Q&A/Fatwas

QUESTION: Recently a brother skips fajr at mosque out of laziness (he sleeps early). Sheikh how would you advise him to go the MOSQUE?

Prayer

22 Apr

ANSWER: Remind him that the hardest prayers for hypocrites as the prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam had told us is Fajr and Isha prayer! If he is fine in being a hypocrite, there is no problem in that!

QUESTION: A muslim is travelling by train and has to pray in the train. He has two choices: pray standing but not facing qibla or pray sitting down and facing the qibla. Which one should he choose?

Prayer

21 Apr

ANSWER: He must face the qibla in fard prayers and he must pray standing up as this is a pillar. However, if he is unable to do both and has to choose one, I would select facing the qibla and Allah knows best.

QUESTION: If there is a lot of lightning strike outside, what is the ruling on going to the mosque? Recently, there has been intense thunder around Fajr time frequently. Should I go to the mosque or pray at home?

Prayer

20 Apr

ANSWER: What are the chances of being struck by lightning?

QUESTION: Sheik, my family says we sell part of our gold every year for zakat, and it’s reducing over time. Is there any reward for this? Is there any hadith related to it?

Zakat

19 Apr

ANSWER: Of course you will be rewarded for fulfilling your obligatory worship, exactly like how you’re rewarded for praying salah & you will be sinful if you don’t pay it. If you have cash, you don’t need to sell any of it.

QUESTION: Is it mandatory to say takbir Allah hu Akbar in ruku sujood getting back from sujood after imam in congregation. If we forget to say it does it invalidate our salah?

Prayer

19 Apr

ANSWER: Yes, this is mandatory. If you forgot it, this is forgiven but if you leave it intentionally, your prayer is invalid.

QUESTION: If i was praying whit the imam from the beginning for asr salah and in the 4 rakah i didnt manage to recite surah al fatiha to the end because i made a mistake in surah fatiha so i went back and corrected the ayah where i made mistake then i continued my recitation but then imam went to do rukuh and i knew even if i recited fast i wouldnt catch up because imam will raise his head. is rakah valid?

Prayer

18 Apr

ANSWER: No, it is not valid if you did not complete the fatiha or you were not in ruku with him at the same time.

QUESTION: Do we have to give answer when the iqamah is being called?

Prayer

18 Apr

ANSWER: No

QUESTION: I’m married and well settled man. I give zakat on my wife’s (housewife /non-working) jewellery . My father-in-law is a daily wage earner, with no savings and has just a very old house , which he lives in ( and is falling apart ). My question is, can i give the zakat money to him?

Zakat

16 Apr

ANSWER: If it’s your wife’s gold then it’s not permissible to give its zakat to her father

QUESTION: I only memorised around 400 ayats. In night prayer, can i recite the same surahs multiple times in different rakats so the total becomes 1000? Will i get the reward of praying 1000 ayats

Prayer

16 Apr

ANSWER: No problem You can also hold the Quran or phone and recite longer surahs from it.

QUESTION: During the three-rak’ah Witr prayer, after praying two rak’ahs, can one change places and pray the remaining one rak’ah?

Prayer

14 Apr

ANSWER: No problem but this is not from the sunnah

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