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    If I am not in the state of janabah myself, will touching my husband’s semen obligate me to perform ghusl janabah?

    No, you are not required to perform ghusl.

    I am a male in my mid-thirties and have recently reverted to Islam, although my family has not. I have been with my partner for 15 years and have three children together, but we have never married. Is this seen as prohibited by Almighty Allah?

    There must be a marital relation between you two. Without marriage, sexual relationship with her is prohibited.

    If I go to a mosque or a shrine of an Imam and find a scholar whom I do not know leading prayers in front of a very large group of people, none of whom I know, is it permissible for me to pray with them in congregation? Or is it necessary for me to first get to know the scholar, spend time with him and so on to ascertain that he is adil?

    The Adalah of the imam must be considered before one offers congregational prayer. It can be determined by knowledge and certainty that originates from dealing with him or from other ways of reaching such knowledge, testimony of two Adil witnesses and by good apparent behavior. Having a big crowd that offer the prayer behind a person is not sufficient.

    Is the iddah period obligatory on a woman who used birth control pills during her previous marriage?

    If the marriage was consummated then observing ʿiddah is obligatory in all cases.

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