ANSWER: This does not effect the validity of your prayers, however it’s totally prohibited to grow your nails like this.  It’s mandatory to cut them off within 40 days and if they grow before that time then you MUST cut them off immediately instead of imitating the disbelievers. 

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ANSWER: If these are pictures of living beings with head and facial features then it’s totally prohibited and you must burn them or shred them up and throw away, besides sincerely repenting to Allah as the one who draws such things are the most severely tormented people on the day of judgement.

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ANSWER: If such tips would give you a better service, this is a bribe. But if you are giving it at the end of the service and probably you won’t come back again or you give it because they are poor, this seems permissible.

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