QUESTION: We (ladies) were praying Taraweeh in the masjid behind the imam. During prayer, a woman returned after wudu and crossed in front of us to rejoin the row despite being stopped. Does this invalidate our prayer? Do I need to repeat the prayer and witr as well? It’s been few days since it happened. If yes, Do I need to perform now?

Prayer
05 Apr

ANSWER: No, this does not break the prayer because the Imam is the sutra for the entire congregation.

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QUESTION: I am a muslim women who works at a hospital, i only get an half an hour break for lunch break around 12.30pm, and sometimes i have to work till 6 or i am travelling back home during asr or maghrib time, is it permissible to combine my prayers

Prayer
04 Apr

ANSWER: This is not permissible.  You must pray on time and can pray anywhere in an empty room by taking a 5 min bathroom break.

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QUESTION: I got sick three weeks ago and missed multiple prayers (I had a fever/flu and inconsistent sleep but wasn’t bedridden or unconscious). I kept delaying praying those prayers and haven’t prayed them yet. Do I pray those missed prayers and all subsequent prayers until today, or pray the missed prayers only, or are they gone as I kept delaying them?

Prayer
04 Apr

ANSWER: They are gone and you cannot make up for prayers that were missed deliberately as Allah will not accept them from you.

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QUESTION: Regarding shortening of prayer. Can I combine and shorten isha with maghrib before starting journey?

Prayer
03 Apr

ANSWER: You can’t shorten until you leave your own city’s limits on your journey 

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QUESTION: After salah, can we recite both of these dhikr, or either one? 33× SubhanAllah, 33× Alhamdulillah, 34× Allahu Akbar 33× SubhanAllah, 33× Alhamdulillah, 33× Allahu Akbar + “La ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah…”

Prayer, Supplications
03 Apr

ANSWER: You should not read both. Choose only one of them

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QUESTION: As a woman I am facing difficulty in sitting in jalsa and first tash-hud as to sit on left foot and raise right one finders facing qibla… I am unable to do jt… Is there any other way to sit in jalsa and first tash-hud for women?

Prayer
02 Apr

ANSWER: This is the sunnah. If you are unable to sit in this way, you can sit in any other way you are comfortable with.

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QUESTION: After breaking the fast, is it necessary to rinse the mouth before praying? If someone does not rinse their mouth, will it have any impact on the validity of the prayer?

Prayer
02 Apr

ANSWER: It is highly recommended to rinse the mouth but it is not mandatory as long as you don’t swallow any food while praying. 

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QUESTION: If a person is performing Witr Salah and forgets to recite the Du‘a such asDu‘aeQunoot, what is the correct course of action? Should the person continue the prayer as normal, or is there a requirement to perform Sajdah Sahw prostration of forgetfulness

Prayer, Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl
02 Apr

ANSWER: He should continue praying normally as making dua qunoot is not mandatory in witr, even if he doesn’t say it intentionally and there’s no sujood as sahu if you miss it

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QUESTION: If a person misses Fajr due to sleep and wakes after its time but does not pray it immediately and delays it until Dhuhr, is it permissible to pray it then, or must it be offered as soon as one wakes?

Prayer
01 Apr

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible at all and it will not be accepted! You must pray it immediately, as soon as you get up as Prophet ﷺ said, “Whoever forgets a prayer or sleeps and misses it, the expiation for this sin is to pray it when he remembers it”

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QUESTION: I came across a statement attributed to Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn in [Tafsir Sūrat al-Mā’idah by Sheikh Ibn ʿUthaymin p.403] indicating that one who abandons prayer or commits clear acts of kufr is treated and even declared a disbeliever by name outwardly. However, in other places he states that takfīr of a specific individual requires establishing proof. and how are these statements reconciled?

Apostasy, Prayer
01 Apr

ANSWER: There are theoretical aspects of it and practical aspects. The first opinion is the theoretical part which is a generic statement: any one who doesn’t pray is a kafir. The second statement is the practical part which is that we can’t label specific individual with kufr until the conditions are fulfilled and obstacles are […]

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