Quick Answer Yes — IVF is halal in Islam when it uses the husband’s sperm and the wife’s egg, and the embryo is placed in the wife’s own womb while the marriage is intact. This is the position of the Islamic Fiqh Academy (OIC), Al-Azhar, and the overwhelming majority of contemporary scholars and fatwa councils….
Quick verdict: About 80% of buying a home with Islamic financing is identical to a conventional purchase — the credit checks, the house hunting, the title company. The differences are concentrated in three places: you choose your provider before house hunting, you sign a partnership or lease contract instead of a loan, and closing takes…
Quick verdict: Yes — Guidance Residential is a genuinely structured halal home financing product, not a relabeled conventional mortgage. Its Declining Balance Co-ownership model is real diminishing musharakah (shared ownership, shared risk), overseen by an independent Shariah board chaired by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani. The honest nuance: AMJA places it in its “conditionally permissible” category…
Quick verdict: Wahed Invest is the most established halal robo-advisor in the US — every portfolio is Shariah-screened, a dedicated Shariah board oversees it, and purification is handled for you. The trade-off is cost: you’ll pay more than managing halal ETFs yourself. If you want fully hands-off halal investing and don’t want to screen anything…
Short answer: Tawheed is the oneness of Allah: the belief that Allah alone is God, alone is to be worshipped, and alone possesses His perfect names and attributes. It is the foundation of Islam — the first thing every prophet called to, the meaning of the testimony of faith, and the opposite of shirk, which…
Short answer: Shirk is associating a partner with Allah — in worship, in lordship, or in His names and attributes. It is the one sin Allah says He will not forgive if a person dies upon it without repenting, and it is the opposite of tawheed, the oneness of Allah that all of Islam is…
Short answer: The Farewell Sermon (Khutbat al-Wada) is the sermon the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ delivered at Arafat on 9 Dhul-Hijjah 10 AH (March 632 CE), during his only Hajj after the Hijrah — the pilgrimage known as Hajjat al-Wada, the Farewell Pilgrimage. Before a crowd reported to number over a hundred thousand companions, he laid…
Short answer: No — M&M’s sold in the USA and UK are not halal. Mars, the manufacturer, has stated officially that M&M’s are “not suitable for a halal diet” because the company “uses additives that come from animal products.” Mars also confirms its M&M’s are not halal-certified in these markets. In some Muslim-majority countries, locally-made…
17 Ramadan, 2 AH (March 13, 624 CE): 313 poorly-equipped Muslims faced ~1,000 Quraysh warriors at the wells of Badr — and won a victory the Quran calls Yawm al-Furqan, the Day of Criterion. Fourteen centuries later, Badr is still the reference point for what belief can do against impossible odds. It was the first…
Salah is the first thing a Muslim will be asked about on the Day of Judgment (Tirmidhi) — and it is also the act most beginners feel nervous about getting wrong. The good news: all five prayers follow one pattern. Learn the 2-rakah Fajr prayer below, and you have learned the skeleton of every prayer….
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