Prayer

ANSWER: He should continue praying normally as making dua qunoot is not mandatory in witr, even if he doesn’t say it intentionally and there’s no sujood as sahu if you miss it

QUESTION: If a person misses Fajr due to sleep and wakes after its time but does not pray it immediately and delays it until Dhuhr, is it permissible to pray it then, or must it be offered as soon as one wakes?

Prayer

01 Apr

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible at all and it will not be accepted! You must pray it immediately, as soon as you get up as Prophet ﷺ said, “Whoever forgets a prayer or sleeps and misses it, the expiation for this sin is to pray it when he remembers it”

QUESTION: I came across a statement attributed to Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn in [Tafsir Sūrat al-Mā’idah by Sheikh Ibn ʿUthaymin p.403] indicating that one who abandons prayer or commits clear acts of kufr is treated and even declared a disbeliever by name outwardly. However, in other places he states that takfīr of a specific individual requires establishing proof. and how are these statements reconciled?

Apostasy, Prayer

01 Apr

ANSWER: There are theoretical aspects of it and practical aspects. The first opinion is the theoretical part which is a generic statement: any one who doesn’t pray is a kafir. The second statement is the practical part which is that we can’t label specific individual with kufr until the conditions are fulfilled and obstacles are […]

QUESTION: If i as a traveller joins a imam at the start or in the middle of a prayer and i want to pray zuhur and asr, should i pray 4 rakahs of zuhur with the imam or can i give salam after 2 rakahs then stand up to pray asr?

Prayer

31 Mar

ANSWER: If the Imam is a resident imam and is praying full then you must follow him & pray in full and after you conclude the dhuhr, you can combine Asr (2 rakahs) to it.

QUESTION: If you see someone going to pray alone and you give him congregation, and you didn’t make your sunnah after prayer, does this count as your sunnah , or you have to pray it after this congregation.

Prayer

30 Mar

ANSWER: If you intended it to be sunnah, this suffices.

QUESTION: One imam from our mosque leads with Sajdah and Insaan every friday fajr. A number of uncles have not been happy with this, for them it takes a lot of time and they find it difficult, and also they need to get to work shortly (late fajr in winter). What should the imam do?

Prayer

30 Mar

ANSWER: He should continue to observe the sunnah regardless. He can however, make the iqamah for prayer 5 or 10 minutes earlier so that he would finish on time.

QUESTION: Is it sinful to pray taraveeh and witr in congregation in the first row if it has pillar?

Prayer, Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl

27 Mar

ANSWER: It is an issue of dispute whether it is sinful or only not recommended. The companions used to beat up their young children for praying between pillars as the prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam told them not to do so. One should avoid it especially when there is enough space in the masjid.

QUESTION: if you apply lipstick on and some enters your mouth and mixes with you saliva and you swallow this during salah does it break it?

Prayer

26 Mar

ANSWER: If it has mass and you intentionally swallow it then it breaks salah, otherwise it doesn’t

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