QUESTION: Is praying on home clothes or pijama permissible? These are clothes we would never use on the masjid or ocassions, but they are the most comfortable specially at home. Is this disrespectful as we are standing before Allah?

Men Clothing, Prayer, Women clothing
30 Jan

ANSWER: No problem in this as long as they are pure and covers the awrah

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QUESTION: If my intention for studying worldly knowledge is only to give lots of money in sadaqah by getting a high-paying job, would all the time and hard work I spend in studying be turned into good deeds for me?

Character and Morals, Charity
30 Jan

ANSWER: Yes, in sha Allah, as long as its halal knowledge and halal work

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QUESTION: Before prayer I ate a date and in prayer I felt the skin of the date the very thin one like paper stuck in my tooth. So I tried to remove it with tounge and accidentally swallowed it. Does this break prayer since its very small

Prayer
29 Jan

ANSWER: If you accidentally swallowed it, it doesn’t invalidate the prayer. You should be more careful from now

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QUESTION: Sheikh when a person is a traveller and he combines Magrib and Isha right after the Magrib Adhan and before the Isha Adhan can he also pray Witr after he prays Isha which would be before the Isha Adhan or should he still wait until the Isha Adhan is called to pray Witr?

Prayer
28 Jan

ANSWER: No problem as he had prayed his isha 

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QUESTION: Is the hadith authentic where it says that whoever leaves something for the sake of Allah سبحانه و تعالى, He will replace it with something better.

Character and Morals, Commentary on Hadeeth
28 Jan

ANSWER: This is authentic 

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QUESTION: I am a 19 yr old man, live with my parents and siblings. I would like to pray fajr in the masjid, and although I havent asked, I am 99% certain my father would not allow it. Do I still get the ajr for sitting on my prayer mat and remembering Allah until after sunrise, and praying two raka’aat?

Fiqh of the family, Prayer
28 Jan

ANSWER: No! It applies only when you’re in the masjid! And you’re an adult now and you don’t need your father’s permission to go out!  You must pray in the masjid as this is mandatory for you if the masjid is within the vicinity of your home.

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QUESTION: If I am praying on my own, and while praying, a group comes and forms congregation and starts praying but I continue praying on my own without joining them, is my prayer valid?

Prayer
28 Jan

ANSWER: Its valid They should have joined you! You also could have changed your intention to sunnah prayer and concluded it to join them

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QUESTION: Sheikh, when we make a dua on a daily basis, we may not focus on what we are saying. Is it true that during making dua, if we focus on what we are saying, that would be more effective?

Supplications
27 Jan

ANSWER: Yes

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QUESTION: How many times should we recite ” لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ، لَهُ الْمُلْكُ وَلَهُ الْحَمْدُ وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ ” for morning and evening adhkar? Is it 10 times or 100 times?

Supplications
27 Jan

ANSWER: It is 10 times after every fard prayer and 100 times in the morning and in the evening. 

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QUESTION: I haven’t married yet, don’t have beard, but I am completely a man. Most of the men’s chest is in the same level of their belly. But for me, chest is seems to be big. I am not a bodybuilder or very fat. My friends noticed it&asked, I felt shame&avoid bathing with them. I have to go through a medical test with a group of males, Any Islamic solution?

Men Clothing, Other
27 Jan

ANSWER: This is called man boobs and a lot of men have it and there is nothing to be ashamed of.  You should do a lot of pushups to tone it down and make it look firm and manly  Start with 10 pushups a day for a week, then add 5 every week until you […]

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