1. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims
  2. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

159 Questions

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.
Is it appropriate to teach a child the supplication "رب اغفر لي ولوالدي وارحمهما كما ربياني صغيرا" if their father has expressed hostility towards Islam or the Prophet (s)?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Yes,this supplication can help every Muslim parent even if they are sinners.

wassalam.
In which sources of Islamic history can I find out more about Prophet Muhammad's children, both biological and adopted or fostered?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Allamah Sayyed Ja'far Murtadha Al-Aamili has written a book on this subject (Banaat Al-Nabiyy Am Rabaa'ibih) . You can read it on www.mezan.net

Wassalam.
Do I have to make up missed prayers, fasts, and pay Kaffarah for the period before I started praying consistently at the age of 13, if I became baligh at 11 or 12?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Yes. Any missed worship after you have become Baligh, must be made up as Qadha.

‘Any missed worship before Bolough does not need to be made up.

Wassalam.