Q&A/Fatwas

Sheikh in the place where I live, the government has banned beef and slaughter of cattle for any cause. But some people do it secretly. Is doing this permissible? Will my qurbaani be accepted if I have to go against the law and of my land do it?

Slaughtering

12 Jul

ANSWER: This is not permissible. It’s not permissible to get in trouble with the law like this and make things even more difficult for the whole muslim community because of such irresponsible actions! One can slaughter a ram, a goat or a camel without any problem.

If one gets thoughts in his prayer that are taking his mind away from the actually prayer’s parts like tasbeeh and the surahs one reads, but such thoughts are about Islam like the Seerah or the story of the companions, is it disrespectful to Islam or kufr if he seeks refuge in Allah from Satan and spits 3 times to his left as he would normally do with distractive thoughts?

Prayer

08 Jul

ANSWER: No problem. It should be done for any kind of distractions.

We know that eating pork or drinking wine means our good deeds won’t be accepted for 40 days. Does that mean we don’t have to pray for these 40 days even if we do they won’t be accepted. Please clarify.

Halal/Haram Matters, Prayer, Sins

07 Jul

ANSWER: If one abandons praying then it takes a person out of the fold of Islam! This ruling is only for drinking alcohol or intoxicants, like drugs and not for eating pork.

What can i do if i missed salahs knowingly after the age of puberty and now feel sorry for doing such and want to make this up. Should I calculate the amount of prayers i missed and make them up?

Innovations, Prayer

07 Jul

ANSWER: This is not permissible. Do a lot of good deeds and voluntary worship besides fulfilling all the obligatory ones. It’s best to maintain all the 12 sunnah rawatib and night prayers.

Upon travelling on the plane to hometown it was zuhr time but due to hardship in standing & pray & facing the qiblah,I delayed zuhr till asr as I knew I would reach home when there will still be time for asr.I combined zuhr and asr prayer.Praying zuhr as two rakah and praying 4 rakahs for asr as I reached home.Did I do wrong delaying the zuhr & praying 2 rakah for zuhr instead of 4 with asr prayer

Prayer

06 Jul

ANSWER: What you did was wrong. You should have offered 4 rakah thuhur and 4 rakah asr as you had reached your hometown and can’t shorten your prayers anymore. Repeat your thuhur now.