Sheikh I would to ask a question regarding praying infront of a person who is facing towards the one who prays or else he is lying horizontally at the front.Is it permissible to offer Salah in such a situation??

Prayer
01 Nov

ANSWER: No problem as long as no one is in between him and his sujood position.  He should place a sutra in front of himself. 

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Sheikh, I would like to know the ruling on the below scenario. I am a traveler and I am out of my home town which qualifies me to combine and perform prayers. If am to return to my home town, Can I kasr and Jam my prayers? Please note that my destination now is my home?

Prayer
01 Nov

ANSWER: Once you have entered your city limits, you’re no more a traveler and you cannot shorten nor combine. 

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Since it is good to send to do durood before and after prayer,can i do such while in sujood if i want to pray and before teslim?

Prayer
01 Nov

ANSWER: No need for this.  Make dua directly after saying the prescribed dhikr.

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My brother took bank loan, riba based, to buy a house. Can I pay my zakat to him to pay that debt. I don’t know whether he pays zakat, and I don’t want to tell him this is my zakat money.

Loans, Zakat
01 Nov

ANSWER: You must not use zakat to pay off riba based loans. 

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Sheikh I have prayed behind imams who make their adhkaar loud after the prayer,,,is it recommend or it’s an innovation,??

Prayer
01 Nov

ANSWER: Saying the Athkar in congregation is an innovation. Saying it individual but loudly is an issue of dispute. Our scholars say that this is sunnah as per the hadeeth of Ibn Abbas. Other scholars say that the sunnah is to say it silently such as sheikh Al Albani. Either way, he is not committing […]

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Is at tahiyat lillahi was salwat really conversation between Allah and messenger s.a.w.? what is the proof i can show to my friends that it is not

Prayer
01 Nov

ANSWER: This is baseless. Praise be to Allah. What is mentioned in the question about there being a story of the origin of the tashahhud and that it happened during the ascent of our Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) to heaven (the Mi‘raaj) is something for which there is no basis […]

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I would like to know the value of Nawafil prayers when praying in Mecca mosque.

Prayer
01 Nov

ANSWER: Any prayer that you pray in masjid Al Haram of Makkah, it’s reward is 100,000 times more than praying anywhere else.

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Sheikh,I was praying Fajr,I broke it,cause I forgot I only needed to pray 2 rakahs.I realized when I got up from tashahhud,about to recite Surah Al-Fatiha,but I cut off.I said Astaghfirullah & began to pray again by making sure that I only need to pray 2 rakahs of Fajr.What I did was correct?

Prayer
30 Oct

ANSWER: What you did was not correct. You should not have broken the salah.  When you realized that you got up for the third rakah you should have immediately gone back to sitting position and finished your prayer and made sujood as sahu. 

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Where is the Najd today that’s mentioned in the hadith, does it refer to Wahabism? – Assim Al Hakeem

Articles, Q&A/Fatwas
28 Oct

Do you have a question: https://www.assimalhakeem.net/ask-a-question/ https://www.assimalhakeem.net/ http://www.youtube.com/assimalhakeem/ …

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I have appx 150g of Gold. My husband is giving zakah on it on my behalf from past few years as we don’t want to sell gold. My question is that we have to continuously give zakah every year like this if we don’t want to sell gold? Also my daughter is three year old and she received gold gifts, do I need to include her gold in mine to calculate my zakah?

Zakat
28 Oct

ANSWER: 1. Yes, zakat must be given every year if it stays with you.  2. No, her zakat should be calculated separately if it reaches nisab, which is 85 grams.

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