QUESTION: If someone misses Salah by delaying it until there was around 15 or so mins and they usually catch the prayer but that prayer they couldn’t, so are they sinful?

Prayer
12 Aug

ANSWER: Yes!

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QUESTION: When praying alone, should I recite the iqamah for each different type of Salah? For example, let’s say I recite the iqamah, then I pray the Sunnah rakahs of Fajr. After this, should I recite the iqamah again and start my Fard rakahs of Fajr? Or should I just start my Fard rakahs with no iqamah?

Prayer
12 Aug

ANSWER: Iqamah is only given before the 5 fard prayers and not the sunnah prayers. 

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QUESTION: Salaam Sheikh, for a traveller who shortens and combines his prayer, if he prays Thuhur then Asr right after must be change his position meaning to speak, move forward, left right etc? Or can he pray Thuhur conclude and pray Asr in the same position? same for Maghrib and Isha.

Prayer
11 Aug

ANSWER: No need to change or speak as he is not praying sunnah prayer rather he is offering fard.

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QUESTION: In these videos what do u mean by fence? is it the four walls of a masjid? or the border walls of the land where the masjid is situated? There’s a grave outside the four walls of my local masjid (to the south) but inside the border walls of the land. Can I pray there?

Funerals, Prayer
10 Aug

ANSWER: If the grave is being worshiped by some and the masjid was built over the ground belonging to the grave, you can’t pray there. 

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QUESTION: Is it permissible for the muezzin to repeat after the imam, for example, when the imam says “Allahu Akbar,” the muezzin also repeats it? Some people (oulala) in my locality say this is an innovation if the people behind the imam can hear and understand him. However, I also see that in Makkah, the muezzin repeats after the imam.

Prayer
10 Aug

ANSWER: This was the practice before the loudspeakers so that the takbeer would reach even the last rows but now it’s not needed.

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QUESTION: In my masjid, the congregation prays on a carpet, but the imam prays on a prayer mat placed over the carpet and then another prayer mat on top of that, which raises it slightly. Is this practice considered an innovation (bid’ah) in Islam?

Prayer
06 Aug

ANSWER: If he is doing it for religious purposes, this is an innovation.

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QUESTION: After fard prayer, we say Astagfirullah 3 times. Is it for us to seek forgiveness for the headless moments or moments we didn’t focus in Salah?

Prayer
03 Aug

ANSWER: This is the sunnah and that is why we say it and probably it can be for whatever one was distracted from during his prayer. 

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QUESTION: Can i repeat fard prayer from the beginning by breaking it if i got confused in the middle of the prayer instead of doing sujood as sahw as its conditons confuses me so much.

Prayer
01 Aug

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible.

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QUESTION: Is saying bismillah before starting a prayer, biddah?

Prayer
31 Jul

ANSWER: Yes.  You should say it after the takbeer and the duaa

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QUESTION: In our area fajr Azan is being called at 5:00am and google time for Azan is 4:30am. I usually wake up for tahajjud Alhumdolillah but I’m confused what should I do during this time ? Should I perform namaz after 4:30 or wait for the azan ?

Prayer, Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl
27 Jul

ANSWER: Your masjid is probably following the hanafi school of thought which delays fajr athan. You must pray Tahajjud before the Fajr time has entered which is 4:30am.

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