Sheikh I talk to my parents on how innovations like Mawlid or congregational dua after Jummah is a bida’h and cite your answers as reference. But my mother literally mocked you by showing her thumb as a mockery, saying that you are just one ordinary Saudi Sheikh with outlandish views where lots of Sheikhs around the world do these practices. How should I reply to this?

Innovations, Knowledge & Propagation
22 May

ANSWER: She is right! You can’t quote someone she doesn’t believe in as she has her own set of scholars that she follows. You need to learn the evidences from the Quran and Sunnah and use that without mentioning my name or any other scholar’s name whom she doesn’t believe! This way, she would need […]

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Sheikh.My mom found the writting ‘Allahu’ (swt) and ‘Muhammad’ (pbuh) on two pieces of meat.What to do with those two meat?

Innovations, Other, Superstitions
20 May

ANSWER: Cook it and eat it!

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Sir is there any 4 rakah sunnah (2×2) before the fard of Isha prayer?

Innovations, Prayer
14 May

ANSWER: No.

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Is it true that the new clothes we wore in ramzan will not held accountable in akhirat ?

Fasting, Innovations
12 May

ANSWER: This is baseless.

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Is it true that the Prophet instructed us to send the blessings (salawat) upon him alone quietly? I saw a video where people gather together in a mosque to send the blessings in congregation while playing daf

Innovations, Supplications
11 May

ANSWER: You should send salutations individually and not in groups since this is an innovation. 

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Our sheikh used to say it is makrooh to sleep after asr prayer, because Muhammad pbuh said that one can lose his reason and mind, but i find it to be daif. Is there any other basis to this? Why would someone go insane from sleeping after asr?

Innovations, Superstitions
15 Apr

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and fabricated!

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Do we have to recite durood shareef before and after reciting quran whenever we read

Innovations, Reading/Reciting the Quran
15 Apr

ANSWER: No. This is an innovation. 

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The mosques In this country pray taraweeh 4 Rakat with 2 tashahud and one tasleem and recite loudly in all rakahs am I sinful if I pray with them, if so do I get the reward for sins being forgiven by praying 11rakat of night prayer at home only for 1 hour or so ?

Innovations, Prayer, Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl
12 Apr

ANSWER: You must not pray with them.

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Can we say أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم when yawning? Or is there anything we do or say while yawning? When I’m in salat about to yawn I force not to. Is this the way? What to do in salat if I yawn?

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Innovations, Supplications
07 Apr

ANSWER: There’s nothing prescribed to be said when you yawn.

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In subcontinent, Many people kiss the book/pen if their feet accidentally touched book/pen etc. is it permissible? Some also touch that book/pen in forehead.

Innovations, Reading/Reciting the Quran
05 Apr

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and an innovation. 

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