The Ruling on Attending Training Sessions Which Have Free-Mixing Between Men and Women – Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen
Question: What is the ruling on attending training sessions which have free-mixing between men and women?
Answer: “If a necessity calls for that, then there is no harm, along with avoiding communicating with women and looking at them with desire”*.
[‘Ilaam ul-Musaafireen pg. 86]
* Translator’s Note:
With that being said, the Shaikh’s final view on the issue of attending free-mixing schools or areas is that it is prohibited. The following is the last fatwa the Shaikh gave on the issue, which was a few months before he passed away rahimahullah.
He was asked:
Question: What is the ruling on studying medicine in a free-mixing university. Is this considered a Legislated need?
Answer: “This is not a Legislated need. It is obligatory upon those responsible of the Islamic country to separate between the men and women because free-mixing is an issue. If the people stopped entering into studies, enrolling in universities, and what resembles that of free-mixing, it would force the ruler to distinguish and separate. I see that it is not allowed to have free-mixing in medicine and nor other than it.
Questioner: Even in the Legislated Sciences?
Answer: “Even in the Legislated Sciences except if the women gather in a [separate] place, which they enter from a [separate] door and exit from a [separate] door and there is no free-mixing with men”.
[Tape: Kalimah ila Du’aat al-Jazaair recorded 23 Safar 1421 found here: aloloom.net/vb/showthread.php?t=14870]
Translated by
Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

The Ruling Concerning Celebrating Mother’s Day.Question:
Every year we have a holiday on a particular day and it is called Mother’s Day. It occurs on March 21. All the people gather and celebrate on that day. Is this permissible or forbidden?

Answer:
Every holiday or celebration that differs from Shariah celebrations is a newly invented innovation that was not known during the time of the Pious Predecessors. Furthermore, it may have begun as an imitation of the Non-Muslims. Therefore, in addition to it being an innovation, it may be an act of resembling the enemies of Allah.

The Shariah holidays are well known among the Muslims. These are the Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha and the weekly Eid [Fridays]. There is no holiday or festival in Islaam other than those three. Every holiday that is invented besides them is to be rejected as an innovation and falsehood in the Shariah . This is because the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi-wasallam) said,
” Every deed introduced into our affair that does not belong to it is rejected .” [1]
That is, it is rejected from that person and it will not be accepted by Allah. Another wording of the hadeeth states,
”Whoever does a deed that is not what our affair is upon, will have it rejected .” [2]
Since that is clear, the holiday that is mentioned by the questioner, known as Mother’s day, is not allowed. It is not allowed to have during such day any kind of public display and celebration, happiness, giving of presents and so forth.
It is obligatory upon a Muslim to have pride in his religion. He should also limit himself to what Allah and his Messenger (sallallaahu ‘alaihi-wasallam) have restricted this upright religion to. This is the religion Allah is pleased to have His servants follow. There can be no addition and no subtraction from this. Furthermore, a Muslim should not be a kind of weak person that follows every Tom, Dick and Harry. Instead, his personality should be that defined by the Law of Allah, such that he is followed and not a follower, such that he becomes an example and not a disciple. This should be the case because the Law of Allah, Praise be to Allah, is complete and perfect in all aspects. Allah says in he Qur’an,
” This day I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you and have chosen for you islaam as your religion .” al-Maidah :3
Furthermore, the mother has much more right than to have just one day in the year as a celebration for her. In fact, the women has a right upon her children, that they will care for her, look after her, obey her in anything which is not sinful, during all times and at all places.
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[1] Recorded by al-Bukhari, and Muslim.
[2] Recorded by Muslim, and by al-Bukhari in mualaq form.
Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-`Uthaymeen

Islamic Fatawa Regarding Women – Darussalam Pg.56-57

The Lajnah ad-Da’imah was asked the following question :

The Question :What is the ruling on wearing sports outfits that bear logos of non-Muslims such as sports T-Shirts with Italian, German, and American logos or those bearing the names of non-Muslim players?

The Answer : Wearing the outfits that bear logos of non-Muslims has some details:

1 – If such logos refer to the religions of the disbelievers, such as the Cross and the like, it is impermissible to import, sell, or wear these clothes.

2 – If these logos glorify a non-Muslim figure by putting his picture or writing his name on the sporting outfit, this is also Haram (prohibited).

3 – If these logos neither refer to any kind of worship nor glorification of a certain person, rather they are just ordinary commercial logos, then there is no harm in wearing such outfits.

May Allah grant us success.

May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.

The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta’

An excerpt from alifta.net.

We asked Shaikh Saleem al-Hilali hafidhuhallah about spoken word during one of our classes and he said it is allowed.

Obviously it should be free of haram things like bad speech as comes in the Hadith:

‎عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ‏:‏ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم‏:‏ الشِّعْرُ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْكَلاَمِ، حَسَنُهُ كَحَسَنِ الْكَلامِ، وَقَبِيحُهُ كَقَبِيحِ الْكَلامِ

‘Abdullah ibn ‘Amr reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Poetry is in the same position as speech. The good of it is like good words and its bad part is like bad words.” [Saheeh Adab al-Mufrad no. 865]

Or taking a wage or imitating the disbelievers.

And Allah Knows Best

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

The Ruling on April Fool’s

Shaikh Salih al-Fawzan hafidhuhallah was asked:

Question: Oh Virtuous Shaikh, this questioner is saying: we hope from the Shaikh (may Allah preserve him) some advice to the general Ummah specifically about April Fool’s which repeats year after year.

Answer: “This is imported in general from the false customs and it is not from the actions of the Muslims. Lying is not allowed. Not in April or in other than it. Lying is haram. Lying upon Allah, lying upon the Messenger (ﷺ), lying upon the people is haram. It is a major sin from the major sins. Allah forbid lying, prohibited it, and threatened the liars. It is not allowed in any time. Yes”.

[http://www.alfawzan.af.org.sa/node/13604]

Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen rahimahullah said:

“…In this occasion I warn my Muslim brothers from what some of the foolish ones do of April Fool’s. I think it is soon. This lie which came from the Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and the people of disbelief, then it is lying and lying is prohibited legislatively. It is an imitation of the disbelievers and imitation of the disbelievers is prohibited. The Prophet (ﷺ) said:

مَنْ تَشَبَّهَ بِقَوْمٍ, فَهُوَ مِنْهُمْ

He who imitates any people (in their actions) is considered to be one of them

[Saheeh Sunan Abi Dawood no.2031]

Shaikhul Islaam ibn Taymiyyah rahimahullah said the chain is Jayyid. The least of the situations is that it is prohibited even if the apparent [meaning of the Hadith] necessitates disbelieve by imitating them…Fourth, most times this filthy lying includes consuming the wealth in falsehood or scaring the Muslims. Sometimes he lies and lies to the people of the house saying so and so said: you will be visited by a group today. So they cook a lot of food and meat and what resembles that. Or sometimes they inform them of an affair that scares them. Like he says: your guardian was run over by a car or the likes, which is not allowed even outside this situation [i.e. April Fool’s]. So it is upon the Muslim to fear Allah, the Exalted and to be mighty through his religion, proud of it, pleased with it so that the enemies may have awe of the Muslims and respect him…”

[Fatawa Noor ‘ala Darb no. 34]

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

This is along with what our brother Abu Tayyib already translated:

http://torontodawah.com/?p=727