Salah

Is it permissable to close your eyes during salah, if it helps concentration?

Is it permissable to close your eyes during salah, if it helps concentration?...

Arrive promptly for the Jama'at...or miss the beginning?

Arrive promptly for the jama'at...or miss the beginning? Is it better for me to arrive promptly for the jama'at, or to pick up a friend...

Making up missed Salah

Do I have to make up missed salah for the period I was not practising?...

Performing Salat while travelling

When going on a journey, for example, after zhur do you pray zhur then go even though you know you will miss asr...

Sunnah of recitation in prayer

What is the sunna of recitation in prayer? I heard that one should not follow a shorter surah with a longer one. Is...

Balancing life and praying at the masjid in Jamat

How strong is the compulsion to pray at the mosque? If one's wife is not praying at the time of Jama'at because, the...

Not being able to perform Tahajud

Whenever i try to read Tahajjud Salah or try to do Ibaddah at night my two year old son wakes up and i can not...

Praying Jummah at university campus

I have been told by a Mufti not to pray Jum'uah inside my University but to pray Dhuhr instead. Another Shaykh told me...

Praying Jummah at work

I have a question regarding Jummah Salah. The company we work for has been kind enough to provide us with a prayer room...

Why should should men and women pray differently?

I wanted to know why the Hanafi Madhab requires women to pray salaah differently? Where is the evidence for this? According to the...

Evidence for reading Zuhur and Asr Salahs quietly

Please could you give a reference for the Ayat or Hadith that shows Zuhur and Asr to be quiet prayers and the rest to...

Not offering Salah on time

Can you please advise me as to the ruling on offering your salaat on time. if I am very busy I will complete...

Performing Jummah at school

Is it permissible to do perform Jummah at school because going out of school is a bit of a problem. ...

Staggering Sunnah Salah

I wanted to know whether it was possible to stagger the times for performing Sunnah Salah for example, reading Isha with Jamaat, then reading...

Performing Salah and pictures

I just wanted to know whether we could read salah in a room where there is a poster of birds, also wondering if...

Joining Jamaat late

We have a prayer room at work, alhamdulillah. Sometimes brothers miss the jamat times and often a solitary brother begins praying at that...

Returning to prayer having broken ones Wudhu

What is the fiqh regarding returning to the prayer at the point one left it if one felt a need to use the...

Joining salat late - when to count raka'at

When joining a prayer that has already begun, does one need to wait after making takbir for the equivalent of three subhanallahs before...

Waking someone to pray - gently or harshly?

One has woken another Muslim to pray fajr, but the other Muslim struggles to wake. One does not wish to be harsh in...

Joining Salaah

A relative of mine tells me often that we can join two prayers (zuhur and Assar, or Maghrib and Ishaa) if we are...

Mistake in Salaah

The Imam led prayer and in the second Salah he read the ayah 'tahiyyatuhum yauma yalqawnahoo salaam. wa a adda lahum jannaat'. It's...

Should we read Rabbana Lakal-Hamd loud?

In ruku, is the dua to be recited out loud. It appears to be differences in the schools of thought, though I read...

Can we pray in the dark?

My aunt was telling us that salaat should not be read in a darkened room. I was wondering what the correct settings would...

Witr Salaah

Please mention the proof from ahadith of Hanafi Witr salaah in regards of: -That it is 3 rakat with 2 sittings. -That before...

Joining Fard salaah late

I would like to know if it is valid for a late comer to the fard salah to join the prayer with someone...

Witr Salaah

As salamu aleykum, What is the authencity of this hadeeth: Hazrat Sa’eed Ibn Jubair (radhiallahu anhu) narrates that the Sahaabah (radhiallahu anhum) used...

Jummah

Is the jummah prayer fard upon men and women to read. if yes do the same ruling apply in this country. ...

Jummah Khutba

Is it permissable to lead the Jummah prayer by performing the whole Khutbah in English. After the Adhan A few words are said...

Prayers between Maghrib and Isha

What is the authencity of this hadeeth: Hazrat Sa’eed Ibn Jubair (radhiallahu anhu) narrates that the Sahaabah (radhiallahu anhum) used to regard the...

Salat al-Hajah

What is the Salat al Hajah? Is it a Sunnah or Bid'ah? How does one perform it? ...

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