QUESTION: Here in my neighbourhood many mosques most of the time before adhan and sometimes iqamah add the words “Allahumma salli ‘alaa sayyidina Muhammadin wa ‘alaa aali sayyidina Muhammad” so is the adhan valid? How to pray jumu’ah in such situation.

Innovations, Prayer
02 Nov

ANSWER: The athan is valid but they are sinful for such an innovation.

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QUESTION: When the Prophet said every innovation is misguidance, is this related to both innovation in belief, as well as innovation in actions, such as mawlid. Does innovation in belief/Aqeedah also include the use of kalam? 

Innovations
01 Nov

ANSWER: This is regarding all kinds of innovations.

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QUESTION: I recently learned a sunnah of walking up the stairs by saying allahuakbar and down the stairs saying subhannallah so my question is how many times do we say this? (Do we say according to the number of steps we take?)

Innovations, Supplications
23 Oct

ANSWER: No, this applies only to traveling and going up and down mountains or hills.  Doing it while going up and down the stairs would be bid’ah.

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QUESTION: While eating, elders say that the left hand must not touch the food at all. Even though we eat with right hand, but sometimes we use both hands to break bread or meat. Is it true that the left hand cannot even touch ur food to help?

Etiquette, Morals and Heart-Softeners, Innovations
22 Oct

ANSWER: What they say is incorrect.

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QUESTION: I wanted to know is it impermissible to listen/sing, “tasbih al-zahra, as I can’t send the link of that video, kindly listen to it & say me bout it sheikh.

Innovations, Shirk and its different forms
20 Oct

ANSWER: There’s no such tasbih in Islam! Most likely this is an innovated thikr fabricated by the sufis and it is filled with innovation and maybe shirk.

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QUESTION: Is it authentic to remain silent and contemplate after performing Salat Al-Istikhaara, without looking at or speaking to family members until sleep, and do colors such as red and black signify danger and white and green signify good signs in this context?

Innovations, Istikhara
18 Oct

ANSWER: All what you have mentioned is baseless and fabricated.

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QUESTION: In south asian countries i have seen people kissing and touching their head on Quran before opening and after closing. So is it allowed to do that?

Innovations, Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran
17 Oct

ANSWER: This is not permissible as its an innovation.

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QUESTION: In some cultures, it’s customary for the bride and groom to recite few ayah from Quran is this custom permissible to follow?

Innovations
16 Oct

ANSWER: This is an innovation

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QUESTION: I was taught to cover our head in the toilet when doing Number 1 or Number 2 because Shaitan defecates on our head. Is any of this actually part of the Sunnah?

Innovations
02 Oct

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and nonsense! 

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QUESTION: Did our prophet said that my ummah will never be in misguidence. If yes does that mean if there is consensus of all scholars on a issue it will never be wrong

Commentary on Hadeeth, Innovations
26 Sep

ANSWER: The Prophet ﷺ said: My ummah would never agree to a misguidance  Meaning that there won’t be a unanimous decision over a misguidance.

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