Month: March 2018

The Ruling Bitcoin- Shaikh Muhammad bin Hizaam (may Allah preserve him)

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*The Ruling Bitcoin- Shaikh Muhammad bin Hizaam (may Allah preserve him)*

*Question*: Is it allowed to deal with a currency called Bitcoin currency? It is a cryptocurrency and global payment system except that this currency is completely electronic. It is traded on the internet only, without a real or tangible presence. It is a digital decentralized currency. It is operates without a centralized depository?

*Answer*: “It is not allowed to deal with that company. It is a bubble company whose origin is not known. They do not gurantee you the money [you invest]. In it is obscurity and a lot of gharar [uncertainty]. For verily, a person pays his money and then it goes away. [It is reported that]:

نهى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم عن الغرر

The Prophet forbade gharar (uncertain transactions)

Reported by Muslim on the authority of Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him)

It is consuming the wealth [of others] in falsehood. So perhaps a person will pay some money, then it will leave and he will not know who demands it [from him]. He pays money via the internet or computers and there is no real angle which it is possible to rule if they [the company] take money from him or dispose it in impermissible means, or whether they deal with usury. Rather he himself does not know the dealings which they deal with. So it is an unlawful dealing from many angles: from the angle of gharar [uncertainty], the angle of obscurity, the angle of paying his wealth to an unknown party and it is not secure from being used in unlawful things. So the affairs connected to the prohibition of this dealing are many. So it is not permissible to deal with it. Thus, it is obligatory to hold back [from it] because its obscurity is from the most severe types of obscurity in financial transactions”.

Translated by

Faisal bin Abdul Qaadir bin Hassan

Abu Sulaymaan

Extreme dowries | Umar Ibn al Khattab رضي الله عنه

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Ibn Maajah (1887) narrated that ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab said:

“Do not go to extremes with regard to the dowries of women, for if that were a sign of honour and dignity in this world or a sign of piety before Allaah, then Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) would have done that before you. But he did not give any of his wives, and none of his daughters were given, more than twelve uqiyah. A man may increase the dowry until he feels resentment against her and says, ‘You cost me everything I own, and caused me a great deal of hardship’.”

Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Ibn Maajah, 1532. 

“Do not go to extremes” means do not exaggerate in increasing the dowry. “A man may increase the dowry until he feels resentment against her” means, until he begins to hate her when he is still paying off the debts incurred because of this mahr because it is too hard for him, or whenever he thinks about the matter.  

From Haashiyat al-Sindi ‘ala Ibn Maajah. 

Shaykh Ibn Baz | Life Insurance

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Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about life insurance, and he said: 

Insurance of one’s life or possessions is haraam and is not permitted, because it involves gharar (buying/selling something where it is not known whether what is being bought/sold will actually be achieved/delivered, or in what specific quantity, thus putting one’s money at undue risk to being lost) and riba (usury, interest). Allaah has forbidden all transactions that are based on riba, and all transactions which involve deceit, as a mercy to this ummah, and to protect them from that which may harm them. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“whereas Allaah has permitted trading and forbidden Ribaa”[al-Baqarah 2:275] 

And it was narrated in a saheeh report that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade deceit. And Allaah is the source of strength.

Scientific Miracles in the Quran and making Tafsir using contemporary theories – Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan

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Scientific Miracles in the Quran and making Tafsir using contemporary theories – Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan

Question: We hear a lot about what is called scientific miracles in the Quran. So is it allowed to attach it to the miracles of the Quran and to the revelation of the verses of the Quran about these issues [science issues]?

Answer: We spoke about this more than once and we have warned against it. We said: it is not allowed to make tafsir of the words of Allah except with the principles of well-known Tafsir: that is to explain the Quran by the Quran, explain it by the Sunnah, and with the explanation/exegesis of the Companions and Tabi’een and not to increase on this. The Quran is not explained b new theories because they are mistaken and correct. They are the speech of humans and the actions of humans. So we do not make it Tafsir of the speech of Allah. We do not say: this is the intent of Allah by this verse. This is speech about Allah without knowledge. And how many theories used to be sound today and after a short time became mistaken, a lie, and a theory other than it comes.

Allah says:

وَمَآ أُوتِيتُم مِّن الْعِلْمِ إِلاَّ قَلِيلاً

And of knowledge, you (mankind) have been given only a little [17:85]

So it is not allowed that we explain the Quran by these things and we do not say: this is from the scientific miracles.

[Taken from: al-Ijaabaat-ul-Muhimmah fil Mashaakil il-Mudlahimah pg. 219-220 no. 185]

Translated by

Faisal ibn Abdul Qaadir ibn HassanAbu Sulaymaan