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Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

22 Questions

I am a 15 year old boy. Last week I made an oath to Allah that I will never do a specific sin again and I have now broken the oath. What should I do now?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

You need to :

1. Seek forgiveness for breaking your oath.

2. You need to pay the penalty of breaking the oath which is feeding or clothing ten poor believers or fasting three days.

3. You must refrain from committing that sinful act again.

Wassalam.
If one uses the term 'Wallah' to prove something is true, and it turns out to be false, have they sinned if at the time they genuinely believed it to be true? Is using this term considered a Qasam?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

It is disliked ( Makrouh) to say Wallah ( By Allah) or any word with the same meaning to prove a claim if you believe that the claim is genuine. The Hadeeth says: True oaths destroys the houses.

Obviously, false oath is a major sin and it is called the sinful immersing oath because it immerses the liar inside the hellfire.

If you thought that something happened and said Wallah, then discovered that you were not right, you did not commit a sinful act, but a disliked act. You need to inform every one who heard you that you have misunderstood.

Wassalam.
What exactly defines a Qasam? If I say to my son that if you don’t do your homework I do Qasam that I will tell your teacher, and then he doesn’t do his work and I don’t tell his teacher, in this case is it a vow or oath that I have to expiate?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

The Qasam which is obligatory to fulfill is when you take the name of Allah in it. If you did not take the name of Allah, then such Qasam is not obligatory and no Kaffara  on you if you do not fulfill it.

Wassalam.
If a man made an oath to Allah (swt) and then broke it, what should he do as compensation?
Masuma Jaffer

According to Ayatullah Sistani:

Question: If a person breaks his oath, what is he supposed to do?

Answer: If a person takes an oath that he will perform an act (e.g. that he will fast) or will refrain from doing an act (e.g. that he will not smoke), but does not intentionally act according to his oath, he should give Kaffarah for it, which means he should set a slave free, or should fully feed ten indigent persons, or should provide them with clothes. And if he is not able to perform these acts, he should fast for three consecutive days.