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QUESTION: Is it permissible to meditate by closing your eyes and focusing on your breath in silence (mindfulness mediation) to help with focus?

Innovations

18 Sep

ANSWER: There’s no concept of meditation in Islam. Even while praying, we are required to keep our eyes open and pray with full concentration unlike meditation where people close their eyes and meditate in such a way that they are not even aware of their surroundings and go into a trance.

QUESTION: Is nikah in the masjid a sunnah?

Fiqh of Marriage

18 Sep

ANSWER: No.

QUESTION: The spot of praying should be pure is a condition for the validity of prayer. My question is what is the extent that we should keep pure when we pray?From Our feet to the prostration spot or something else?

Prayer, Purity

18 Sep

ANSWER: From the feet to the prostration spot. The prophet salla allahu alaihi wa sallam said that the earth was made for him a place of purity and prayer. Therefore, the default is that all grounds are pure until proven otherwise.

QUESTION: In a 3 rakat/4 rakat salat, if I join in the the second rakat, do I do Rafayel hidayen in the Imam’s 3rd rakat or my 3rd rakat.

Prayer

18 Sep

ANSWER: With the Imam in his 3rd rakah.

QUESTION: Can I use the full physical copy of the quran for memorization when I’m on my period?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Reading/Reciting the Quran

17 Sep

ANSWER: No problem as long as you don’t touch it with bare hands.

QUESTION: Is it okay if i keep track of the sunnah prayers i pray in a notebook so that i can see my results and in which ones i need to focus more? I have set a goal to myself to pray the second sunnah of Dhuhr for 21 days so that i make it a habit, and i am keeping track of it every single day? Is it okay if i do so? Or should i stop doing it? Thank you.

Innovations, Prayer

17 Sep

ANSWER: Writing down is an innovation and not from the sunnah.

QUESTION: Is it islamically okay, if you try to knowledge ur parents because they’re following the wrong aqeedah but they’re stubborn & disagree with things that lead to major sins & most of times arguments happen (sometimes because my tone is not nice). Does Allah dislike this type quarrelling? Would I be sinful?

Fiqh of the family, Knowledge & Propagation

17 Sep

ANSWER: Of course you are sinful and committing sins! Their dislike of Islam is due to your attitude and style as you are the reason they are rejecting sunnah and that is because of you.

QUESTION: On Foodpanda a food delivery app there is a pro feature where you pay a monthly subscription fee and receive some benefits such as free deliveries and other exclusive discounts. Is this a permissible transaction, does this fall into riba or the likes?

Halal/Haram Matters

17 Sep

ANSWER: This is not permissible as there is ambiguity to the services you will receive in exchange for such fee.

QUESTION: In morning and evening azkaar, there are some azkaar which have Dua in them, are we supposed to raise our hands for those azkaar? What is Sunnah about it?

Supplications

16 Sep

ANSWER: No, you should not raise your hands as this is dhikr.

QUESTION: People usually say la illaha illah muhammadur rasuloollah after the muathin finished iqama as well as athan so is that authentic.

Prayer

16 Sep

ANSWER: No. This is not authentic.

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