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I heard a hadith(I dont know the narrator or source), which says that one should not look at mirror after evening and in the night. If one does so, he will loose his good look and will look ugly...Is this true?? Can you please help me with hadith quotes??

And is it true that if one looses his hairs from head, that reciting some particular verses of Quran some specific times will cure it??What is the remedy for this problem?

Next thing is that can a man marry his mother's brother's daughter or father's sister's daughter??

Please help me with all these questions..Please dont feel angry as I have asked all the questions at once. It is to avoid the wastage of time as I am a busy man.

Thanks and Salaam....

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Answer:

Looking mirror prohibited

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Your Question: I heard a hadith(I dont know the narrator or source), which says that one should not look at mirror after evening and in the night. If one does so, he will loose his good look and will look ugly...Is this true??

To the best of our knowledge, there is absolutely no such hadith in the records of the authentic and established Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saws). There is absolutely no restriction in Shariah regarding when one may or may not look at a mirror, nor does looking in a mirror at anytime or anyplace result in losing one’s good looks! These notions are no more than absolute falsehoods and mere self-invented superstitions which have absolutely no relation to the truth or reality.

Fiqh-us-Sunnah Fiqh 4.126

Ali ibn Abi Taalib (r.a.) reported that when the Prophet (saws) looked into a mirror he (saws) would say, "Praise and thanks be to Allah. O Allah, make me good mannered as You made me good looking." Anas ibn Malik (r.a.) reported that whenever the Prophet (saws) looked at his face in the mirror, he (saws) would say, "Praise be to Allah Who fashioned my nature and gave it a perfect form, and Who honored my face and made it good, and made me one of the Muslims."

Your Question: And is it true that if one looses his hairs from head, that reciting some particular verses of Quran some specific times will cure it??What is the remedy for this problem?

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 185:

Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was sent down: this Book is a Perfect Guidance for mankind and consists of clear Teachings which show the Right Way, and are a Criterion of the Truth and falsehood.

The Lord Most Majestic Most Supreme revealed the Glorious Quran as a perfect book of guidance for mankind; a Book which consists of clear teachings which show one the Straight Path that leads to the Mercy and Forgiveness of their Lord Creator; a Book which is the clear criterion between what is the Truth and what is falsehood.

The Lord Most High did not reveal the Glorious Quran to remove or address the physical ailments of mankind, but rather it was revealed to address the spiritual ailments and diseases like ‘shirk’ (polytheism), ‘kufr’ (disbelief), hypocrisy, etc. For one to believe, Allah forbid practice, that the recitation of the Glorious Quran would help grow their lost hair would be to make a complete mockery of the Glorious Revelations of Allah Subhanah!

Your Question: What is the remedy for this problem?

If one has a physical ailment or disease, prudence and intelligence would dictate that one consult and seek the advice and treatment from a doctor, or an expert in that particular field of medicine and science.

Your Question: Next thing is that can a man marry his mother's brother's daughter or father's sister's daughter??

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 4 Surah Nisaa verse 23:

23 Prohibited to you (for marriage) are: your mother, daughters, sisters, father's sisters, mother's sisters, brother's daughters, sister's daughters, foster-mothers (who gave you suck), foster-sisters, your wives' mothers, your step-daughters under your guardianship born of your wives to whom ye have gone in, no prohibition if ye have not gone in; (those who have been) wives of your sons proceeding from your loins, and two sisters in wedlock at one and the same time except for what is past; for Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful.

Dear and Beloved sister in Islam, cousins (regardless of they are maternal or paternal, first or second or third cousins, etc.) …. ‘cousins’ are not ‘mehrams’ or amongst those relations whom the All-Knowing, All-Wise Lord has forbidden to be sought in marriage; thus marrying one’s cousins is absolutely lawful and permissible in Shariah Law, if indeed one wishes to do so.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

Burhan