as salaamu alaikum,
i am currently a medical student. i also have a business on the side which alhumdolillah generates some income. but there are times in the year when i have maintained my nisab for a year but have not payed for my upcoming semesters tuition because the school has not sent out the bill for the tuition yet. what should i do? is the money i have saved due for zakat even though i know i have bills which will exceed the savings which are coming up?

All praise be to Allah, and may His peace and blessings be on the greatest messenger, Muhammad.
If the bill for the future semesters has not been generated and you do have the nisab, you must pay the zakat.
Allah knows best.

Assalam Alaikum ..
Dear Sir, I am a pious girl. I am educated and working in a reputable company. I am single. My problem is that I am very afraid of men as each time I meet someone who tries to approach me, I realize he is a bad person who seeks nothing in life but money or satisfying his desires or he can’t take decisions on his own.
Joining a new job, I heard of a very religious & pious guy, about whom all people are talking of his piety and manners… he was looking at me a lot, so i started to admire him. He is single. A week ago, i knew by accident that he`s preparing to marry his kinship within a month. Note, he`s still looking at me and trying to approach me. I stopped looking at him and resisted doing that a lot before (Zina Ain) but i`m amazed that such a pious guy behaves this way. I don’t know how to behave with him. I am very depressed that most guys are not good though seemigly. I feel i cant marry or be engaged to any man. They r all bad and unpious. They dont fear Allah when treating ladies, knowing that i`m not a beauty. no makeup, polite, pious…. What shall i do?

All praise be to Allah, and may His peace and blessings be on the greatest messenger, Muhammad.
My respected sister,
• You should continue to wait for a pious suitor and put your trust in Allah. There are pious men as there are pious women. Some men also complain of the lack of pious sisters. It seems that it is a matter of finding the right one, whether a man or a woman. There will always be good people in this ummah of ours, so do not lose hope.
• Avoid contact with men on social basis, and beware of men who are not conservative in their approach to women who are classmates or co-workers…etc.
• Visit the masjids frequently, for that is where pious people likely are.
• Make sincere du’a’ to Allah to protect you from all evil and all who are evil, and to grant you a good husband and stable family.
• Investigate very well (but within moderation) the background of any potential suitor and let your guardian (father if present) do the same.
May Allah reward you for your religiosity and morality and grant you a pious husband and righteous family and offspring.

Giving Dawah to Muslims or non-Muslims?

What is your fatwa on brothers doing da`wa (دعوة) to other muslims brothers instead of non-muslim brothers considering that it`s not a sunnah?

Jazakom ALLAH Khairan

All praise be to Allah, and may His peace and blessings be on the greatest messenger, Muhammad.
Da�wah is given to both Muslims and no-Muslims, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) spent his entire life - after God commissioned him - in giving da�wah to all people.
Allah said:
” وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا كَافَّةً لِّلنَّاسِ بَشِيرًا وَنَذِيرًا وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ”
�And We have not sent you but to all the men as a bearer of good news and as a warner, but most men do not know.� (Saba� 34:28)
Allah knows best.

I told my wife, that she is divorced if she watches TV. Is it a divorce if she watches anytime ?

All praise be to Allah, and may His peace and blessings be on the greatest messenger, Muhammad.
This is a controversial issue and many of the contemporary scholars would consider this a matter of oath to deter the wife from a certain act � if that was the intention of the husband - and not divorce.
Based on this, you will need to expiate for the oath as indicated in the Quran:
�لاَ يُؤَاخِذُكُمُ اللّهُ بِاللَّغْوِ فِي أَيْمَانِكُمْ وَلَكِن يُؤَاخِذُكُم بِمَا عَقَّدتُّمُ الأَيْمَانَ فَكَفَّارَتُهُ إِطْعَامُ عَشَرَةِ مَسَاكِينَ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ مَا تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِيكُمْ أَوْ كِسْوَتُهُمْ أَوْ تَحْرِيرُ رَقَبَةٍ فَمَن لَّمْ يَجِدْ فَصِيَامُ ثَلاَثَةِ أَيَّامٍ ذَلِكَ كَفَّارَةُ أَيْمَانِكُمْ إِذَا حَلَفْتُمْ وَاحْفَظُواْ أَيْمَانَكُمْ كَذَلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللّهُ لَكُمْ آيَاتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ�
�Allah will not punish you for what is uninentional in your oaths, but He will punish you for your deliberate oaths; for its expiation (a deliberate oath) feed ten Masakin (poor persons), on a scale of the average of that with which you feed your own families; or clothe them; or manumit a slave. But whosoever cannot afford (that), then he should fast for three days. That is the expiation for the oaths when you have sworn. And protect your oaths (i.e. do not swear much). Thus Allah make clear to you His Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) that you may be grateful.� (Quran 5:89)
It remains to be said that this inappropriate usage of the word �divorce� is a blameworthy act unbefitting of men of noble character and is abused only by the ignorant and the impious.
Allah knows best.

Assalamu alaikum, this is a question from a prisoner in North Carolina. I am a in prison in NC and I want to know if Muslims are allowed to let people from the Nation of Islam, Moorish science temple of America, or the nation of gods (five presenters) pray alongside of them in the five obligatory prayers.

All praise be to Allah, and may His peace and blessings be on the greatest messenger, Muhammad.
They may if they feel that this would reconcile their hearts. They do, however, need to have them pray on the sides of the rows or behind them, not in the midst of the Muslims praying. That is because their prayers are invalid until they accept Islam and perform the prayer with all of its conditions and pillars known to Muslims. Based on that, the lines will be interrupted by people who are not praying if they prayed in the midst of the Muslims.
Allah knows best.