Islamic View on Dinosaurs

Question: Assalamualaikum, As far as I’m aware of the Quran or Ahadith don’t mention anything of dinosaurs. What is the Islamic view on them? Does Islam consider that they ever existed? Is it haraam to believe they existed? Please answer the above questions and let […]

Is this gambling?

Question: Asalaamu alaikum. I asked an alima about whether or not it was gambling if co-workers got together and put money in a pot in a competition to lose weight. At the end of the competition, the person who lost the largest percentage of weight […]

MUHARRAM and ASHOORA

Muharram has the great honor of being the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four months which Allah has made sacred and holy from the time he created the heavens and the earth. The Holy Quran points to this and […]

Is Nikah through Skype valid?

AssalamuAlaikum Two mature adults had Nikah through Skype. After Skype Nikah, the couple lived together for almost two years. During that time Talaq was given  twice out of anger and the husband continued to argue on different occasions making statements to the wife to go […]