Q&A/Fatwas

QUESTION: Can Ayatul Kursi be recited during Salah? If yes, why doesn’t the Imam recite it?

Prayer

23 Mar

ANSWER: The question doesn’t make any sense! There are thousands of verses in the Quran and ayatul kursi is one of them! Why doesn’t the imam read all of them in prayer?

QUESTION: After coming to masjid for friday prayer. I pray 2 rakat tahiyatul masjid then sit. The imam gives the sermon in our language at the beginning. After finishing it, he gives us some time to pray and I pray 2rakat nafl. Then after like 10 min the adhan is given and he gives sermon in arabic in the mimbar. Is my prayer according to sunnah?

Prayer

21 Mar

ANSWER: There are no Sunnah prayers before Friday prayer except the two rakahs of Tahiyatul Masjid that you must pray before sitting down and the general voluntary nafl that is not restricted to a particular number until the Imam comes out.

QUESTION: Does lifting up your head during sujood invalidate your prayer?

Prayer

18 Mar

ANSWER: If you lifted your head from sujood intentionally without a legitimate reason, this would invalidate your prayer

QUESTION: Can we give zakat to pay someone’s bank loan? This sister’s husband took loan with interest but he died now his wife has to pay. The bank has forgiven the interest rate but not the principal amount.

Loans, Riba, Zakat

17 Mar

ANSWER: If the loan is on the sister and she is forced to pay it off, this is permissible but it is not permissible to pay off an interest loan from zakat especially if it was on someone who is dead.

QUESTION: I have being leading my mom and sister in prayers at home. As a man, I’m I sinful for praying at home?

Prayer

16 Mar

ANSWER: If the masjid is within your vicinity then yes, you’re sinful for praying home without a valid reason.

QUESTION: How to give zakat al fitr in a kafir country? Since it must be given to a poor Muslim.

Zakat

08 Mar

ANSWER: Look for the masjid you go to and whether they have a solution for that.

QUESTION: Can we sacrifice 2 goats for male child as akikah but in Two different places? For example one in our home country and one in the country we are living in?

Slaughtering

07 Mar

ANSWER: No problem.

QUESTION: Is it permissable to make wudhu while wearing an impure clothes then change to a clean one before shalah?

Ablution (Wudhu), Prayer, Purity

06 Mar

ANSWER: No problem as long as there is no impurity on your body and you don’t pray in those impure clothes

QUESTION: There is a possibility that I might get discharge from period middle of the night. Should i wakeup before fajr to check if I can pary Esha and before sunrise if I can pray fajr ?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Prayer

03 Mar

ANSWER: If you have your menses and you go to bed at night, you need to wake up at fajar time to check whether you have become pure or not. Isha prayer is gone and you don’t need to make it up as you did not see your purity before midnight.

QUESTION: I have a problem when I am sleeping sometimes I have a wet dream and ghusl becomes fared on me. but the time that I woke up was right before sunrise or a couple of minutes before. What should I do in this situation if I don’t have enough time to do ghusl or wudu?

Prayer, Purity

03 Mar

ANSWER: You must do ghusl before you pray regardless of the time. You should have timed waking up to the time of fajr.

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