortal, but Muslims believe Jesus is alive. He did not die on the cross but instead ascended to heaven. Still, he is not divine (for Muslims believe God is only one and has not begotten nor begets). Instead, Jesus is a human (a prophet) created by Allah and so uniquely honoured that he did not experience normal birth nor a normal death.
-No issue of fitting in as Muslims believe all prophets have their own unique miracles/honours. Among Jesus' miracles are he was born unlike normal human, did not die like normal humans and will comeback. Other prophets have their own miracles/honours. In fact, all prophets are considered of equal standing and no prophet including Muhammad is better than other prophets (so no issue that my prophet is better than yours that he should be d one to call d day or something). Muhammad was just honoured to be d last prophet that was sent to perfect d religion.

As stated in Quran: "Say: We have believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Descendants and what was given to Moses and Jesus and what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims in submission to Him. -Al-Baqarah 2:136. (- See more about this at: http://www.faithinallah.org/is-prophet-muh....D2GgBfKm.dpuf).

Hope you find these infos useful

It is allowed i.e. not forbidden. Some scholars say makruh, others say harus. On d flipside no problem for Muslim woman to susukan non-muslim kids. In both cases yes they will become ibu susuan=mahram provided all conditions fulfilled (eg 5 kali kenyang, etc..).

You know a Muslim may have blood parents who are non-muslims anyway, and vice versa right.. Religion doesn't affect relationship of blood or susuan. Similarly susuan doesn't affect akidah.

English and Arabic language structure and grammar has a lot of similarities compared to Malay. Similarly I find it is easier to learn Mandarin via Malay language medium compared to English (Malay n Chinese language more similar if u get what I mean).

For me best dictionary to refer if wanna learn Arabic is Al-mawrid English-arabic-english dictionary.

Yes, hence d purpose of merisik, i.e. to find out if d girl is attached or not. After merisik then u know she's not available and u should step back.

What is prohibited is masuk meminang knowingly that d girl already engaged to someone else (d mentaliti selagi belum kawin still ada chance).

The hadis says pertunangan patut dirahsiakan, perkahwinan patut dihebahkan. U are correct also tho, pertunangan perlu diberitahu kepada yg bertanya and definitely tak payah buat kenduri bagi. As the trend nowadays, kenduri for bertunang mengalahkan walimah kawin.

Qur'an kata to follow sunnah as d purpose among others to complement or explain things that may not be detailed in the Quran..

I'm not sure what do u imply by this..are you anti hadis? (sorry if I misunderstood).

Lots of verses that Allah asked to follow what Rasul asks to do and leave what he forbids eg. an-nisa':59, 64, al-hasyr: 7, al-anfal 20..

Provided of course it must be hadis sahih..

I see.. Probably the better way to go about it is to ask about the source of the hadith. True that Al-Quran is in higher authority but hadith also is equally divine revelation and a source of Islamic teaching. I agree that one should check d sources including hadith so that one do not spread riwayat palsu or dhaif. If u learn ulum hadis u will know that d method to ascertain the authenticity or level of hadis is very2 meticulous, very stringent procedure.

If a hadith is proven sahih it is a valid source, no issue of infallibility.

By the way the previous hadith I mentioned is from sahih bukhari book 5 no 884. Muslim also reported similar riwayat.

Baca tahiyat awal.

To remain in wuduk at all time is sunnah (amalan Nabi). Yes dapat pahala lebih. Just recommended, not compulsory.

Hadis ibadah bulan rejab memang hadis dhaif.

Dalam hal2 akidah, perkara halal haram tak boleh beramal dengan hadis dhaif. Kalau bab sunat atau harus, tak apa. Buat ibadah sunat (puasa, baca yasin etc) generally dapat pahala, tak kisah la buat bila2, tu je.

Contohnya doa makan, datang daripada hadis dhaif. Tapi no problem jadi amalan.

Bukan semua bidaah menyesatkan, lagipun hadis dhaif bukan hadis palsu, cuma sanad tak strong. Tapi seeloknya tak disebarkan hadis2 yang tak sahih (org sekarang suka main share semua benda tanpa pastikan dulu status/sumbernya).

More explanation:

The context of the verse is regarding the prohibition of intoxication. Arak was prohibited in stages (because it had been a rooted culture). First stage an ayat stated the evils of intoxicants, 2nd stage (the above ayat) about you cannot perform solat when in drunken state because you don't know what you're doing (and solat is wajib 5 times daily, it will be difficult for Muslims to find the time in between solat to drink liquor. At this stage most already abandon liquor). The next/last stage was the total ban on intoxicants. That's about the reason behind the above ayat.

About full understanding of what we perform in Solat, (I assume u mean for someone who is fully sober, not under influence of liquor or drugs, right?) the ayat is not relevant because it deals with different situation.

