I had a discussion with a woman. I told her that there is no excuse for a person for not praying a prayer on time except oversleeping and forgetfulness(and may be other personal special fatwas, like a surgeon). She said I cannot as a women when driving home from work stop at a gas station and pray outside. I said you have to if you know that if you don’t stop before home, you will miss the time of prayer. The real issue here I think is that she is a women. Can a women pray outside where non-mahram can see her or should she pray inside her car or wait till she get’s home? Is there any excuse to miss the prayer time?

Prayer
13 Feb

She should pray outside standing even if she prays by the side of the road.

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I am an unmarried female aged 31. I have committed a large number of sins during this short span of my life. I am offering Tahajjud Prayers for the last four months. But recently someone told me to consult a scholar/ Mufti to know if I can offer these special prayers? Pease let me know if I cn offer Tahajjud Prayer & stand before Almighty ALLAAH SWT to seek Magfirah or shud I stop offering?

Prayer
13 Feb

Of course you can and you should. No one is prevented from seeking forgiveness from Allah the almighty. Keep on knocking and you will be forgiven.

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After the tashahud and salawat-e-Ibrahim in the final tashahud, is there evidence to say RABBI JA’ALNI MUQI MASAALATA WA MIN DHUIRIYATI RABBANA WA TAQABUL DUA (dua til the end), before other dua and salam?

Prayer
13 Feb

No, there isn’t.

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How important are the two rakah sunnah of fajr salah? If a person sometimes skips them, is he sinful?

Prayer
13 Feb

He is not sinful. He has left great reward.

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There appear to be two methods of calculating Fajr timings, one being the One-Seventh of the Night method and the other being Angle-based method. I live in England and there are drastic differences for beginning of Fajr because of these methods. The one-seventh method says fajr starts at 4am while the angle-based method says it starts at 2am. Please advise what I should do as softwares are being contradictory!

Prayer
13 Feb

You can follow Umm al Qura calculation http://www.islamicfinder.org/prayerDetail.php?latitude=51.5167&longitude…

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I made a mistake in a missing out a takbir and also said it in the wrong place . I did prostration of forgetfulness after the salah. Is that ok?

Prayer
13 Feb

If this mistake was in other than the first Takbeer, this is correct

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I am a non-Arabic speaker. During salah, is it permissible to recite the English translation inside the heart while outwardly reciting the Arabic?

Prayer
13 Feb

This is too confusing. As long as you know what it means, you shouldn’t do that.

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I work full time and there is no mosque near by my office. I use to go to a local university for Friday jumu’ah salaah as they have a room and lots of brothers pray together including the khutba message is delivered However the university year is coming to an end as students will be in the office. We have a prayer room in my office, can I pray 4 rakat thuhr salaah instead of jumu’ah by myself? Is this acceptable?

Prayer
12 Feb

You must look for the nearest masjid and join the Friday prayer as it is the most important prayer of the week where Muslims gather. The Prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam had told us that whoever misses three Fridays in a row, Allah will seal his heart.

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What should one do if one forgets to mention a required tasbeeh during ruku’ and remembers just afterwards after rising up?

Prayer
12 Feb

If someone, after raising his head from ruku‘, remembers that he did not say the supplications of ruku‘, he should not return back to the ruku‘ because the requirement for supplication of ruku‘ has been dropped by virtue of his rising it. If he returns back to the ruku‘ intentionally, this action would render his […]

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I live in Pakistan where 99% people follow Hanafi madhab. And they don’t consider a person a follower of sunah, when they see some one doing rifayedin (raising the hands before bowing and after lifting head) What are we suppose to do, is it really compulsory to do the rifayedein?

Prayer
12 Feb

No one has ever said that it is compulsory. It is a highly recommended Sunnah.

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