I learnt from you that the index finger is to be raised throughout the tashahud and not only at the shahadah stage. I want find out, if it should be raised throughout until the tasleem or from the beginning to the shahadah?

Prayer
28 Jan

ANSWER: From the beginning untill the tasleem.

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Is it true that if you wake up like 3 minutes before sunrise or 5 and it’s not enough time to do wudu then we do tayammum and pray?

Ablution (Wudhu), Prayer
27 Jan

ANSWER: No, this is absolutely wrong!  There’s no prayer without wudu when the water is available. 

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Sheikh, is it true that these are the benefits of each Salah? Any Hadith? Fajr increases Noor on face/facial beauty, Zuhr increases provision, Asr increases overall health and genei well being, Magrib provides righteous kids, Isha provides good sleep.

Innovations, Prayer
24 Jan

ANSWER: This is absolutely baseless. 

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Will a person be punished for praying just fard salah and not the sunnah ?

Prayer
24 Jan

ANSWER: No, he won’t be punished because praying sunnah prayers is not mandatory. However he would be losing a great deal of reward by missing it. 

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I missed magrib prayer due to a valid reason and when entered the masjid, salatul i’sha was announced. Should I join the same or need to make up the magrib first?

Prayer
23 Jan

ANSWER: You should join the congregation with the intention of maghrib and after the third rakah, sit down and finish your maghrib quickly and rejoin the Imam with the intention of isha while he’s still praying his isha and after he concludes, you get up and continue your isha.   

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Can the muazin air the takbeerat while the imam leads the prayer?

Prayer
23 Jan

ANSWER: Repeating it behind the imam is not from the sunnah in the presence of loudspeakers where everyone can hear the imam. 

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I delayed ghusl for a reason and I ended up missing a prayer because I did not do ghusl in time to pray that prayer. Should I make this prayer up?

Prayer
22 Jan

ANSWER: You are sinful for delaying ghusl and prayers that were missed deliberately for no legitimate reason cannot be made up.

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If someone constantly prayed salah in the state of junub or without performing ghusl while knowing its haram, how do they repent from this? should all the prayers be repeated? even though the number is unknown? please help as they are trying their best to repent from all the haram that has been done.

Prayer, Purity
22 Jan

ANSWER: They can’t make up for that! If they prayed in the state of janabah intentionally, this is an act of apostasy. 

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Is it ok to pray in congregation behind my dad but on the same row as my sister?

Prayer
21 Jan

ANSWER: If there are only two men, you must stand beside your dad’s right hand side and your sister would stand behind your dad. Men must pray in the masjid if it’s within their vicinity. 

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Recently I heard a hadith that in prayers its prohibited to recite quran verses in rukoo and sujoodh is this authentic?? If yes can’t we make duas in sujoodh which are from Quran??

Prayer, Reading/Reciting the Quran
21 Jan

ANSWER: This is authentic, and no problem to do duaa from Quran in sujood as this is not reciting the Quran.

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