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  2. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

123 Questions

If I decide to cremate my cats once they die is it permissible to keep their ashes?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Cremating dead animal body is permissible unlike cremating human dead body which is absolutely Haraam (forbidden). Keeping the ashes of the dead animal is permissible. I advice you to think about any real benefits you can get from any action you do.

Wassalaam.
Does a wife remain Mahram for her husband after her death? Can a husband personally bury his wife in the grave?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'ala

Yes, and spouse has preference in burial procedures of passed away spouse.

And Allah knows best. 
How can we effectively respond to non-Muslims who claim that Islam promotes child suicide by teaching that all children go to heaven if they die before puberty and their sins are not held against them?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Suicide is a major sin because it is a crime of murder and it is a result of another major sin which is loosing hope from the mercy of Allah. Every believer in Allah should believe in his great mercy, which is much more greater than any difficulty or hardship,people who commit suicide,do so after loosing hope and thinking that their problems have no solution,and by committing suicide they try to run away from the problems this feeling of not hoping the mercy of Allah itself is a major sin.

The fact that sinless children who die during their childhood will go to paradise is a part of the mercy of Allah[THE Exalted]. The most merciful,The most compassionate.

wassalam.
I understand to be a martyr one must die with the love of both the Prophet (S) and the Ahlul Bayt (AS). So with the situation in Palestine, would one who dies there be considered a martyr if they did not die with the love of Ahlul Bayt (AS)?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Allah (SWT) Knows what is in the heart of every one and we are not entitled to judge the intentions of people. Allah Knows why there were killed and what was in their hearts when they were defending their homes and families. We read in the Hadeeths that a person who dies while defending his family or land will get the reward of Shaheed.

'Our responsibility as followers of Ahlul Bayt (AS) is to support the oppressed against the oppressors as Ameerul Mo'mineen Ali (AS) ordered us: Be against the oppressor and with the oppressed.

Wassalam.