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Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

48 Questions

My first Khums date is July 22. Do I need to pay Khums on savings made since September 2024 before buying gold jewelry for my wedding? Should I consider all funds in my account, including recent deposits? How are older unused scholarship funds impacted?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Khums is obligatory on everything you lawfully own, on the date of your Khums, if it is not in use for your day to day life requirements. There is Khums on items you have purchased and started using like jewelry, clothes, car, house where you live, etc.

Wassalam.
In the context of slavery, did female slaves automatically hold the same status as wives? If that is the case, what is the significance of marriage to slaves mentioned in the Qur'an? Why is marriage necessary if ownership implied a marital relationship?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Slavery rules were never started by Muslims but were already existing in different societies of the time when Islam came. Slavery rules are an outcome of wars. Islamic rules aimed to diminish slavery and finish it off. Slavery rules can not be taken as permanent rules for life but only in war and after war under many conditions.

Slave female from war between Nin Muslims against Muslims is not like a full wife of the owner who has the full rights of justice between her and other wife and inheritance from her husband. When the Muslims marries his owned female (Aman), she will then have all rights if the wife. With out marriage, she is called Sariyyah.

Wassalam.
Does a Mutah marriage automatically end when the specified time expires? If intimacy was a prerequisite, does that influence the conclusion of the Mutah?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Mut'ah is a time fixed Islamic marriage which ends automatically on the end of the agreed time. Both can renew the Mut'ah by reciting another Mut'ah contract with a Mahr and a new period of time if they wish. 
'Wassalam.
What does Sharia say in Shia Islam if a person divorces his wife for any reason and later both realize they want to reconcile after completing the required waiting period?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'āla

They do a new nikah, and remarry.

I would advise that they address their previous issues, so as to not repeat them again.

And Allah knows best