Question The Ethiopian Foreign Minister, Adhanom has declared that negotiators from the South Sudanese government and the rebels loyal to Riek Machar will arrive in Addis Ababa today 01/01/2014 for peace talks. He then added, "I am worried that the continued fighting in Bor might scupper the start of these talks". Attack and retreat fighting is ongoing, sometimes it is controlled by one side and then by the other... South…

Question To our dear noble Scholar Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah, Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuhu The Prophet (saw) said: «مَنْ مَاتَ وَلَمْ يَغْزُ، وَلَمْ يُحَدِّثْ بِهِ نَفْسَهُ، مَاتَ عَلَى شُعْبَةٍ مِنْ نِفَاقٍ» "The one who dies without invading and does not talk to his self about it, then he died upon a branch of hypocrisy", So how does the self talk about invading happen? Barak Allah Bikum and…

Question: Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmat Allahu wa Barakatu my Sheikh, It is known that the evidence in the Aqeedah is either rational or through transmitted proofs. However the belief in Jinn is present only for their existence of transmitted evidence, for the lack of any significant physical evidence of their presence leads to belief in their presence rationally. So the question: How does it agree with the afore-mentioned, that scholars…

Question Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu Is it permissible (from a shar'i perspective) to carry out a punishment from the punishments of Allah on earth by Jihadist groups or members in "the absence of the Islamic State"? May Allah bless you and aid you. Answer Wa Alaikum Assalam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu. The carrying out of a punishment is a consequent of the judgment after proving the evidence of…