Rulings on mosques

QUESTION: Ya sheikh people in the masjid sometimes lose their keys .and it would be somewhere in the masjid .so the person who lost it requests the imam to announce in the masjid to handover the key to him .and this is done after salah.is this permissable and how should one find the keys if he lose it in the masjid

Illegitimate children & Lost property, Rulings on mosques

11 Jan

ANSWER: This is not permissible. He can ask the imam or the admins of the masjid whether anyone has brought forward missing items or not but not to announce this in the masjid.

QUESTION: Is it permissible to donate in a masjid which is not ahle hadees. Like they are the ones who do Fatiha. Can we support them in construction of masjid and their madrasa and will we be rewarded? In which masjid we aren’t supposed to donate? Urgently we need the answer as a masjid needs our help.

Charity, Rulings on mosques

29 Dec

ANSWER: It’s not permissible to donate to masjids or madrasahs of deviant aqeedah and innovations as this would be assisting and collaborating in their sins.

QUESTION: Can women during their menses enter a masjid for tholabul ‘ilm?

Menstruation and post-natal bleeding, Rulings on mosques

13 Dec

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible.

QUESTION: Is there any dress code for a non Muslim female to enter the masjid for a first time? For example a non Muslim woman asks a Muslim woman to go to masjid with her, must the Muslim woman tell her to dress properly or it doesn’t matter as she’s not a Muslim anyway?

Religions, Rulings on mosques

02 Dec

ANSWER: She must be ordered to abide by the full hijab and cover herself properly before being allowed to enter the masjid.

QUESTION: Can I recite dua after adhan when it’s time for adhan but I can’t hear it due to rain? Will it be bidah if I do it?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

20 Oct

ANSWER: The sunnah is to repeat after a live athaan and say the dua after hearing it. If you can’t hear it, you shouldn’t say the duaa. If you are a male, you can call the athan yourself and say the duaa.

QUESTION: Are mosques under apartments, considered mosques?

Rulings on mosques

10 Oct

ANSWER: Prayer halls or rooms are not a masjid as these can be changed any time by the owner to something else

Sheikh as much as I would like to reply to the Adhaan, I am not able to as the place where I live many Adhaans go off at the same time and it gets confusing as you cannot hear even one of them clearly and it gets difficult to reply to it, so can I just say the Adhaan dua without replying to it?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

15 Jul

ANSWER: You should reply to the adhan first. Try to focus on one and say that whole athan.

Do we recite the dua to enter a masjid upon entering the masjid premises or while entering the prayer area?

Rulings on mosques, Supplications

25 Jun

ANSWER: While entering the main entrance.

I work as a khadim in a typical hanafi mosque in Bangladesh. Sm tym people may come and order me 2 announce thru the loudspkr death news, missing news, finding-some-missing-thing-in-the-masjid news and so on. I know announcing these is not permissible in the masjid. If I deny them I may get fired as I am a weak person. wht 2 do?

Halal/Haram Matters, Rulings on mosques

17 May

ANSWER: It is not permissible for you to do that.

Sheikh, the hanafi mosque near me has a chart of Allah’s names and “ya allah” in Arabic written. On the left side there is “ya Muhammed” with a chart of his names. They celebrate mawlid and do bidah like shab e barat and dua after prayer and the imam looks like a normal imam, can I pray behind them?

Prayer, Rulings on mosques

11 Apr

ANSWER: You are praying behind a person and not behind a masjid! What counts is the the aqeedah of the imam. If you don’t know his aqeedah, the default is that he is muslim until proven otherwise.

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