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QUESTION: If a person misses Fajr due to sleep and wakes after its time but does not pray it immediately and delays it until Dhuhr, is it permissible to pray it then, or must it be offered as soon as one wakes?

Prayer

01 Apr

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible at all and it will not be accepted! You must pray it immediately, as soon as you get up as Prophet ﷺ said, “Whoever forgets a prayer or sleeps and misses it, the expiation for this sin is to pray it when he remembers it”

QUESTION: Saw video of girl dancing I know she is a Muslim but due to how she dress do all stuff in anger/annoyance cause don’t like what she is doing I was like Christian,who knows if she has even change religion.And I know the ruling of calling a Muslim that ,sometimes find hard to ignore ,ruling on this ?

Apostasy, Other

01 Apr

ANSWER: Stop watching such filth. It’s not permissible to watch such videos to begin with, whether she’s a Muslim or a disbeliever, it doesn’t matter! Calling her a Christian when you know she is Muslim but a sinner is a major sin.

QUESTION: I came across a statement attributed to Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn in [Tafsir Sūrat al-Mā’idah by Sheikh Ibn ʿUthaymin p.403] indicating that one who abandons prayer or commits clear acts of kufr is treated and even declared a disbeliever by name outwardly. However, in other places he states that takfīr of a specific individual requires establishing proof. and how are these statements reconciled?

Apostasy, Prayer

01 Apr

ANSWER: There are theoretical aspects of it and practical aspects. The first opinion is the theoretical part which is a generic statement: any one who doesn’t pray is a kafir. The second statement is the practical part which is that we can’t label specific individual with kufr until the conditions are fulfilled and obstacles are […]

QUESTION: If i as a traveller joins a imam at the start or in the middle of a prayer and i want to pray zuhur and asr, should i pray 4 rakahs of zuhur with the imam or can i give salam after 2 rakahs then stand up to pray asr?

Prayer

31 Mar

ANSWER: If the Imam is a resident imam and is praying full then you must follow him & pray in full and after you conclude the dhuhr, you can combine Asr (2 rakahs) to it.

QUESTION: When you first enter our UK Masjid, there is an area for taking off shoes. If the Masjid becomes full we put mats and use it to pray. Is it halal to hang up flyers on one section of the wall to advertise for Muslim businesses (or to leave the flyers on a table for the people to take home)? What about a Muslim shop which sells halal meat, so that the Muslims know where to buy halal meat?

Rulings on mosques

31 Mar

ANSWER: This is not permissible as it is part of the masjid

QUESTION: If you see someone going to pray alone and you give him congregation, and you didn’t make your sunnah after prayer, does this count as your sunnah , or you have to pray it after this congregation.

Prayer

30 Mar

ANSWER: If you intended it to be sunnah, this suffices.

QUESTION: Is it sunnah to eat any type of breakfast after fajr or duha prayer? (Meaning Is it recommended to eat breakfast in the morning after fajr or duha prayer)?

Innovations

30 Mar

ANSWER: No! There’s no such recommendation

QUESTION: One imam from our mosque leads with Sajdah and Insaan every friday fajr. A number of uncles have not been happy with this, for them it takes a lot of time and they find it difficult, and also they need to get to work shortly (late fajr in winter). What should the imam do?

Prayer

30 Mar

ANSWER: He should continue to observe the sunnah regardless. He can however, make the iqamah for prayer 5 or 10 minutes earlier so that he would finish on time.

QUESTION: Me girl. My aunt’s husband, son is non mahram. When they come my aunt daughter also come and there is my parents and grandma. I cover properly. It is very difficult to segregate as family don’t really practice islam. Am i sinful if i am unable to segreate. I meet & talk briefly & try level best to go in a room. Is that displeasing Allah?

Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram

30 Mar

ANSWER: You must not mix with them! You are sinful if you do.

QUESTION: I read that Surah Al-Kafirun is recommended before sleep, but I did not find it mentioned in the Fortress of the Muslim app. Should we still recite it before sleeping?

Supplications

27 Mar

ANSWER: Reciting surah kafiroon before sleeping is an authentic sunnah. One would be protected from shirk for reciting it once before sleeping.

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