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QUESTION: At school, I don’t have the space to pray.So I go to the nearest mosque on my lunch break to pray dhuhr as soon as it starts.But I don’t have the time to wait for the jama’a as I’d miss my next class, so I pray seperately, on my own. Sometimes the jama’ah starts while I’m still praying on my own, is it permissible to continue praying? I also don’t know how to pray in congregation correctly yet

Prayer

25 May

ANSWER: If you are a female, no problem in praying on your own even if the jamah starts because its not mandatory on women to pray in the masjid in congregation.

QUESTION: When I’m offering Salah and the surah I recite after surah fateha has a sajdah in it (e.g. surah Alaq), do I perform sajdah right away and then get back up and go for the rukuh or do I offer prayer like I always do and after saying assalamualaikum wa rehmatullah (complete in the Salah), I stand up and do sajdah separately? Please guide.

Prayer, Reading/Reciting the Quran

25 May

ANSWER: You do it immediately (if you wish, since doing it is not mandatory) and then go to ruku and continue the prayer. You must not do it after the prayer is over as the time has passed for it.

QUESTION: My question is about the delay in my earnings. Alhamdulillah, i work as a freelancer, i got a job in a company where i work as a content writer hourly based. After first 5-6 days of Ramadan i got no work neither from company nor any individual project. I’m so worried please advice what to do

Jobs

25 May

ANSWER: Be patient and think positively of Allah and rizq will come your way as long as you are doing your best and looking.

QUESTION: Sheikh did I leave Islam if I said what justice is this to Allah or you like to bother me as I face life? I repeated shahada had and have left Islam anxiety.

Apostasy

23 May

ANSWER: Yes, you have left the fold of Islam if you had said this to Allah complaining of His decree.

QUESTION: My fiancé studies in a freemixing university and gets angry when I tell her not to freemix and not to upload pictures with boys as audience. I love her very much and want to marry her. Shaykh, I’m very depressed as I don’t want her to freemix. What to do Shaykh ? My heart breaks when boys see her but I love her more than anything except my mother.

Engagement, Pre-Marital Relations

23 May

ANSWER: You are sinful for communicating with this woman as she is a non mahram to you and she is not yet your wife. You must stop all communications with her. The prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam had told us that there are 3 categories of people who won’t enter paradise and he mentioned […]

QUESTION: Sheikh, I have a question that many dirty & filthy thoughts come to my mind, I try to think or do something else, but it comes back, how do I completely prevent them from coming to my mind, I am 15 years old.

Other

23 May

ANSWER: You must ignore such thoughts as these are from Satan trying to corrupt your mind and distract you from finding the sweetness of prayers and recitation of the Quran. Try to occupy yourself with remembering Allah and learning more about Islam while surrounding yourself with righteous practicing Muslims all the time. Try not to […]

QUESTION: In college we had a function and our performance got on youtube somehow. I now do regret it, did tauba immensely but can’t remove it from there. Now I plan to counter that continuous sin with sadaqa jariyah is that ok for me to do? Like sponsor quran hafiz, set up well etc. I don’t want to ruin my grave life for that and want to minimize that sin anyhow. Deen is most important to me now.

Social Media

23 May

ANSWER: No problem.

QUESTION: Is it shirk to keep the soft copy of the photo of a deceased on a phone or PC? If a person doesn’t talk to it or address it, will it be considered as shirk? What about storing old photos or old things as memory?

Funerals, Images and image-making

23 May

ANSWER: This is not shirk. It is prohibited and sinful though.

QUESTION: In today’s generation in Muslim community people of groom side ask for dowry indirectly by taking dawat from them, they ask the bride’s father to give dawat for 200/250 people for iftar etc etc , not thinking about their middle class situation. What kind of sin is it that those rich groom side in laws taking money off from the bride even though her mahr isn’t even equal to the cost her father give

Dowry

23 May

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited and the father of the bride must not concede to that as this is part of Hinduism and has nothing to do with Islam.

QUESTION: In a building which has 2 floors, the first floor is doctors office and the the 2nd floor is a masjid. Is it ok to pray Jumuah in that masjid?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

23 May

ANSWER: If there is no close by real masjid, this is permissible.

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