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Rethinking Cell Phones

By ABDUL AZIZ AHMED
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TECHNOLOGY IS ALLOWING us to do things we've never been able to do, and it's positively incredible," but it's also amazingly "addictive." We can occupy ourselves with it to the point of exhaustion. So writes Edward M. Hallowell, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) expert in Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD-and cell phones in particular are a case in point.  Let's be clear. Even the most ardent cell phone critic will acknowledge their usefulness in times of duress. Indeed, a whopping 83 percent said cell phones make life even easier than does the Internet (which garnered a huge 76 percent nod in the same survey), according to a 2005 University of Michigan study.

So, what's with all the negativity about cell phones? Or put in tech-eese, What's their counterintuitive disadvantage?

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Hajj for the Woman who Embarks on It Whose Husband Dies

Q: A woman decided to perform the obligatory pilgrimage, but when she had finished all the necessary procedures, her husband died. Should she perform the Hajj or would that not be permissible for her?

A: If a man dies, leaving his wife a widow, she must remain in her waiting period (`iddah) and in

official mourning (al-hidad) until her waiting period is over. If she is pregnant, her waiting period is until delivery, due to the following verse: "And for those who are pregnant, their waiting

period is until they deliver their pregnancy" [65:4]. This is also due to the established evidence from the Sunnah, specifically in the hadeeth of Subai`ah al-Aslamiyyah, whose husband passed away while she was pregnant and a few nights later she began post-partum bleeding and the Prophet, sallallahu alayhe wa sallam, permitted her to get married. If she is not pregnant, then her waiting

period is four months and 10 days, as Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has said: "And those of you who die and leave wives behind them, they shall wait for four months and ten days…"[2:234].

As such, it is not permissible for this woman to proceed with the acts of Hajj until this period has come to term. She may then prepare for Hajj in the coming year, by Allah's Permission. We ask Allah to grant us and her success and wisdom. And Allah knows best.

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