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Is an overdraft haram?

Is an overdraft haram? Paying overdraft interest is riba. Flat fees are debated, 0% student overdrafts are usually fine. How to avoid it.

To make wudu on a plane, use a little water in the toilet and wipe over your socks. Step-by-step tips, plus what to do if water isn't possible.

Yes, you can get married in a mosque, and many Muslims do. What a mosque nikah involves, the wali, mahr, witnesses and the civil registration.

How to talk to your kids about puberty as a Muslim: start around 8-10, explain signs, ghusl, periods, wet dreams and new duties.

Muslims should cut their nails at least every 40 days, and most do it weekly. It's a sunnah of fitrah with no fixed day or time.

Gog and Magog (Ya'juj and Ma'juj) are huge nations held behind a barrier who will break out near the end of time, a major sign of the Hour.

A sutrah is an object like a wall, bag or chair placed in front of you in prayer to mark your space. What to use, its ruling and the imam's sutrah.

Muslim-friendly countries for travel include Muslim-majority places and cities with big Muslim communities. What to check before you book.

Mosques have minarets to call the adhan from a height and domes to cover big halls, but neither is required in Islam. Here's the history.

The Mahdi is a just leader from the Prophet's family who, according to hadith, will appear near the end of time and fill the earth with justice.

Nifas is the bleeding after childbirth, treated like a period: no prayer or fasting until it stops, at most 40 or 60 days, then ghusl.

The main parts of a mosque are the prayer hall, mihrab, minbar, wudu area, and often a dome and minaret. Here's what each one is for.