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  2. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

536 Questions

What can I do as a sister when my siblings are struggling to find suitable partners despite their efforts, especially with my sister approaching her 30s?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Keep on noble efforts to find a suitable person as well as praying to Allah (SWT) to Guide and Help and Bless. 
reciting this verse is also very helpful in marriage ( إنَّ هذا لَرِزقُنا ما لَهُ مِن نَفاد)

Sura 38, verse 54.

Wassalam.
If a chaste girl chooses not to marry, despite being respectful to her parents and financially independent, is she considered to be sinning because it causes her parents sadness?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

She is not obliged or bound to marry if she has valid reasons to refrain from marriage, but she must keep her parents' respect and never cause them or any one of them any sort of disrespect or sadness.

Wassalam.
I follow Sayyid Sistani and have heard differing views regarding oral sex. Can you clarify whether it is considered Makruh or Mubah within marriage? Also, is it permissible for a wife to perform oral sex while on her menstrual cycle?
Seyed Ali Shobayri

Bismillah, 

Asalamu Alaykom, 

Oral sex is permitted and is not makruh. However, one should not swallow anything which is najis such as semen. Swallowing such liquids would be haram. It is also permitted for a wife to perform oral sex while in the state of hayd. 

May Allah grant you success
In the context of slavery, did female slaves automatically hold the same status as wives? If that is the case, what is the significance of marriage to slaves mentioned in the Qur'an? Why is marriage necessary if ownership implied a marital relationship?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Slavery rules were never started by Muslims but were already existing in different societies of the time when Islam came. Slavery rules are an outcome of wars. Islamic rules aimed to diminish slavery and finish it off. Slavery rules can not be taken as permanent rules for life but only in war and after war under many conditions.

Slave female from war between Nin Muslims against Muslims is not like a full wife of the owner who has the full rights of justice between her and other wife and inheritance from her husband. When the Muslims marries his owned female (Aman), she will then have all rights if the wife. With out marriage, she is called Sariyyah.

Wassalam.