Rulings on mosques

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!

QUESTION: When you first enter our UK Masjid, there is an area for taking off shoes. If the Masjid becomes full we put mats and use it to pray. Is it halal to hang up flyers on one section of the wall to advertise for Muslim businesses (or to leave the flyers on a table for the people to take home)? What about a Muslim shop which sells halal meat, so that the Muslims know where to buy halal meat?

Rulings on mosques

31 Mar

ANSWER: This is not permissible as it is part of the masjid

QUESTION: I am aware that Jews are permitted to pray in our mosques. If there are no mosques nearby, are Muslims allowed to pray in a synagogue?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

10 Feb

ANSWER: Yes, we can pray anywhere on earth as long as the place is physically pure and there are no statues in it.

QUESTION: I live 5 minutes from an established Masjid, but a new one is opening just 2 minutes away. This new Masjid is being built specifically due to personal disputes and community division. Given the Sunnah of attending the nearest Masjid, am I obligated to switch to the closer one, or should I continue attending the original Masjid to avoid supporting a division based on discord?

Rulings on mosques

04 Feb

ANSWER: Its not an obligation to pray in the nearest masjid, you can pray anywhere you like (imam’s recitation, convenience etc)

QUESTION: Can we give interest money as charity in the mosque?

Halal/Haram Matters, Rulings on mosques

12 Jan

ANSWER: No problem

QUESTION: If a person has a local Masjid near his home but chooses to pray Jumu‘ah in another Masjid because he feels the khutbah or the scholar there benefits him more, and he does this regularly every week, is it permissible and considered good in Shari‘ah to leave one’s own local Masjid and attend Jumu‘ah elsewhere? Kindly guide me.”

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

09 Jan

ANSWER: No problem in this. One is instructed to go to wherever he finds his heart and would benefit from the most

QUESTION: There is a Barelvi masjid near my home where, on every 11th of the month, they use loudspeakers to recite words that seem like shirk. The imam also recites these words with them, they deny believing in them. These recitations are from their well-known book Awrad-e-Fatah. Another masjid is about 2 km away, so I go there but not regularly, and sometimes I pray at home. What should I do

Prayer, Rulings on mosques, Shirk and its different forms

18 Nov

ANSWER: You must not pray in a Barelvi masjid. Find a masjid that follows the Quran and Sunnah. If there is no masjid in your vicinity, pray home.

QUESTION: You mentioned that it is not permissible to be extravagant when building masjids. I wanted to ask: does this ruling also apply to building a prayer room within one’s home?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

11 Nov

ANSWER: One must not build such prayer rooms in homes as this is not from Islam.

QUESTION: Ruling on reserving first row spot in masjid if I come early to clean and lay carpets, but row fills before I finish? (also ramadan, reserving a spot while i eat iftar after serving iftar)

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

24 Oct

ANSWER: As long as you came first and sat there and did not leave the masjid, you are entitled of the position you first came for.

QUESTION: I went to the masjid just to pray alone as a muslimah. i sat down to put my things down, then i remembered i shouldn’t sit without praying tahiyyatul masjid. so i made wudu, prayed the 2 rakaat, then prayed my fard. is this correct, and am i sinful for sitting down at the beginning since i forgot?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

02 Oct

ANSWER: If you prayed fard, without sitting down, that would suffice for tahiyatul masjid as well.

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