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

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

373 Questions

Are Muslim men allowed to see women? Is there a Quranic law that mandates lowering the gaze in the presence of women?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Muslim men have been ordered in Quran to lower their gaze and not look at Nin Mahram women who are not covered by proper Hijab. (Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and protect their private parts (from sinful sexual acts). That is purer for them. (Sura Noor, verse 30).

Next verse says: And tell the believing women to lower their gaze ( from looking at non Mahram men) and protect their private parts.(from sinful sexual acts).(Sura Noor, verse 31).

These orders aim preventing acts which can initiate or cause sinful sexual acts and maintaining the purity and piousness in the hearts of men and women when dealing with each other. It is a type of prevention which is better than cure. Sinful looking initiates sinful desire which can be a step towards sinful sexual act, that is why, lowering gaze has been clearly ordered in Quran and authentic Hadeeths.

Wassalam.
Is the following statement attributed to Hazrat Ali (AS) authentic where he says that when he offers prayers he talks to Allah, and when he reads the Koran Allah talks to him?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

The content is mentioned in many narrations mentioned in our books. If you have a specific narration which you want to research its authenticity, you can send it to this site with name of the book where you found it. We will try to research and reply you iA.

Wassalam.
Does the Quran say that after they ate from the tree, Adam and Eve covered their private parts? If so, doesn’t this mean that they were unclothed before?
Amina Inloes

Yes. 

Qur'an 7:22 says: Thus he [Satan] lured them on through deception. And when they tasted of the tree, their nakedness was exposed to them, and they began to sew together the leaves of the Garden to cover themselves. And their Lord called out to them, “Did I not forbid you from that tree, and tell you that Satan is a manifest enemy unto you?”

Some narrations say that, after this occurred, they sewed together fig leaves to cover themselves.

It is also narrated from Imam al-Sadiq (A), when somoene asked about this verse (so you are not the first person!), that the private parts of Adam and Eve were originally not apparent outwardly, but when they tasted the fruit, they became visible.

God knows best. 

 
I have a neurological stammer, a speech disorder, as a result of which reciting the Quran in Salah is really difficult and stressful. It takes me a minute to say one word. Is it permissible to recite the Quran in my mind rather than aloud during prayers?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

It is obligatory to recite in the first and second Rak'at of every Prayer, Sura Al-Hamd and another Sura. Reciting must be by your tongue and not in your mind only. If you have difficulty in reciting, you should recite in the way which you can, even if it is not perfectly correct, as far as it is the best that you can. Remembering the Sura in your mind is not reciting. Those who totally paralysed should remember the Sura in their mind because that are totally unable to move their tongue nor their lips, but as you are able to move your tongue and lips, you must recite the Sura in the way which you can.

Wassalam.