Kitaab At-Tawheed, Chapter: 24     What Has Been Said About Fortune-tellers and Their Like Muslim has narrated, on the authority of one of the wives of the Prophet (saas ) (Hafsah - may Allah be pleased with her), that Allah's Prophet (saas ) said: "Whoever went to a fortune-teller and asked him about some matter (i.e. of the unseen) and believed him, will have his prayer rejected for forty days." The Prophet (saas ) informs us in this Hadith that if anyone visited a fortune-teller and asked him about a matter of the unseen - about which, in reality, none possesses knowledge except Allah (swt...

Hanging up Verses of the Qur'aan On the Office Wall   Question: Is it permissible to hang up certain verses of the Qur'aan on the office wall? And is it true that the ruling in this issue is the same as that for hanging up pictures?Answer: Hanging up pictures (of animals or of humans) is not allowed; we don't know anything wrong about hanging up verses of the Qur'aan or Hadiths in the office as a reminder. And with Allaah is the facilitation to do what is right.Shaykh `Abdul-`Azeez Bin BazFatawa Islamiyah vol.8, p.90, DARUSSALAM

Chapter 15The Righteous conduct on Regular base   Allah, the Exalted, says: "Has not the time come for the hearts of those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah - Islamic Monotheism) to be affected by Allah's Reminder (this Qur'an), and that which has been revealed of the truth, lest they become as those who received the Scripture [the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] before (i.e., Jews and Christians), and the term was prolonged for them and so their hearts were hardened?'' (57:16) "And We sent `Isa (Jesus) - son of Maryam (Mary), and gave him the Injeel (Gospel). And We ordained in the