Q&A/Fatwas

Praise be to Allaah. By the mercy of Allaah to His slaves, as one of the beauties of this perfect religion, Allaah has prescribed that His slaves may make up for shortcomings and mistakes that they make in their worship and cannot avoid completely, by performing supererogatory (naafil) acts of worship, praying for forgiveness and […]

The istikhara is to be done only by the person involved.

Only in arabic.

Praise be to Allaah. Firstly: Du’a’ al-Qunoot is recited in the last rak’ah of Witr prayer, after bowing, but if one recites it before bowing it doesn’t matter. But reciting it after bowing is better. Shaykh al-Islam [Ibn Taymiyah] said in Majmoo’ al-Fataawa (23/100): With regard to qunoot: there are two extreme views and one […]

The prayers of the Prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam was described to us by the companions who saw him. they told us that we should put our hands over the chest and to raise the hands when bowing and raising our heads from the bowing position. If you do this, you are rewarded. If […]

The prayers are valid.

You should raise your hands when you bow and when you raise your head from bowing. There is no raising of the hands when you go down to prostrate

Surely you are wrong in what you are doing. You must pray Isha with the congregation even if they pray it immediately after the Athan. You must not postpone it until the middle of the night unless you are a woman or you are with a congregation in another masjid.

He should either start to recite again or if he had finished Al Fatiha, he should go for Ruk’u.

If a person skips prayers without any legitimate reason such as sleeping or forgetfulness, he can’t pray it or make it up. But if there were Islamically accepted reasons, he should pray them immediately. If he prays them while traveling, he should pray them shortened.