Department 10
Dar-ul-Ifta & Shariah Guidance Department
Fiqh guidance for the questions Muslims in Europe actually face.
Modern life raises questions the classical texts answer only through careful derivation. This department provides Islamic and Fiqh guidance grounded in the Qur’an, Sunnah and reliable Islamic sources, alongside Shariah guidance on divorce, Khula and family matters, and counselling aimed at holding families together rather than watching them break.
What this department does
Providing Islamic and Fiqh guidance on modern issues faced by Muslims in Europe, based on the Qur’an, Sunnah and reliable Islamic sources.
Shariah guidance and special courses on divorce, Khula and family matters.
Family counselling and educational programmes to help prevent the breakdown of families.
Strengthening Islamic values, mutual respect and the family system within families and society.
Head of the Dar-ul-Ifta
Mufti Qasim Zia al-Qādiri
The answers in our answer bank are written by Mufti Qasim Zia al-Qādiri. Read about his teaching, his students and what other scholars have said about his fatāwā.
The answer bank
890 published rulings across 37 topics
- Divorce
[Q-ID0882] I divorced my wife but she or nobody else knows, is the divorce valid?
What do the scholars of the Dīn and muftīs of the Sacred Law state regarding the following issue: If a person divorced his wife in privacy without any…
- Charity
[Q-ID0881] Must Zakah be given in cash form only or can we give other items instead?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم الجواب بعون الملک الوھاب اللھم ھدایة الحق والصواب It is not essential to use only money to pay Zakāh. One may give some food to a poor person instead or one…
- Guidance & Counsel
[Q-ID0880] What is the ruling on this internet personality by the name ‘Pir Chuff Chuff’ who claims to cure people by blowing into a microphone?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم الجواب بعون الملک الوھاب اللھم ھدایة الحق والصواب A person possessing the aforementioned characteristics is, according to the Shariah, a fake practitioner, a…
- Divorce
[Q-ID0879] I told my wife if she visits her parents house she is divorced, how do I end this condition?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم الجواب بعون الملک الوھاب اللھم ھدایة الحق والصواب When divorce is suspended due to being dependent upon a condition, so the condition cannot be revoked; the…
- Divorce
[Q-ID0878] I divorced my wife but she did not hear it, has divorce occurred?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم الجواب بعون الملک الوھاب اللھم ھدایة الحق والصواب When a husband divorces, it takes effect exactly at that very moment in time, whether the wife is in…
- Prayer Guidance
[Q-ID0877] If a group of us decide to pray salah individually instead of together will we be sinful?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم الجواب بعون الملک الوھاب اللھم ھدایة الحق والصواب If no one amongst them is qualified for Imāmah [leading the prayer], then there is no problem in them…
