ANSWER: You should shorten your prayers in the hotel. In congregation, follow the Imam. You should not pray the Sunnah of dhuhr, Maghrib and isha as Prophet ﷺ used to skip these while traveling. Other than that, you can pray as many voluntary prayers as you want.

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ANSWER: Your friend must give expiation of slaughtering a sheep in Makkah and distributing the meat to the poor. As you were the one who gave her the wrong fatwa, you are the one who should give her the money to do that or slaughter on her behalf after she authorizes you. 

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ANSWER: What you have heard is not true.  The ruling is that you must not cut or pull out your hair on purpose. If they fall on their own while you comb or shower etc, there’s no problem in this.  You MUST remove your headscarf or pull it up a little if in public to wipe […]

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ANSWER: Shaving is better as Prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam prayed 3 times for the person who shaves his head in comparison to the one who trims it.  However, trimming the hair is sufficient as well. 

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ANSWER: This is permissible as long as you had done your own umrah before, at least once in your lifetime. 

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ANSWER: No, this is not permissible as tawaf cannot be performed on behalf of anyone else, whether dead or alive. 

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ANSWER: It is an issue of dispute. I believe that this is not from the sunnah. There isn’t any specific place to make Duaa in and it won’t be rejected! All places in Al Haram are great places for Duaa. 

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ANSWER: The black stone is from paradise and the Prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa Sallam kissed it because it is part of our religion! Such questions are not asked as this is how we were ordered to worship Allah. It is like objecting to why we pray Fajr two while Maghreb is three!   This is […]

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ANSWER: You can perform salah there anytime except during Fard congregation and while in the middle of doing tawaf. When you pray there, you are praying inside the kaabah. 

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