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QUESTION: Young salafi adult male feels lonely and like a stranger among his relatives and parents. They are barelwis and engage in sin. They don’t know about his ‘conversion’. He wants to ask Allah 4 death but doesn’t becoz its haram. His tests are hard and is patient. He feels weak and wants your advice.

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners

19 Dec

ANSWER: Allah has chosen him to be among His righteous servants, which is the greatest blessing he might have in this life. Allah has created him to worship Him, and to make his goal to please Allah and enter paradise, focusing on the difficulties will make him weak and will stop him from continuing his […]

QUESTION: I heard a scholar say that you dont get rewarded if people accept Islam from your dawah. You get rewarded from Allah’s mercy because you gave dawah. My question is: Doesn’t this contradict the hadith which states that if someone accepts Islam at your hands then you will get all the reward for his good deeds? How do you reconcile this?

Knowledge & Propagation

19 Dec

ANSWER: What this scholar said is totally wrong. The prophet (ﷺ) said: I swear on Allah, it will be better for you that Allah should give guidance to one man through your agency than that you should acquire the red ones among the camels.

QUESTION: As regards, 2 units of suna before fajr, when you are lait and the jamaa is on for the fajar fard prayer is that you pray suna first and then join the fard or join the fard first. what are the thoughts of scholars in this regard.as a moulana from the sub continent says according to Hanafi and Maliki you can pray suna first and then join the congregation of fard

Prayer

19 Dec

ANSWER: You must join the fard prayer and after that can pray the Sunnah. Whoever prays it while the congregation is going on, his prayer is invalid.

QUESTION: Is it possible for a person to give his own self evil eye? By admiring or being amazed by something that he has, and not saying mashaaAllah laa quuwata illaa billah

Jinn, Witchcraft, Black Magic and the Evil Eye

18 Dec

ANSWER: Yes, this is possible.

QUESTION: Many of my foods (as a student living alone I eat lots of prepared food) there is garlic powder & garlic (+ sometimes onion) mentioned in the ingredients, eg in virtually all noodle tomtato sauce or in pizza, or in the ketchup sauces or mayo/barbeque sauce etc. Do all of these fall under the rule of garlic & thus prohibition of congregational prayer, or is it literally only RAW garlic and onions?

Prayer

18 Dec

ANSWER: The ruling is only for raw onions and garlic and when someone can smell it and it is offensive smell that annoys other worshippers.

QUESTION: Sheikh, when combining prayer during travelling, do i pray dhuhr 2 rakats,salaam then immediately asr 2 rakats? Please clarify on the right way if I understood it wrong

Prayer

17 Dec

ANSWER: It is best to say your athkar after thuhur then offer Asr and then do your athkar after it as well.

QUESTION: When praying behind the imam, do we have to stand first on the right of the imam ? Or can we stand on either side of the imam?

Prayer

16 Dec

ANSWER: You must stand right behind the imam and then to right and then left so that the Imam is in between the congregation.

QUESTION: If I fast and ate out of forgetfulness it’s ok, but what if I ate a lot?

Fasting

16 Dec

ANSWER: If you didn’t remember while eating then the fast is valid, even if you ate a whole meal.

QUESTION: I know it’s mustahab to delay isha until just before midnight. My question is what is the earliest time I can pray Isha bit still get the reward for delaying isha? Like if isha is at 6:47 and midnight is at 11:15, would I get the reward if I delayed isha till 8 o’ clock. What about 9, what about 10

Prayer

16 Dec

ANSWER: The closest to midnight you pray, more the reward you get.

QUESTION: Does openly sinning with a group of friends constitute as kuffr even though every single person believes it is haram and has remorse but they still fall into sin

Sins

16 Dec

ANSWER: Kufr is disbelief. Sinning is sinning! The prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam said: all sons of Adam are sinful. Does this mean that they have committed kufr? Of course not! Insisting on sinning while believing that such sins are still haram is sinful and not kufr.

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