In salah while performing rukuh, do I have to grab my knees with fingers or with the palms? I am used to doing it with palms and find it difficult to do with fingers.

Prayer
03 Jul

Both are ok.

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As the Dua after Fard Salah is very important. Imam offers salam after a short dua with Darood Ibrahim. What should we do with our dua’s because of this short duration. As we learned from sunnah of making dua before salam & do dhikar after salah.

Prayer
03 Jul

If he offers Salam, you can continue with Duaa and offer Salam after that, but don’t exaggerate.

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I love to pray tahajjud prayers. Sometimes when I wake up I hear fajar azan. I not only missed tahajjud prayer, I also miss witr prayer. How can I cover up witr.

Prayer
03 Jul

Kindly refer to the following link(s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtQ-7cH5HoU&t=10s

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if an Imam or some other person makes mistakes in reciting during salah; like س instead if ص or د instead of ض, does his salah gets invalid?

Prayer
03 Jul

No, it does not.

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In the past i was ignorant.I used to not to follow the imam, so maybe he is in sujud but I am in qiyam(reciting fatiha/other surah).I don’t remember in how many prayers, I did this. What should I do about them? Do I have to estimate and repeat them?

Prayer
03 Jul

No, they are over and gone. Ask Allah for forgiveness and never do that again.

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I am of Pakistani origin, my question realtes to Juma Salah.In Pakistan most if not nearly all peopel read 14 raksts, 4 sunaha,2 Farz,4 sunnah,2 Sunnah and 2 Nafals. My question is the correct way to perform the Juma Salah or is this incorrect.

Prayer
02 Jul

This is not right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXgkK-8NulA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht8Zwz5_pSY

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I have couple family members whom I give zakah money every month. I pay let’s say my 2.5 % of wealth will be $6,000 I pay according to that and I can’t wait till end of the year to give them zakat money because they need money every month to survive so is it ok for me to give them money every month instead of waiting till end of year because they need it.

Zakat
02 Jul

Last year’s zakat must be paid immediately once it is due. You can’t give it in installments. However, you can estimate next year’s zakat and give it on monthly basis and once the date is due, you calculate how much you gave and if there is a balance left, give it on the spot.

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At the end of my sunnah prayer, I thought I forgot to read du’aa’ al-istiftaah. I wasn’t sure, and I regularly get doubts so I ignored it and began my witr prayer. Should I have made prostration of forgetfulness? Was I wrong to decide not to do prostration of forgetfulness?

Prayer
02 Jul

It is a sunnah and even if you deliberately leave it, the prayer is valid.

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Can a traveller pray Sunnah prayer if he is praying in congregation in Masjid if he wishes?

Prayer
02 Jul

A traveler must not pray the sunnah of thuhur, Maghreb and Isha prayers.

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If i join a congregation during the ruku, is my rakat valid or do i need to repeat the rakat again? For eg. if i join a congregation for isha prayers in ruku in the last rakat. Is my rakat valid?

Prayer
02 Jul

If both of you and the imam were together in the state of ruku long enough to say Subhana rabbiyal atheem once, this Rakah is valid.

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