Allocating time for Zikrullah and Durood Shareef
Q: How will we answer a person who wants to know whether Zikrullah is more virtuous or Durood Shareef?
Zikr & Dua
Getting people together to recite Aayat-e-Kareemah
Q: What is the ruling on reading Ayatul Kareema 125 000 times so calamity/difficulty is alleviated?
Is it permissible to get a few people to assist you in reading this Ayah many times so that the benefits may be reaped by everyone?
Reciting durood and making istighfaar and taubah
Q: I've read in an authentic book that durood can be a means for our ibadah being accepted. Does this mean that durood purifies the good deeds a person has done like istigfar? For example a person does deeds with inadequate sincerity and then does durood.
Writing Durood Shareef in the state of haidh
Q: Can a woman in haidh write Durood Shareef in the books provided to write, as it has the name of Allah in Arabic and I would end up touching the word Allah which is written in Arabic.
I have been doing it during my haidh, but I read somewhere that a woman in haidh cannot touch the name of Allah that's written in Arabic
Dua for a long life
Q: Please advise the best dua for long life.
Also, will my wife be with me in jannat if we both are granted this joy by Allah Ta'ala?
Making zikr while playing games
Q:
1. Is it permissible to play Roblox while doing dhikr in one's mind to avoid wasting time? Though at times one may forget to do so. Some aspects of the game include:
• Free mixing. Avoidable, though a non mahram may approach.
• Clothing (for the characters) that are inappropriate in front of non mahrams. Avoidable.
• Players using heads and faces (can lead to exposing images of animate beings from one's device.)
• Games that include impermissible aspects. Avoidable.
So, the Haram aspects can be avoided In shaa Allah, but other players can engage in it.
Also, the game consists of a variety of other games (exploration games, designing outfits, maybe riddles or the like etc.).
2. Is it permissible to replace the head using some other object like a watch, flower, planets etc. as long as it doesn't have a face or isn't the head of an animal or person?
3. If a non mahram approaches me and I leave the game soon/quickly afterwards without saying anything, is it permissible?
Making dua to marry a specific person
Q: If I want to marry someone, can I make dua to marry them taking their name?
Taking the name of Allah Ta'ala in a bathroom
Q: In a bathroom that consists of a shower and sink as well as a toilet, which area will be regarded as a toilet in shariah?
Would it be permissible to take the name of Allah in the sink area and at what point should one enter with the left foot?
Frequently reciting "Bismillah"
Q: As in a Hadith it is recommended to "start" any task with "Bismillah". So I want to ask if one says "Bismillah" frequently not only in the start of any task but in the middle or end as well. Or if one makes it his/her frequent zikr even without any task. Is it allowed and benefiting for a Muslim or it is an an addition to the sunnah?
Acquiring concentration in one's duas and salaah
Q: Please advise how to soften my heart. I recently cannot cry. No matter how afraid I am of my sins and meeting Allah Ta'ala, I cannot cry when making dua. If it's my medication, do I stop it? What if I battle without my medication? At the same time, I'm worried about becoming hard hearted.
I also cannot concentrate at all in my salaah. How do I become a better Muslim?