According to Quran/Hadith, what points to remember when choosing a bride/wife? http://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/1523/according-to-quran-hadith-what-points-to-remember-when-choosing-a-bride-wife?atw=1 #wife
How do banks make money if interest is prohibited? http://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/1509/how-do-banks-make-money-if-interest-is-prohibited?atw=1 #riba
We'll need to merge tags/clean up. In the answer below is a list of tags that need to be turned into synonyms.
Concerning which tag should be made 'dominant', this answer says:
The practice on similar sites (e.g. Judaism ) is to make the English word a synonym for the transliteration. In tha...
Merging is a moderator-only feature that effectively retags a bunch of questions without leaving any trace of the original in the revision history. Unless there are a lot of them, you can accomplish the same thing by editing. Synonyms prevent the use of a tag in the future by automatically changing it to the synonymous tag when the post or edit is submitted. — Shog93 mins ago
^^^ @yasar11732
Also,
Please post separate questions for each set of tags that should be retagged / destroyed. This becomes impossible to track otherwise. Use retag-request, burninate to categorize them. — Shog92 mins ago
a Big List 'o' Tags is only useful for a short time when handling massive cleanup efforts; normally you'll want room to discuss each tag set on its own merit
What guidelines should we impose on questions to ensure quality? http://meta.islam.stackexchange.com/questions/298/what-guidelines-should-we-impose-on-questions-to-ensure-quality?atw=1
There are some people that melt lead and pour it into cold water over a person's head believing that this would cure nazar and/or evil spiritual illness. If you don't understand what I mean, see this youtube video. Is this have any place in Islam?
See its really up to you guys to define whats allowed and whats not allowed to be asked but here are my two cents. This site is a good place to learn about Islam. Often people do things in the name of Islam which gives world the incorrect impression about what Islam is. Asking the justification or source of the ruling encouraging the behavior helps us learn about Islam.
Its not about proving whether certain group of people are right or wrong.
it's actually not to us. We're more of a police force than anything, operating on flagged and otherwise inappropriate posts and comments.
when it comes to defining what's allowed and not allowed, we have the same voice as anyone else in the Islam.SE community.
like the question I cited -- I am a diamond mod, and my question is closed as off-topic. That really underscores the horizontalness of the site -- we're all equals here.
Whether we call it on-topic or off-topic this question, it would make an example for future questions like this one, so we better give enough thought about this question.
If certain hadith is misinterpretted or verse is mistranslated to justify the behavior then it would also help a great deal in understanding the issue at hand
I stress its not question about Muslims, Its a question about a practice in Islam whether it is compatible, encouraged or has nothing to do with Islam.
to melt lead and pour it into cold water over the head -- have a place in Islam? http://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/1548/to-melt-lead-and-pour-it-into-cold-water-over-the-head-have-a-place-in-islam?atw=1 #bidah
@HasanKhan I disagree. I've been saying from the start that I want expert questions. To bring in a "how do they justify X" by itself is, in my opinion, not expert enough; anyone can ask that. Doing your homework first and bringing up points of discussion are what differentiate this from just random forums and easy questions.
Read all the comments on that question. That will help you understand better.
There are also similar questions closed. I think Robert set a good precedent.
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I think this question should be on-topic because it is asking for basis of a practice. It has been said that this question should be off-topic because "islam.SE is about Islam, not Muslims". However, what I understand from that is questions like "How many Muslims ar...
There are other questions on this site that pretty much define our scope. In Stack Overflow, this started with the famous "what is the favourite soft drink of programmers?" question. Which lead to the realization that tacking on "of programmers" could allow virtually any question to be asked.
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@Ansari how is it that the Barat question wasn't closed? It seems very similar.
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I think this question should be on-topic because it is asking for basis of a practice. It has been said that this question should be off-topic because "islam.SE is about Islam, not Muslims". However, what I understand from that is questions like "How many Muslims ar...
I recently closed a question which raises an issue we've only just been skirting around.
Remember that the purpose behind an "Islam Stack Exchange" is to build a compilation of knowledge about the subject of "Islam" — You cannot reasonably hope to cover any possible questions of interest t...
@ashes999 Ok, I read that and agree with that. But what I am not sure about is that if my question was in "extra curricular topics" Robert was talking about.
In Good Subjective, Bad Subjective, we made a pretty solid first stab at defining a constructive subjective question, one that I’ve been happy with so far.
Constructive subjective questions:
inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.
tend to have long, not short, answers.
have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.
invite sharing experiences over opinions.
insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references.
are more than just mindless social fun.
tend to have long, not short, answers.
have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.
invite sharing experiences over opinions.
insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references.
are more than just mindless social fun. …
Possible no answer -> "That practice began some-number years after prophet's (s.a.w) death and is based upon (something) tradition. In time, people started to think it has something to do with Islam"
if the question was worked like "Such-and-such scholar claims that the lead-in-water thing is valid. What were the evidences used to make this ruling?", i feel it would be perfectly fine.
But you don't know if you will get a no answer, that is point of asking in the first place. Even though no answer would be uninteresting, question itself might be interesting.
"Does Islam forbid eating cucumber sandwiches on Sunday?" "Is there any Islamic basis for programming on a boat?" "Were any of the early Muslims diabetic?"
Skeptics.SE gets around this problem by only fielding questions where the original claim is made by a reputable source. i.e., "some people doing it" is not a valid claimant.
I made a little bit of research today, a source claim that it has shamanistic roots. But I heard people recite al-falak and al-nas while doing it (along with lots of different things)
Problem is I can't find any English resource to show you, because I don't know what to search for. It has a name in Turkish, I am not sure if it has name in English.
reworking it to something like "Muslims in Turkey do such-and-such, and claim it's an Islamic practice. I've read through such-and-such and have never seen any evidence of this, so I was wondering where this practice comes from?" would be answerable.
the "yes" answer in that case would be just as interesting as your original question "yes it's islamically based because evidence evidence evidence"
the "no" answer in that case would also be interesting, "it's originally derived from evidence evidence evidence but there's little to no evidence linking it to the practices of the prophet or the sahaba"
so its on-topicness is just a issue of if it's about "islam" or "muslims". i feel it's on the on-topic side of that line, but that's just my opinion.
Great answer: What kind of pets can I keep in my house? http://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/610/what-kind-of-pets-can-i-keep-in-my-house/611?atw=1#611 #cleanliness
We'll need to merge tags/clean up. In the answer below is a list of tags that need to be turned into synonyms.
Concerning which tag should be made 'dominant', this answer says:
The practice on similar sites (e.g. Judaism ) is to make the English word a synonym for the transliteration. In tha...
There are some people that melt lead and pour it into cold water over a person's head believing that this would cure nazar and/or evil spiritual illness. If you don't understand what I mean, see this youtube video. Is this have any place in Islam?
I recently closed a question which raises an issue we've only just been skirting around.
Remember that the purpose behind an "Islam Stack Exchange" is to build a compilation of knowledge about the subject of "Islam" — You cannot reasonably hope to cover any possible questions of interest t...
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