QUESTION: Is it permissible to throw money at  Weddings? As this is something that has become extremely common especially in South Asian.

Sports, Entertainment and Music
06 Apr

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited!  

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QUESTION: Wudo has two parts. One called “istinja”. But what the other calls ?

Ablution (Wudhu), Innovations
06 Apr

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and fabricated and it’s an innovation to do istinja before wudu.

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QUESTION: When making intention for prayer..can I just stand and say the takbir for Salah and start prayer as I know inside my heart that I have done wudu in order to pray that certain prayer?

Prayer
06 Apr

ANSWER: Yes, this is what you are supposed to do. 

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QUESTION: Can zakaa be paid to medical institution for treating problems like heart ailments and transplants.

Zakat
06 Apr

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible. It must be paid directly to the poor and needy. 

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QUESTION: Whats the ruling for women on fajr Sunnah prayer praying quickly? As our prophet pray fajr 2 rakkat sunnah quickly.

Prayer
05 Apr

ANSWER: Everyone should pray it quickly. 

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QUESTION: If I intend to pray shaf’i 2 rak’ah and then 1 rak’ah witr after it can I change my mind during prayer and make it 3 rak’ah witr? E.g., instead of sitting for the second rak’ah I get up and make the prayer witr. And vice versa, i.e., intending to pray 3 but making it 2 + 1 instead?

Prayer
05 Apr

ANSWER: No.

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QUESTION: In the beginning of Ramadan I’ve gotten really sick and the only way I’ve been able to get through the day was sleeping through most of my fast. If I go to school tomorrow I don’t think I’ll be able to finish myfast because I’d be awake all that time what should I do?

Fasting and Ramadan
05 Apr

ANSWER: This is not a valid reason to not fast! If you are sick and can’t fast, you can skip fasting. However, sick people do not go to school! 

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QUESTION: Someone sent me a birthday card (Online) to invite us. And when I I said that we don’t celebrate birthdays so we can’t come that person said we are actually not celebrating any birthday. It’s just a dinner. There won’t be a cake as well. Also, the actual birth date is 10 days before the day of celebration/dinner. What should we do? Are we allowed to go as we shouldn’t deny any invitation?

Halal/Haram Matters
05 Apr

ANSWER: If the invitation says it’s regarding birthday then you must not go. The invitation that must not be rejected is that of walima, providing you have no excuse to reject (it must be a halal function with no music, no free mixing between non mahrams etc)

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QUESTION: If someone is feeling lazy and having difficulty getting up to complete a task, is it authentic to say la lahawla walakuwata illa billah as a dua to help him complete the task?

Supplications
04 Apr

ANSWER: This is possible and a good thikr, below is the proper dua for laziness: The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) used to say: “Allaahumma inni a’oodhu bika min al-hammi wa’l-hazani wa’l-‘ajzi wa’l-kasali wa’l-jubni wa’l-bukhli wa dal‘ il-dayn wa ghalabat al-rijaal (O Allah, I seek refuge with You from worry, grief, incapacity, laziness, cowardice, miserliness, the heavy burden of debt and […]

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QUESTION: I sometimes have a thought maybe when i wear a mask or sniff a cloth or when in sujud ,that maybe I inhaled dust when fasting but I ignore it cause is something that can’t be avoided and even if it was there will feel it , I want to know I what I am doing is right .

Fasting
04 Apr

ANSWER: Yes. Dust does not break your fast.

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