QUESTION: I pray 4 rakah of doha prayer only but i was thinking to pray more but sitting. Iam healthy ALHAMDULILLAH but want to pray more nawafil sitting so can i pray doha nawafil while sitting on chair or sitting on foor ?

Prayer
14 Feb

ANSWER: You can pray the voluntary prayers while sitting but you will lose half the reward if you didn’t have a genuine reason for doing so.

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QUESTION: I experience spotting before my periods. For example, At Maghrib time I had discharge so I wash and change my pad, take wudu and pray. At Isha time there was no discharge so I proceed to pray. Then while praying I feel discharge. I cannot be certain of what it is untill I look. What is the correct procedure for this regarding my salah?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Prayer, Purity
14 Feb

ANSWER: If you check immediately after prayers and see spotting, you need to clean yourself, renew your wudhu and repeat that prayer.

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QUESTION: I am confused regarding the hadith of Abu Hurairah in the hadith book Adab al-Mufrad, where he tells a man to avoid three actions in front of his father. So regarding not sitting before him, is a Muslim obliged to stand up when his father comes in to the room and he is sitting down or if they are both sitting and the father gets up for a reason like going to the bathroom?

Character and Morals, Fiqh of the family
10 Feb

ANSWER: This is regarding when they both enter a room like when visiting friends or relatives and the son disrespects his father by sitting before him. 

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QUESTION: I found a quote unquote student of knowledge that highlighted the issues of Muawiya (May Allah be pleased with him) saying He used to curse Ali or the people of time used to curse Ali and He also states that Ibn Taymiyyah (Rahmiullah) was a Sufi, and says that he called Abdullah ibn Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) an innovator. Should knowledge be taken from such a person?

Sects
10 Feb

ANSWER: Of course not!! This guy is not a scholar, rather a deviant sufi or a Rafidah Shia, you must run away from him like you run away from the plague!

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QUESTION: Sheikh, You previously said that the punishment for adultery is stoning to death, however in the quran 24:2 it is ordered to givve them a 100 lashes. What is the proper ruling? the quran or the hadith

Pre-Marital Relations, Punishments
10 Feb

ANSWER: Real Muslims usually do not differentiate between Quran and hadeeth as they are from the same source!  The quran speaks about a fornicator who had never got married.  The sunnah refers to stoning a person who commits adultery whether married, widowed or divorced.

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QUESTION: I am aware that Jews are permitted to pray in our mosques. If there are no mosques nearby, are Muslims allowed to pray in a synagogue?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques
10 Feb

ANSWER: Yes, we can pray anywhere on earth as long as the place is physically pure and there are no statues in it. 

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QUESTION: Can we apply Vaseline while fasting, if so, what happens if you lick your lips, would this invalidate fasting if you didn’t taste anything or didnt feel any mass or taste?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
10 Feb

ANSWER: No problem in applying it as long as you don’t swallow or eat it.

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QUESTION: My father bought a land while he was alive and registered it in my brother’s name in order to avoid taxes. Now that my father passed away, my brother won’t split it between the siblings as he claims that the land belong to him. What is the ruling on this?

Inheritance
09 Feb

ANSWER: If the land was only put in your brother’s name to avoid taxes and not genuinely gifted with possession, then it is inheritance and must be divided among all heirs. Your brother keeping it all is haram and unjust and he is a thief for doing this. All what he gets from this land […]

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QUESTION: before the battle of camel Ayesha went to do the hajj i dont know the name of the mahram that went with her and what do u have to say abt ayesha returning after the battle if that was the case if u say that women are obliged to travel with a mahram

Hajj and Umrah
09 Feb

ANSWER: I did not say that women need a mahram to travel with!  This was the prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam who said this. Now, I don’t know who you want to follow; the prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam or anyone else! I, as a Muslim, I only follow the teachings of the […]

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QUESTION: While praying 2 rakah of sunnah prayer, By unconsciously I stood up directly for 3rd rakah n recited surah fatiha then while standing i remembered my mistake of praying extra so immediately i seated down to tashahud n then did sujood as sahw before salaam. So what I did is correct or do I need to finish that 3rd rakah properly even though i remembered?

Prayer
09 Feb

ANSWER: What you did by sitting immediately as soon as you realised was the right thing to do, however you should have done sujood as sahu after salam and not before. Your prayer is valid though.

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