Q&A/Fatwas

QUESTION: My office login time starts at the time if maghrib adhaan, there’s no option to pray in office hours. When shall I pray my maghrib- 10-15 mins before adhaan or alongwith my Isha in the break? Or what will be the best way possible?

26 Dec

ANSWER: You must pray before the time of maghrib ends. Everyone gets a coffee break or would have to need the washroom, you must utilise that time and pray the fard as it won’t take 5 or 6 minutes.

QUESTION: If I am wearing a half sleeve shirt (kameez) and I wear a big scarf on it that covers upto my trunk during prayer, is my prayer valid? Because if I raise my hands for Takbeer the scarf also raises with it and someone in the front can see my hands uncovered.

Prayer, Women clothing

25 Dec

ANSWER: This is not permissible and the prayer would be invalid if done intentionally You must wear an outer garment over such clothes that covers the entire body, bone structure and curves and a loose abaya would do the job perfectly

QUESTION: What distance counts as travelling for us to shorten our prayer or combine zuhr/asr and maghrib/isha?

Prayer

24 Dec

ANSWER: There is no distance prescribed. Whatever is counted among the community to be a traveling distance, this is what counts.

QUESTION: Is it important to move your lips during salah?

Prayer

24 Dec

ANSWER: If you don’t, your prayer is invalid.

QUESTION: After fard of jumma prayer, how should I pray 4 rakha sunnah in masjid, 2 rakha 2 rakha separately or directly 4 rakha

Prayer

22 Dec

ANSWER: 2×2

QUESTION: Can we offer solah in a room that has a picture of a human?

Prayer

20 Dec

ANSWER: This is not recommended but the prayer is valid.

QUESTION: Sheikh is it okay to pray in the same spot after fard if I say adhkar

Prayer

19 Dec

ANSWER: It is an issue of dispute. I am inclined to the opinion that says one must change his position after the fard or speak to someone else next to him.

QUESTION: In Salah, I recite Fatiha and Surah in Arabic by moving my lips but I also recite its meaning afterwards in my own language without moving my lips(in the heart). Thus, I find khushu in my prayers. Is this permissible to do?

Prayer

18 Dec

ANSWER: If the meaning in English crosses your mind, this is fine. But if you pause for few minutes after reciting it in Arabic to do that in English in your head, this is an innovation and pausing in prayer without any valid reason and it would nullify it.