Q&A/Fatwas

On Fridays, if I leave my home early and roam around for a few minutes then make my way to the masjid. Will I get a reward for praying and fasting for all these steps?

Prayer, Rewards & Punishments

16 Jul

ANSWER: No, you’re not rewarded for roaming around as you are not going to the masjid.

I know it’s really bad but I keep missing some prayers & im trying to fix it for >a year, but keep falling back. Would it be shirk if I try the following as motivation?: ‘I hope i find someone to marry in 2-3 years, but unless I fix myself first a practicing person wont marry me’. If I use that as motivation to push myself to not skip(bc i do wanna marry), is that shirk?

Prayer

15 Jul

ANSWER: This is not permissible. Your motivation and reason to maintain your prayers must be for the sake of Allah and to escape from the torment of the grave and hellfire!

If we’re traveling and we’re combing and shortening prayers, when should we do the it after prayer Aadhkar? Also, what about the evening Adhkaar? Can we do it after Dhuhr if we’re combing it with Asr?

Prayer

15 Jul

ANSWER: You should do the adkhar of dhuhr after dhuhr and then stand up for Asr and do its dhikr after praying asr. You should say your morning and evening adkhar as normal.

Is it sufficient for the tongue to move while doing zhikr (so with lips closed) or should the mouth move as well (so lips open)

Prayer, Reading/Reciting the Quran, Supplications

15 Jul

ANSWER: As long as your tongue is moving, it’s sufficient.

Sheikh as much as I would like to reply to the Adhaan, I am not able to as the place where I live many Adhaans go off at the same time and it gets confusing as you cannot hear even one of them clearly and it gets difficult to reply to it, so can I just say the Adhaan dua without replying to it?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

15 Jul

ANSWER: You should reply to the adhan first. Try to focus on one and say that whole athan.

Is it permissible to say slaam while entering Masjid while everyone is praying?

Prayer

15 Jul

ANSWER: No.

If i go on trek and my clothes gets soiled, can i wear something clean on it and pray salah?

Prayer, Purity

15 Jul

ANSWER: If there is an impurity on your body or clothes, you must wash this off or change your clothes. Wearing clean clothes on top of that impurity doesn’t change your status as being impure.

In one masjid the stairs of the mimbar are in between the first three or four rows in a small to medium size masjid should I not pray in these rows and tell the imam about this

Prayer

14 Jul

ANSWER: No problem in praying there due to necessity and the size of the masjid.

I pray on the side and slightly behind my brothers as there is not much space and we pray individually. Not completely behind them a little like 1/3rd below them. If I go all the way back it gets really hot as there is no fan at the back and it gets difficult for me to concentrate in Salah. Is this permissable?

Prayer

13 Jul

ANSWER: No problem even if you stand right next to them or even in front of them and pray as long as you are praying individually and not in congregation with them.

Sheikh, we know 7 families can sacrifice 1 cow. Now, if one of the families provided money earned from haram sources will the udhiya be invalid for all other families as well?

Slaughtering

13 Jul

ANSWER: No, this has no impact on other’s udhiya.

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