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QUESTION: If I can’t read arabic but I want to memorize surahs and duas, can I memorize them by help of transliteration of surahs?

Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran

08 Jun

ANSWER: It is not permissible to use transliteration to learn the Quran unless you use it while listening to the Quran from a reciter to check and learn your Quran properly

QUESTION: Is there any significance to the colour green in islam? I had heard it was the colour of Jannah

Other

08 Jun

ANSWER: No, what you had heard is baseless and not true

QUESTION: Sheikh, i still have this confusion about ghusl like do we have to wash the insides of the buttocks or is it enough to stand under the shower and watch reaches it like do we have to specifically wash inside as part of the ghusl ?

Purity

08 Jun

ANSWER: Water must reach all parts of your body! How you do this, this is your problem

QUESTION: If someone does a thing in salah which doesn’t need to perform sajdah al sahw but the person does sajdah al sahw for that thing is the prayer valid?

Prayer

07 Jun

ANSWER: No, its not valid because you added something that was not part of salah

QUESTION: I used to be good and was able to recite the Qur’an in flow but because of whispers of Shaitan (I guess) I have now almost lost the ability to read in a flow and with tajweed… ‎What can I do now with this situation and how can I again achieve my old recitation?

Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran

07 Jun

ANSWER: This is Satan trying to prevent you from reading and enjoying the Quran as you used to. You must not make him achieve his objective by fighting him and ignoring his whispers. Keep on reciting the Quran and trusting your recitation and he will soon disappear

QUESTION: Someone has dry lips. So if he peels the cracked residue from the lips, is it considered skin that is prohibited to remove for the person offering udhiyah?

Slaughtering

06 Jun

ANSWER: Yes

QUESTION: While moving within a country like from Riyadh to Dammam, when we qasar namaz, can we combine the earlier prayers with the following like can we pray zuhr with Asar and maghrib with Isha or do we have to combine only in this order like combine Asar after we are finished with zuhr?

Prayer

06 Jun

ANSWER: No problem in choosing either way as both are permissible

QUESTION: Is it permissible for a woman to please her husband by wearing the hijab and cover her beauty as this is what he wants from her?

Kind Treatment of Spouses, Women clothing

06 Jun

ANSWER: She must wear the hijab and cover her beauty in front of non mahrams as this is what Allah has ordered her to do! She would be pleasing Allah and pleasing her husband as well.

QUESTION: Sheikh, there is a horror game about surviving in a haunted hotel with monsters that try to kill you. The problem is that it contains a cross that can be used to make those monsters disappear. Is it okay if I completely avoid using that cross? Also, whenever it is used, a moon-and-star symbol appears. I’m not sure whether they intended it to represent Islam.

Sports, Entertainment and Music

06 Jun

ANSWER: You must not play such a game that is filled with such symbols of kufr

QUESTION: Is it sinful if me and my brother or uncle pray at the same level when we are not praying in congregation and are at home? If I am praying and he starts praying right next to me, should I move back slightly? Note that there is some distance between us where someone could stand. ‎

Prayer

05 Jun

ANSWER: No problem in this if you are all praying individually

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