Question on using deodorant while fasting

Question
If one intentionally uses deodorant spray knowingthat you are fasting
and then despite your efforts to hold your breath or cover your mouth
and nose with a cloth you still inhale and you feel the smell strongly
on your nose, will the fast still break and will the kaffarah have to
be performed?
And is intentionally deodorant is used but oneforgets to take measures
to prevent inhalation will the fast break then?
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Answer:
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu 'alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
In principle, if one uses a deodorant spray or any other spray that
has a chemical form and makeup in the state of fasting and such a
spray passes one's throat while fasting unintentionally, then one's
fast is not broken.
However, if such sprays pass one's throat intentionally, then one's
fast is broken on account of such an action. [1]
Since the passing of such sprays is unintentional in both the
scenarios in reference, one's fast is still valid.
If one's fast is brokendue to the intentionalinhalation and passing
down of suchsprays, then both Qadha and Kaffarah becomes Wajib. [2]
We advise one to be more cautious and careful when using such sprays
as they could jeopardize one's fast.
And Allah Ta'āla Knows Best/

Should one return salaams to aparrot?!

In my grandfather's house thereis a real live parrot, and when I pass
by it, it greets me and says 'al-salaamu 'alaykum". In this case do I
have to return the greeting of this bird?.
Praise be to Allaah.
Firstly:
Al-Fayyoomi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
The babgha' (parrot) is a well-known bird. The word babgha' may be
masculine or feminine, and the plural is Babghawaat.
Al-Misbaah al-Muneer fi Ghareeb al-Sharh al-Kabeer, 1/35
Secondly:
It seems that it is not prescribed to return the greeting of a parrot
which has learnt how to say salaams, because saying salaam is an act
of worship and a supplication which requires intention on the part of
the one who said it, and there is no suchintention on the part of this
trained creature. So one should not return its greeting. The ruling is
the same as that on a tape on which the greeting is recorded and can
be heard. It is transmission of sound and doesnot come under the
ruling on greeting when it is broadcast live, in which case returning
thegreeting is prescribed and is a communal obligation (fard
kifaayah).
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-'Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
Sometimes the greeting may be recorded and they put it on the tape and
run it. If it is recorded then you are not obliged to return the
greeting, because thisis just transmission of sound.
Liqa' al-Bab al-Mmaftooh, 28/229
See the rest of the fatwa and details on this issue in the answer to
question number 128737 .
Based on that, the parrot does not intend to give the greeting of
salaam, because it does not possess the power of reason, and when it
speaks it is just repeating what it has been taught, without meaning
what itsays.
Some of the scholars have stated that it is not prescribed toprostrate
if one hears a verse from a parrot or from a recorded tape.
One of the conclusions of the book Bahjat al-Asma' fi Ahkaam al-Samaa'
fi'l-Fiqh al-Islami by Prof. 'Ali ibn Dhariyaan ibn Faaris al-Hasan
al-'Anzi (published by Dar al-Manaar in Kuwait) is:
The listener need not do the prostration of recitation if he hears it
from a source that is nothuman, such as a trained bird like a parrot
or hearing it from an echo. End quote.
And Allah knows best.

It is haraam for a man to shake hands with a non-mahram woman in the Maaliki madhhab

I want to know in what reference it says that Imam Maalik forbade a
man to shake hands with a non-mahram woman.
There is an opinion which says that there are four possible scenarios,
and in only one is it regarded as haraam for a man to shake hands with
a non-mahram woman. These four scenarios are: when the one who is
shaking hands does it for the sake of pleasure and finds pleasure in
it; when he does it for the sake of pleasure but does not find
pleasure in it; when he does not do it for the sake of pleasure but
finds pleasure in it; and when he doesnot do it for the sake of
pleasure and does not find pleasure in it.
Who is the author of this opinion? Does he belong to the Maaliki madhhab?.
Praise be to Allaah.
Firstly:
In Mukhtasar al-Akhdari and other Maaliki books there is an indication
that it is haraam to shake hands with a non-mahram woman according to
the madhhab of Maalik (may Allah have mercy on him).
'Aleesh said in Minah al-Jaleel Sharh Mukhtasar Khaleel (1/22): It is
not permissible for a man totouch the face or hand of a non-mahram
woman, and it is not permissible for them to put their hands together
without a barrier. 'Aa'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: The
Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) never accepted the
oath of allegiance (bay'ah) of a woman by holdingher hand; he would
accept women's oath of allegiance verbally. According to another
report: His hand never touched the hand of a woman; rather he would
accept their oath of allegiance verbally. End quote.
Secondly:
The details that you mentioned have to do with losing wudoo' by
touching; wudoo' is broken in the event of seeking pleasure,or finding
pleasure (even if he was not seeking it), or seeking itand finding it.
Wudoo' is not broken when one does not seekpleasure or find it.
The prohibition is connected to doing it deliberately, whether there
is pleasure or not.

And Allah knows best.

2a] What Do Muslims Believe about Jesus?

2a]
:-> So believe in Allah and His messengers . . . " (Qur'an 4:171; see
also 66:12).
In the above passage Jesus in called by four noble titles. He is the
Messiah, the Messenger of Allah, a Word from Allah, and a Spirit from
Allah. In the same passage, it is clear that the Qur'an seeksto
discourage exaggeration in religion. Further in the same passage,
Allah says:
"Allah is only One God. Faris it removed from His transcendent majesty
thatHe should have a son. His is all that is in the heavens and all
that is in the earth. And Allah is sufficient as Defender" (Qur'"an
4:171).
Refusing to call Jesus son of God is not done with a view to belittle
Jesus. No! On the contrary, it is done to Glorify God, to magnify His
name, and to proclaimHis transcendent majesty.
The Qur'"an confirms that Jesus was born of a virgin.When the angel
announced to Mary, on whom be peace, that she will bear a child, she
said:
"My Lord! How can I have a child when no mortal has touched me"
She received the following reply:
"So (it will be). Allah creates what He will. If Hedecrees a thing, He
says unto it only: Be! and it is. (Qur'"an 3: 45, 47).
In another surah, after relating the incidents surrounding the birth
of the Messiah, the Qur'"an concludes as follows:
"It befits not (the majesty of) Allah that He should take unto Himself
a son. Glory be to Him! When he decrees a thing, He says unto it only:
Be! and it is."" (Qur'an 19:35).
The Qur'an seeks to correct a common misconception in the minds of
people. Many assume that since Jesus had no father then God must be
his father.
Glory be to Allah. He does not father children. He created everyone we
know from a man and a woman. But He created Adam from neither a man
nor a woman. And He created Eve from a man, but not from a woman.
Then, as if to complete the picture, God created Jesus from a woman
but not from a man. God has demonstrated His power to create in every
way.
Allah says:
"Lo! the likeness of Jesus with Allah is as the likeness of Adam. He
created him from dust, then he said unto him: Be!and he is" (3:59).
It is important to realise that Jesus, on whom be peace, never taught
that he is the Son of God. Allah says that those who call Jesus "Son
of God" are following the saying of other people (see surah 9:30).
Jesus taught only what he was commanded(5:117). He himself was quite
pleased with being a servant of Allah (4:172). As a messenger of
Allah, Jesus knew that none in the heavens or the earth can approach
Allah exceptas a slave (19:93).
Finally, those who say that God has a son should know that they have
no warrant for this, but they are saying something without knowledge
(10:68).
In the next part,
God willing, we will see from acareful study of the Bible that Jesus
never called himself God's son.