I’m Just Joking!
Posted by AbdelRahman - 04/07/08 at 10:04 am
With the great American holiday of April Fool’s having just passed us, the permissibility of exaggeration and stretching the truth in joking has been a hot issue. Is it okay to be sarcastic? Why can’t we stretch the truth a bit? Isn’t it okay if we’re just joking?
In our efforts to follow the hadith of Muhammad [saw], some of us have become insta-scholars, proclaiming rulings on the issue without really thinking it through (trust me, myself included). Below, Shaykh Salman gives us another balanced view of the issue with his awesome wisdom, masha Allah. Reading this fatwa puts a whole new spin on what it means to be “just kidding.”
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Falling In Love…Online
Posted by AbdelRahman - 03/30/08 at 06:03 pm
A big Jazak Allahu khayr to Saqib for finding this. “Never in my years of seeing Islamic websites on this topic have I seen this good of a fatwa, mashaAllah,” he commented as, he showed me the link.
Question: Two people fall in love after getting to know each other online. Will their marriage be a success or a failure?
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