I lent some money to my brother. Its been more than a year and I am not sure when he will return it. do I have to pay zakat on it

Zakat
24 Jun

Yes. Only if you asked him for it and he refuses to give it back or apologizes for being unable to give it back, only in this case you don’t have to pay zakat until he returns it to you.

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Which part of the body should touch the ground first while going down into sujood: hands or knees?

Prayer
24 Jun

Praise be to Allaah. The scholars have differed as to how one should go down in sujood, whether one should go hands first or knees first. According to the Hanafis, Shaafa’is and one opinion narrated from Ahmad, the person who is praying should go down on his knees first, then on his hands. Al-Tirmidhi thought […]

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I want to ask if it is permissible to read Qur’an (silent reading without tongue movements) while you are in a state of praying taraweh (ma’mum)? I mean you are following the recital of the Imam in Taraweeh…I come to this question because I saw a lot of people doing this practise in long taraweh prayer.

Prayer
22 Jun

You have to listen to imam’s recitation!

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I wanted to know if praying in congregation is obligatory for the traveler

Prayer
22 Jun

If he hears the athan, he must attend it unless he is on his way from one city to the other,

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I have seen topic of your witr prayer but one thing was not clear to me. As you said to split witr in 2+1 then should I niyat twice for witr or 2 will become sunnat and 1 will be witr. As you know in Ramadan we pray witr in congregation and after 2 rakah imam say takbir and recite dua qunut. So should I leave the congregation and pray alone the way you prescribed?

Prayer
22 Jun

The niyyah is one and the same.

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I Live in the United States. My question is if you do not know how to read and are unable to read the Qur’an, is it okay to the midnight prayer during Ramadan with any other surah like Fatiha.

Prayer
22 Jun

Yes, you can pray night prayer with Al Fatiha only!

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It was the day of jumu’ah and basically a person was walking in town not planning (couldnt be bothrted) to pray jumu’ah in the masjid but in the town library found a musalaa of people doing jumuah then i joined them was this okay?

Prayer
21 Jun

He is sinful for his negligence yet the prayer is okay

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I wanted to find out if someone makes the intention to pay more zakat just in case they’ve got an unintended shortfall somewhere along the line if this is ok and how to do it and if there isn’t a shortfall then if the extra counts as something else ie sadaqah?

Zakat
21 Jun

This is ok.

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Can we take loan to go Hajj

Articles, Hajj and Umrah, Q&A/Fatwas
20 Jun

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Our imam prays witr like maghrib after taraweeh.should we follow him after taraweeh or leave?will i get the reward for praying taraweeh till end with him?

Prayer
19 Jun

You can follow him as he is following a school of thought, though he is wrong in that!

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