QUESTION: Sheikh, I have a habit of biting my inner lip or my inner cheek and sometimes very small pieces of skin can be bitten off, sometimes it would also be too small to remove from the mouth, would swallowing this break the fast?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
03 Mar

ANSWER: Yes, swallowing this intentionally would break your fast

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QUESTION: Which is better? To pray 11 rakats at tahajjud reciting short ayats or 4 rakats reciting long ayats? Praying for 30mins.

Prayer
03 Mar

ANSWER: Standing in prayer longer is better.

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QUESTION: I calculate zakat once year and this year I’m below the silver nisab due to the silver price hike. Do i now recheck and pay next year or as soon as price rises and I’m over the nisab

Zakat
03 Mar

ANSWER: You are not obliged to give zakat as you don’t have the nisab.  Once you reach the nisab, this is when you start counting for a lunar year to give your zakat after one year.

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QUESTION: If someone has a habit of picking at their skin, so they pick at their pimples and their scabs purposely and blood and comes out, does that break their fast? For example, If they pick at their skin, hoping not to draw blood and blood ends us coming out, is their fast broken?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
26 Feb

ANSWER: This has no impact on their fast

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QUESTION: I’m from Bangladesh. My question is about praying witr salat. In ramadan we pray witr in jamat right after taraweeh. 1.Prophet muhammad pbuh said, whoever prays with imam until he finishes, it will be recorded for him as if he prayed the whole night. 2. In another hadith he pbuh said Make the last of your prayer at night witr. when should i Pray witr?

Fasting and Ramadan, Prayer, Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl
24 Feb

ANSWER: Pray it with the Imam in Taraweeh and if you want to pray home when you go home, you can while not repeating Witr.

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QUESTION: I know that the hadith about salat-al-tasbih is not authentic. But on Thursday at my school, they’re gonna make us pray it and they’re forceful about it. Will I be sinful if I attend the prayer?

Innovations, Prayer
24 Feb

ANSWER: You must not partake in it. Simply stay home that day

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QUESTION: Im working in cafe.they give leftovers food to charity organisations. But some days the van not come to collect food. So that day our management says to throw all food in garbage and make video of throwing for proof. But some staff keep new clean garbage bag and make video of throwing food and then take that bag out side the shop,sharing food and eat. Can i join them to eat, is this halal ?

Halal/Haram Matters
20 Feb

ANSWER: No problem as its haram to throw good food

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QUESTION: Were the Jews who wanted to kill prophet Isa alehi salam or were the Romans wanted to kill the prophet?

Belief in the Messengers, Religions
19 Feb

ANSWER: The Jewish leaders of the time, in cooperation with the Roman authorities, attempted to kill Prophet Isa (Jesus), but Allah saved him, and he was not killed or crucified. https://islamqa.info/en/answers/224199

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QUESTION: Is fasting obligatory for a woman who weighs 38 kilos, is 160 cm tall, has anemia, and struggles to eat two meals a day?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
17 Feb

ANSWER: Fasting is mandatory upon every Muslim individual who has reached puberty and is free from obstacles that prevent him/her from fasting such as traveling, menses or illness that doctors say that fasting would harm or endanger a person if they were to fast.

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QUESTION: If during fasting, after a long time in the day, there are deposits on the teeth that feel sticky when the teeth are pressed together, and one swallows them, does it break the fast?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
17 Feb

ANSWER: If its a mass and you swallow it intentionally then yes, it breaks the fast.

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