Do I need to put a sutra in front of me when I pray towards a wall (I mean I pray just in front of the wall)

Prayer
23 Oct

The wall serves as a sutra in this case.

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If a person makes a vow of doing some night adhkar forever then can he pays kaffara yemeen and finish the vow. The vow wasnt conditioned like, “if this happens then I ll always do night adhkaar always.”

Oaths
23 Oct

You must fulfill it as there is no legitimate reason not to!

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We are doing a project for our Quran class and thinking about making a video with us in it with hijab. Is this permisable if only our classmates see this video?

Women clothing
23 Oct

This is not permissible.

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I want to ask whether these statements below are considered an act of apostasy or blasphemy? 1-I will not do any ibadat for Allah (in deep grief and after your prayers were not accepted )? 2-Give lots of baddua to one of sayyed and his/her ancestors after getting harm from syed. 3-saying the words “Ya Prophet (SAW) if the descendants of Ahl e bait are behaving like this then how shall people follow Islam.

Apostasy
23 Oct

1. This is kufr 2. This is not kufr but it is disliked and repulsive. 3. This can be shirk, depending on his intention.

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If I have slept through my Fajr prayer or any other prayer by accident and I wake up and there is only few minutes left in the time for the Duhur prayer or any other prayer, should I pray my Fajr prayer in risk of missing the time for Duhur or should I catch Duhur in its time and then make up my Fajr after?

Prayer
23 Oct

You must pray the prayer of the present time so that you would pray it on its time and then make up for your prior missed prayer.

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there is a petition against banning the niqab in colleges in the UK. Are we allowed by Islam to sign this. If yes where from the sunnah or from the time of the salaf is this evident.

Other
23 Oct

Where in the sunnah or the salaf that going to college is permissible? You pay taxes, mix with the opposite gender, live in a kafir country and rule with other than the laws of Allah! When it comes to preventing evil through signing a petition, you have doubts?

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Is touching the Kaaba bidah, if a person does it with the love for the Kaaba for the sake of Allah. If it is not, are other intentions allowed and which intentions are not allowed.

Innovations
23 Oct

Expressing your love to it shouldn’t be done in ways not made by our Prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam as he is our role model. You can touch only the Yemeni corner and the black stone.

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dear sheikh, after now learning arabic more I have found out ibn saidi said that an islamic country is based on the ruling if its ruled by the sharia. Doesnt this make the most so called muslims lands are actually dar al kufr? like egypt, tunis, marocco.

Islamic Politics
23 Oct

No, these are not land of kufr as the majority living there are Muslims! The second step would be labeling the people of these countries as kafir!

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Is it Sahih? ‘Verily, for our Mahdi there are two signs which have never as yet concurred since the creation of the heavens and earth; first is the eclipse of the moon on the first night of Ramadan, and second is the eclipse of the sun during the middle of that same Ramadan. This (concurrence of a solar and lunar eclipse) has never happened since Allah created the heavens and earth.’ (Dare Qutni vol.2 p.65)

Commentary on Hadeeth
23 Oct

This is not authentic!

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Dear Sheikh, is it possible for someone to be gifted OR learn the ability to see the jinn-kind, AND/OR interact with them? For example, a healer interacting with a jinn who has possessed someone? If so, are they in accordance with the sunnah?

Jinn, Witchcraft, Black Magic and the Evil Eye
23 Oct

This is not possible and those who claim they can are soothsayers and imposters.

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