QUESTION: If in congregation i realized at start of sujood that hands were not aligned parallel to each other so i tried to move them by dragging them on the ground twice, but doing this might have taken nearly half of the duration of the sujood, is my prayer valid, and am i overthinking?

Prayer
08 Jul

ANSWER: You need to bring a measuring rod or a ruler to ensure that your hands are aligned correctly!!! You are playing and not praying my friend. 

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QUESTION: If a bank gives me $100 in interest and deducts $20 for tax, I end up with $80 instead of $100. I want to give the interest to needy or poor people. Should I give the $80 or the original $100?

Riba
08 Jul

ANSWER: $80

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QUESTION: I took covid vaccine 2 years ago and people today are saying it’s bad for you. I’m starting to get worried. What should I do throughslamic perspective? Is covid vaccine safe as it was handed out in muslim countries?

Medicine and medical treatments
08 Jul

ANSWER: You had already taken it so what’s the point in worrying about it now…you can’t undo it now! I personally took it 3 times! 

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QUESTION: My father-in-law – wife’s father and husband of my maternal aunt, needed an urgent medical surgery which he couldn’t afford due to his financial condition. He has a home where he lives but no sellable property or savings. He lives on monthly pension money from Govt. job. Alhamdulillah, I was able to pay his medical treatment cost. Can I count this as Advance Zakat for my next Zakat year?

Zakat
07 Jul

ANSWER: This doesn’t count from zakat if you didn’t have that prior intention before paying it off

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QUESTION: I am an only son to my parents, married and working in gulf. My parents forcing me to quit working abroad and stay with them in my home country as they r aging n just retired. They also quote a hadith about parents right to stop their children from going to jung. But I don’t have job opportunity in my home town to provide sufficiently for my wife n children. Whom should I choose in this situation?

Fiqh of the family
07 Jul

ANSWER: If they are independent & self sufficient then you don’t have to obey them and if they need assistance then you can provide them a maid to look after their needs

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QUESTION: Father and brother bought me a phone and gave my old one to my mother saying that he bought both of us new phones. I did not know they were doing this or else i would have said no to getting a phone to myself. I told my mother after they had done all of this that they lied to you. Im not sure if i did the right thing or not but i do know that this is very wrong and unfair to her. Was i correct?

Fiqh of the family
07 Jul

ANSWER: Of course not! You put a seed of hatred in her heart towards your father & brother, that’s an evil thing to do!

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QUESTION: I saw your video of dirt under nails not effecting wudhu. Is my understanding that no matter how much dirt there is even if it touches the skin under the nail wudhu is valid ad long as it is considered under the nail?

Ablution (Wudhu), Purity
07 Jul

ANSWER: True!! It’s really unhygienic though & it’s mandatory to clip your nails within 40 days and even before that if your nails starts to grow!

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QUESTION: My quran teacher once told me that is permissible to recite subhana rabialaalah 3 ,5 or 7 times while in sajda Is this true

Prayer, Supplications
07 Jul

ANSWER: Saying it once is mandatory, 3 times is sunnah and sky is the limit 

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QUESTION: Is it permissible to touch a person who eats and drinks haram like alcohol and haram meat touch with a mahram person

Halal/Haram Matters
06 Jul

ANSWER: No problem as that person doesn’t physically become impure by consuming haram.

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QUESTION: In Hanafi madhab, when a man says before marriage,”If I marry so and so, she is divorced or any women I marry, is divorced.” Divorce takes place after marriage automatically. According to Quran, Sunnah and Salaf, is this view correct? Although I am a Hanafi, this doesn’t seem right to me.

Divorce, Schools of Thought
06 Jul

ANSWER: This is baseless and has no value as one can’t sell a thing he doesn’t possess and likewise, one can’t divorce someone he is not married to Once he marries, he can divorce after the marriage but not before it. 

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