Prayer

ANSWER: If such fear is genuine, the prayer is valid. But if such a fear is the result of your own imagination, you must stop such nonsense and be proud of your faith.

QUESTION: If someone wants to pray alone in a kafir country in a place where he cannot hear adhan and iqamah, is both of them mandatory?

Prayer

05 Nov

ANSWER: If adhan has already been given in any masjid in the city, regardless whether you heard it or not, you can pray without giving the adhan. Giving iqamah is a highly recommended sunnah but its not mandatory.

QUESTION: I have a 4 month old baby. He wakes up every 2-2.5 hours at night to eat. So,sometimes it happens that I have only 10 to 15 minutes left for Fajr prayers.At that time, my child wants to eat too or he needs me to comfort him for getting back to sleep after morning feeding.What should I do in that case?Should I finish my prayer and let him cry or should I leave my prayer and attend my baby?

Pedagogy education and upbringing, Prayer

04 Nov

ANSWER: You should pray first. Nothing will happen if the baby cries for sometime, in fact it’s good for his lungs.

QUESTION: In congregational prayers the imam of our masjid prays so fast that we cannot bow (Ruku) and prostrate(Shijda) properly. Furthermore we have to finish our Salah till Taslim and sometimes till Tashahud. Is our prayer valid?

Prayer

03 Nov

ANSWER: If he is as you had described and most of the worshipers agree that he is too fast, you must not pray behind him and the prayer is invalid if he doesn’t give you time to do what is obligatory in prayer. You need to offer another congregation after he finishes and pray it […]

QUESTION: Here in my neighbourhood many mosques most of the time before adhan and sometimes iqamah add the words “Allahumma salli ‘alaa sayyidina Muhammadin wa ‘alaa aali sayyidina Muhammad” so is the adhan valid? How to pray jumu’ah in such situation.

Innovations, Prayer

02 Nov

ANSWER: The athan is valid but they are sinful for such an innovation.

QUESTION: If i miss the congregational prayer and know that most likely wont find another congregation am i sinful if i pray at home

Prayer

02 Nov

ANSWER: He should go & pray in the masjid and another late comer might come & join you to form a congregation.

QUESTION: Sheikh, in the case of Tahajjud prayer, the dua is long indeed. So should we ask Allah whatever we want in sujood and last tasahhud ? Or we can make dua after prayer with hands up (which is not recommended in general salah)?

Prayer, Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl

30 Oct

ANSWER: You can do all of that as the time of tahajjud is a blessed time and making duaa was not for the sake of it being after the prayer but rather due to the time of tahajjud and the last third of the night.

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