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  • Prostrating when praying seated

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu, Shaykh. Yesterday, while I was praying the Fajr prayer (I was praying seated due to an illness and was bowing and prostrating while seated on a chair), I forgot to do make my prostration lower than my bowing (I strongly felt that it was almost the same). Hence I worried whether my prayer would be valid.. More

  • Missing congregational prayer because of rain

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu. We have only one umbrella, so when it is raning, we have to make a difficult choice: either my father can go, or I can. We cannot go both. So who should go to the masjid? How severe does the rain have to be for us to not go to the masjid? We fear that we may catch a cold as your clothes can get wet,.. More

  • Performing many prayers with invalid ablution

    All these years, when I performed ablution, I used to first make the intention and say Bismillaah (in the name of Allaah) in my mind as we used to perform ablution in a bathroom with toilet facilities. Then I would wash my hands thrice, and then my mouth three times, then I would rinse my nose three times separately, then I would wash my arms thrice.. More

  • Praying with Tayammum due to old age

    I have a grandmother whom I have started to help to pray recently. Given that she cannot get up on her own and that moving is difficult for her, she performs Tayammum (dry ablution). I was not aware of this fact and let her pray without it at first. Does she have to repeat those prayers? Understand that she was not really practising before and that.. More

  • Missing congregational prayer because of bad body smell

    Assalaamu alaiyum, shaykh. I suffered from a strange condition of anxiety that makes my body smell so bad that I cannot go to a mosque or any other place because of this. This problem has made me antisocial. My question is: how do I relieve myself from this anxiety that causes this body odor according to Islam, and what about praying in the mosque?.. More

  • Standing while touching pillar of masjid in prayer

    Assalaamu alaykum. If someome stands while touching a pillar of the masjid with his side of backside without a necessity while praying, is his prayer valid? .. More

  • Praying in masjid in which grave is attached to Qiblah wall

    Assalaamu alaykum. Please answer my question briefly, and do not refer to another fatwa. There is a masjid in our locality. After the death of the person who gave the land for that masjid, that person was buried in front of the masjid. However, the grave is attached to the wall of the Qiblah (prayer direction). Not every praying person of the first.. More

  • Sitting on chair with back support while praying

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu, Shaykh. Is it permissible to use a chair that has a back support whilst praying? I pray on a sitting tool due to an illness in the knees and feet, and it does not have a back support. It is a sitting tool. However, now I suffer pain in my upper back, below the shoulders, and it hurts me if I do not.. More

  • Leaving mosque during Friday sermon to make a non-Muslim utter the Shahaadah

    Assalaamu alaykum. Can you go out of the mosque while the Friday sermon is ongoingto have a non-Muslim who wants to be Muslimsay the Shahadah (the two testimonies of Faith)? .. More

  • Performing prayer again to help someone earn reward of congregation

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wabarakaatuhu. I am unable to pray the Thuhr prayer in the masijd because of my exams. If my father/mother have already prayed the Sunnah of the Thuhr and the Thuhr itself already, can they still pray with me so that I can get the reward of the congregation and the reward of attending the beginning of the prayer? If.. More

  • Stories about night prayer

    Assalaamu alaykum, Scholar. Since I have not been able to perform the voluntary night prayer for months, I would love to hear stories like the one of Sufyaan Ath-Thawri, which says that he could not pray night prayers because of one sin. So, please, if you can tell me stories of Tabi'een (generation following that of the Companions) or Companions or.. More

  • Fingers are spread in bowing and joined in prostration

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu, Shaykh. I have the following question: when one bows when prayingwhile sitting on a chair or on ground, should the hands that are placed on the kneeshave their fingers spread or should they be joined together? I have the same question for the prostration when one does it without touching the ground;.. More

  • I‘tikaf of one who goes to work and goes home to bathe

    My husband wants to observe i‘tikaf (ritual seclusion in the mosque) in Ramadan, Allah Almighty, willing. He will observe it in a masjid near our house. Is it valid that he comes home after finishing work and takes a bath and then goes to the masjid and repeats this process throughout the period of i‘tikaf? He also comes home before he goes to work.. More

  • Difficulty pronouncing Athkaar in prayer

    Assalaamu alaykum. I have difficulty pronouncing the Athkaar (pl. of Thikr [expressions of remembrance of Allaah]) silently. Therefore, most times, when I pray behind the imam, I am unable to complete the recitation of the Athkhaar before he moves on to the next position. That said, when this occurs, I sometimes try to force the recitation of the Athkhaarso.. More

  • Praying ‘Asr when shadow of object is twice its height

    Do you know of any scholar who said that the ‘Asr prayer that is prayed after the shadow of an object becomes twice the height of the object (the time when Hanafis pray ‘Asr) will be completely invalid and unacceptable? .. More