Regarding your question, there are three types of rukun solat, fi'li (the physical movement), qauli (the verbal), qalbi (i.e. niat and proper sequence of rukun). For verbal, there are only 5 things that are wajib in solat: takbir, reciting al-faatihah, reciting tahiyat akhir, salawat in tahiyat akhir and salam. Other than that are rukun fi'li and qalbi and you don't need to recite anything else to make the solat valid (all the bacaan during sujud and all are sunat, although it is very very recommended not to skip). So you see there is no requirement to understand the meaning of the Arabic words for the rukun qauli (which are really not many).

What I am trying to say is, it is not about priority of reciting in Arabic, it just the matter of fulfilling the rukun. Do all the rukun then the solat will be valid (it happen that all the qauli part is required in Arabic).

But, I understand and agree with your concern. By merely perform all the rukun, your solat is valid and you absolve yourself from the obligation to perform solat. That part is settled. But not understanding the meaning of what you're saying (or doing), your solat is less meaningful and solat will become nothing less than a habit. One way to attain khusyu' in solat is by understanding fully the meaning and reason of all the sayings and doings in solat. I'm sure when we (non Arab speakers) first learn to perform solat we all learn the translations as well but as we grew older, we take things for granted and solat becoming more mechanical.

In the end it is up to the individual, either to make the solat something meaningful (the opportunity to get up close with your Creator) or something that one want to get it done quickly with.

Totally spot on. Using bin Abdullah I guess came from Malay culture because Malays don't use family name. It is very wrong to impose one's culture on others when there is no backing of such practice in Islam. In fact Islam is very particular about keeping the record of blood lineage that you are not allowed to use even adopted father's name.

Rule untuk salam simple je, you cannot salam those yg bukan mahram (mahram = people you cannot marry).





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I think obvious stuff about husband and wife, would have been informed during kursus kahwin, no? Anyway here's some in case some might not know:
- Parents in law (and upwards = grandparents in law, etc) are considered mahram kekal, meaning you can salam and cannot marry them (obviously) even after divorce. While your sister/brother in laws, are not considered mahram and you can marry them after current spouse is divorced/died (same rule, can marry=cannot salam).
- Stepmother/father are also considered mahram kekal for the children and vice versa. But stepsiblings can marry each other even when their parents are still married. (stepsiblings meaning those that do not share blood relationship at all, not halfsisters/brothers. I think some Malays mistakenly call halfsiblings as adik beradik tiri as well and thought adikberadik tiri cannot kawin).

Ada hadis yg mengatakan nabi tak terima hadiah drp musyrikin tapi majority ulama interpret this sebagai not preferable, tapi tak haram. Sbb banyak bukti lain yg nabi terima dan selalu beri hadiah kepada non-muslim.

Malah dihujahkan sbb tak terima hadiah tu bukan kerana status pemberi, tapi lebih kepada sumber atau tujuan pemberian tu. Contohnya diketahui pasti duit tu dari sumber haram contohnya prize drp sykt 4D, atau duit tu diberi sebagai rasuah atau apa2 tujuan jahat yg merugikan Islam. Dalam kes mcm ni tak boleh terima tak kisah daripada Muslim or non-muslim.

So kesimpulannya pendapat yg majority boleh terima hadiah drp non-muslim. Wallahua'lam.

Do you mean about wudhu' validity? You can do tayammum.

No problem at all, just an Arabic word for welcome.

In fact it is not wrong for you to use THE salam: Assalamualaikum (Peace be upon you) to greet Muslims. The problem is: There are SOME opinions that Muslims cannot return non-Muslims' greetings with salam. So it caused some awkwardness (to jawab or not), if you get what I mean. So it is up to you, maybe in Malaysia it is safer to avoid it since many Malaysians are not open minded or lack the knowledge.

While I am at it, just some note about salam:
- Muslims are recommended to greet other Muslims with salam, but to answer a salam is compulsory (Waalaikumussalam = And unto you peace).
- Muslims cannot initiate salam (Assalamualaikum) to non-Muslims. Other forms of greeting no problem.
- If a non-Muslim initiate salam first, Muslims may answer it in full or just Waalaik/waalaikum (meaning: And unto you). <-- the reason for this because back in the Prophet's days, some non-Muslims modified the salam to become Assamualaikum = something of the meaning "death upon you". So the answer 'back to you' is safe either for a genuine salam or an ill-intended 'salam'.

“When you are greeted with a greeting, greet in return with what is better than it, or (at least) return it equally.” [Al-Quran, al-Nisa’ 4:86]

Takde masalah terima kalau bukan 100% riba. Kalau duit, kita 'bersihkan' dgn sedekahkan yg riba' portion sahaja (sedekah tu kita tak dapat pahala pun, tapi berdosa kalau kita guna duit riba tu. Sedekah is the proper way tu get rid of it).

Harta selain duit tak pasti, tapi boleh nisbahkan dgn duit rasanya (nilaikan berapa jumlah interest dan get rid of it=sedekah).

Selepas itu pastikan harta tu bebas riba (buat refinancing ke). Dan bertaubat/mohon keampunan Allah untuk kekhilafan yg lalu.

True. Only one variation of spelling used by JPN now: Muhammad.

If it is too long, can choose to put Ahmad instead.

This post has been edited by PetomJL: May 1 2016, 11:05 AM

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