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

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?

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

22 Dec

ANSWER: 2×2

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

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

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?

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.

QUESTION: Is it from the sunnah to raise the index finger in qiyam during salah when Allah’s name is mentioned in the ayahs being recited?

Innovations, Prayer

17 Dec

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible as its an innovation.

QUESTION: Is it better to have a funeral prayer with several rows even if the rows are not filled?

Funerals, Prayer

16 Dec

ANSWER: Yes. The rows don’t have to be filled and the virtue in having more rows is better.

QUESTION: I often see kids and sometimes adults use their phones during khutbah, does that invalidate their prayer or lessen the reward?

15 Dec

ANSWER: Yes, this invalidates their juma’ah

QUESTION: Can you please tell me is it true that prophet Muhammad Pbuh said that whoever leaves 3 friday prayers without an excuse is written as a hypocrite/ is a hypocrite. is that a correct hadith.

14 Dec

ANSWER: This is authentic. https://islamqa.info/en/answers/103055/it-is-not-permissible-to-stay-away-from-jumuah-prayer-without-an-excuse