QUESTION: If someone does a thing in salah which doesn’t need to perform sajdah al sahw but the person does sajdah al sahw for that thing is the prayer valid?

Prayer
07 Jun

ANSWER: No, its not valid because you added something that was not part of salah

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QUESTION: While moving within a country like from Riyadh to Dammam, when we qasar namaz, can we combine the earlier prayers with the following like can we pray zuhr with Asar and maghrib with Isha or do we have to combine only in this order like combine Asar after we are finished with zuhr?

Prayer
06 Jun

ANSWER: No problem in choosing either way as both are permissible

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QUESTION: Is it sinful if me and my brother or uncle pray at the same level when we are not praying in congregation and are at home? If I am praying and he starts praying right next to me, should I move back slightly? Note that there is some distance between us where someone could stand. ‎

Prayer
05 Jun

ANSWER: No problem in this if you are all praying individually

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QUESTION: During Fajr i decided to pray sunna b4 fard knowing that time was less after completing my prayer i saw that sun had already risen. It has happened many time not in this way but like while i pray Fajr i look out and sun had risen are all these salah valid

Prayer
04 Jun

ANSWER: What you have done is wrong! If there’s such less time for fajr to end, you must immediately pray fard and pray the first rakah quickly so that you would have prayed in the allocated time. Pray the sunnah after praying fard

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QUESTION: Do women get reward for walking to the masjid as in does each footstep wipe away sins I hear a hadith that states this but do not know if it applies to women?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques
24 May

ANSWER: This reward applies to women as well. However, they are rewarded more than that if they were to pray home! 

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QUESTION: Is it considered having full khushu during salah if a non Arab fully focuses on what he’s saying during salah but has no idea the meaning behind it or is it a must in order to have full khushu you have to know the meaning of what your saying during salah

Prayer
21 May

ANSWER: The khushu is in the heart whether he understands what is being read or not.

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QUESTION: If someone prays with minimal wudu, leaves sunnah acts, wears haram clothes, or prays while needing to urinate, scholars may still consider the prayer valid. But if a person persists in these matters in every prayer, are the prayers still valid? Is there any scholarly disagreement on this issue?

Prayer
16 May

ANSWER: The prayer remains valid, though they are loosing a lot of reward that may reach 1/10th of the actual prayer!

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QUESTION: It’s been more than 11 yrs since my husband has almost stopped praying except for Jummah and during Ramadan. Have advised him many times. Have asked for a divorce but he doesn’t want to. He lives in my apartment. Is it permissable to kick him out or go to court to divorce him?

Fiqh of Marriage, Prayer
16 May

ANSWER: Yes, you should have done that long time back.

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QUESTION: I saw your video about women’s prayer where you said that they Should cover their whole body except their face and hands during prayer. What about the forearms? What if some or all of the area of the arm between the elbow and the wrist is uncovered? Will the prayer be valid?

Prayer, Women clothing
15 May

ANSWER: Of course not! Hand means from fingertips till wrist! Below that is called arms and not hands! The arms MUST be fully covered (till the wrists)!

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QUESTION: I live in H**d* anti islam family and my family don’t know I am Muslim, Sometimes I sin and deliberately don’t pray and then repent. Will all of my past good deeds go away? Will all of my deeds invalidated?

Prayer
13 May

ANSWER: It is not permissible for a Muslim to skip a prayer intentionally as this is one of the major sins in Islam.  If one persists on skipping prayers, this might take him out of the fold of Islam.  However, if a person repents and commits to his prayers on time and avoids sins to […]

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