Submitted by admin on Mon, 2013-02-04 07:39
Q: In Oman local people follow an ibadi imam and they are not reciting sura's with sure fatiha in the first 2 rakats of zohar & Asr Salaah. Since im not praying with jamat (mostly 2nd jamath (not 1st jamat) inside masjid but juma salaah is not prayed on Friday) If the ibaadi imam leads the prayer during asr and zohar I pray separatly.
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2013-02-04 07:30
Q: I am sure that the problem I am facing must have been presented to you many times before. However I request you to consider it from my personal perspective only. I have been living in Western Canada for last five years and every year when summer comes it causes me and my family a lot of hardship to perform Fard salah and more recently the Ramadan fasting. This is because of very long days and very short nights. To give you an idea, at the peak of the summer the Fajr time starts at 3 am and Maghrib at 10 pm. This situation remains for almost 6 months before we could sleep for straight seven hours in the night.
This causes a lot of hardship for me in particular because the nature of my work requires a lot of hard work everyday and my mind and body need proper rest to be ready for the next day. It also doesn't allow me and my wife to have normal marital relationship with out missing the Fajr salah. My nature is such that It is very difficult for me to sleep whenever I want to. Also sleeping in parts rather than continuously does not refresh me.
My question to you is that shouldn't we be performing our salah and fast based on some normal time table instead of following the Sun. From normal I mean a time table that allows us to take proper night rest and does not make our fast longer than 16 hours. This I believe is needed because we have to deal with it every year and there is no other solution except that we move to some place closer to the Equator. Which I think would not be right because Islam is for every part of the world and not just for those who have normal day and night cycles. I believe that Islam is the nature and would not put someone in undue hardship beyond one's capacity every year for six months.
I have heard from a few muslim people of Arab origin that they have fatwas to follow a normal time table instead of sunrise and sunset. I have also read that this could be agreed upon by consensus by all the muslims living in such an area. However muslims have been living in my city for many years and I don't think they have ever been agreed to follow a reasonable time table for salah and fasting. The salah time tables followed by our city are all based on local day and night cycles.
I don't have the capacity to bring all the muslims in this community together to resolve this issue. Therefore I request you to consider this as a personal problem and advise me as per shariah.
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2013-02-04 07:25
Q: Should the feet be kept together or apart in sajdah? All this while I used to have it together until I read in the Majlis that there is no basis for it. What should I do?
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2013-02-04 07:23
س: إذا جهر الإمام بالاستعاذة قبل قراءة الفاتحة في الركعة الأولى من صلاة التراويح، ثم سجد للسهو باعتبار أنه جهر بما يسر به، فهل فعله صحيح؟
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2013-02-04 07:20
Q: After placing body of the deceased in the grave female or male does the kafan need to be opened up from the head side and the face of the deceased have to be uncovered?
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2013-02-04 07:17
Q: Can one read something in salaah if the imaam is taking too long for example I finish read at-thiyatu or durood ebrahim then in the remainin time left, also please tell in which other parts of salaah this can be done?
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2013-02-04 07:14
Q:
- Is it makrooh to stand up before the Maqadir says " Haya ala Aslah" in the Iqamah?
- What is a Muqadir?
- Could a detail understanding be given to the above question as it is creating confusion?
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2013-02-02 16:57
Q: Should I make niyyah for leading jamaat, if I pray together with a non-baligh child of 6 or 7 years?
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2013-02-02 16:54
Q: A women died leaving behind 1 son, 2 daughters, 3 brothers and four sisters. Please explain the division of the estate.
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2013-02-02 16:52
Q: It was just before the time of tahajjud when I saw a dream where I was in a very beautiful place & a man who was unknown to me who looked at me and said: meet muhammed صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ then the alarm rang and I got up.
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