Sheikh, in wudu is it sufficient to just put water to enter the nose and gently rise water around the mouth or must we do so that it reaches every single spot?

Ablution (Wudhu)
16 May

ANSWER: 1. As for the nose, you must fill up your nasal cavity as much as you can with water, without harming yourself and blow it out vigorously unless you are fasting, in which case you must not exaggerate the sniffing of water.

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Can a muslim interpret the Qur’an in defferent ways?

Reading/Reciting the Quran
15 May

ANSWER: The Quran is not subject to one’s own interpretation. You must read the tafseer and understand it in light of the Sunnah with the understanding of the 3 favored generations.

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Is it permissible to sell currency on an agreed exchange rate different from the official exchange rate for profit?

Halal/Haram Matters
15 May

ANSWER: This is permissible only if it is hand to hand simultaneously and if it is not illegal.

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Sheikh…if a person stands instead of sitting for tashahhud in second rakah of fajr salah and after standing he remembers ..what should he do ..sit back to tashahhud or something else

Prayer
15 May

ANSWER: He must sit back immediately, make tashahhud and make sujood as sahu at the end after salam and make another salam. 

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My dad is employed n businessman but now he is stuck,what he gets is not enough,he has a lot of debts & now he has stuck in city where he works bcoz he don’t have money to put petrol in his car and come home.I have my Jewerly zakkat am I allowed to give him cash just to buy petrol?I don’t have any extra cash to give as sadaqa apart from zakkat cash.

Zakat
15 May

ANSWER: This is not permissible. Sell some of your gold and give it to your father who had given you his life!

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Can we pray in congregation at home before the azan of mosque?

Prayer
15 May

ANSWER: If the time of prayer has begun for sure, then yes.

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While reciting last 3 chapters in morning and evening adhkar and after fard salah, is there any order of reciting it like first we recite surah ikhlas 3 times then surah falak 3 times and then surah naz 3 times or we have to recite set wise (surah ikhlas, surah falak and surah naz) one time then again reciting this set? Please guide

Supplications
14 May

ANSWER: There is no set order.

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What is Laylatul Qadr? What are the acts that we are encouraged to do in this night?

Articles, Fasting, Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl
14 May

Laylatul Qadr is the Night of Decree. It is one of the last ten nights of Ramadan. The last ten nights begin from the sunset of the 20th day of Ramadan. So, if today is the 20th and the sunset or the Maghrib is an hour from now, once the sun sets, this begins the […]

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My husbands family do not like me at all because i am a different race they have made fun of me and bullied me countless times.i have tried for years to have patience and be kind to them however the pressure and bullying got so bad i got really sick with my pregnancy. I am pregnant again and could get same sickness from stress what should i do islamically.

Dealings and Attitudes with In-Laws
14 May

ANSWER: You are not obliged to keep ties with them as they are not from among those Allah has ordered you to uphold ties of kinship with. No problem in keeping a healthy distance from them and giving them salam whenever you see them. People who bully you want to upset you and hear an […]

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My siblings r continuously using phone for time pass like playing games etc in Ramadan also instead of doing Ibadah.If I’m telling them to do ibadah,they r doing for just minutes and continuing the same and sometimes not listening…so what should I do to make them bzy in ibadah, pious or religious…???

Fasting, Fiqh of the family
14 May

ANSWER: There is nothing you can do but to advise them with good manners, wisdom, knowledge, and diplomacy. Leave them alone and focus on your own! 

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