Rulings on mosques

QUESTION: Can I recite dua after adhan when it’s time for adhan but I can’t hear it due to rain? Will it be bidah if I do it?

20 Oct

ANSWER: The sunnah is to repeat after a live athaan and say the dua after hearing it. If you can’t hear it, you shouldn’t say the duaa. If you are a male, you can call the athan yourself and say the duaa.

QUESTION: Are mosques under apartments, considered mosques?

Rulings on mosques

10 Oct

ANSWER: Prayer halls or rooms are not a masjid as these can be changed any time by the owner to something else

Sheikh as much as I would like to reply to the Adhaan, I am not able to as the place where I live many Adhaans go off at the same time and it gets confusing as you cannot hear even one of them clearly and it gets difficult to reply to it, so can I just say the Adhaan dua without replying to it?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

15 Jul

ANSWER: You should reply to the adhan first. Try to focus on one and say that whole athan.

Do we recite the dua to enter a masjid upon entering the masjid premises or while entering the prayer area?

Rulings on mosques, Supplications

25 Jun

ANSWER: While entering the main entrance.

I work as a khadim in a typical hanafi mosque in Bangladesh. Sm tym people may come and order me 2 announce thru the loudspkr death news, missing news, finding-some-missing-thing-in-the-masjid news and so on. I know announcing these is not permissible in the masjid. If I deny them I may get fired as I am a weak person. wht 2 do?

Halal/Haram Matters, Rulings on mosques

17 May

ANSWER: It is not permissible for you to do that.

Sheikh, the hanafi mosque near me has a chart of Allah’s names and “ya allah” in Arabic written. On the left side there is “ya Muhammed” with a chart of his names. They celebrate mawlid and do bidah like shab e barat and dua after prayer and the imam looks like a normal imam, can I pray behind them?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

11 Apr

ANSWER: You are praying behind a person and not behind a masjid! What counts is the the aqeedah of the imam. If you don’t know his aqeedah, the default is that he is muslim until proven otherwise.

I prayed jumuah and accidentally took someone else’s shoe which looked like mine. then i realized and i used the shoe for some days now I’m not using it anymore. and i tried to find the guy but didn’t find him. what should i do?

Character and Morals, Rulings on mosques

24 Mar

ANSWER: You shouldn’t have used it all these days! Go back to the masjid and try to see if he comes and brings your shoes. If not, give in charity the equivalent of the value of the shoe on his behalf.

Sheikh, is it Mandatory to enter the Masjid with right foot first and then the left foot next? And leaving with the left foot first and then the right foot next? And also what is the Du’a to be said when entering the Masjid and when leaving the Masjid?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques, Supplications

13 Mar

ANSWER: This is the sunnah. The authentic duaa is to say: bismillah, Allahumma salli Ala Mohammed, allahumma iftahli Abwab rahmatic when entering and something similar to that when exiting.