Q: Is salaah compulsory upon a person who is advanced in age and is unable to perform his salaah correctly due to forgetting the number of rakaats he has performed and the sequence of the postures of salaah? If yes, how should he perform his salaah?
Q: What should a person do in the situation where he needs to bring his ailing mother into his home so that he can look after her, but his wife is unhappy with this? He has explained to his wife that he will look after his mother and tend to her, yet she is still upset and refuses to speak to him. What does Shari’ah instruct in this situation?
Q: I have scrupulosity religious ocd which gets me too much horrible Islamic related thoughts. So im not able to do anthng, not even rest. Now I got in trouble by masturbtion. I did once and now im not able to stop. My thoughts comes like if i didnt do again the sin im going aginst my religion. I knw its not true or i dont want to do bt im not getng my mind free nd im not able to do anithng salh pryer etc. im stuck with these and if i dont do the sin again upto some certain no or date like tht i may not getback to norml.wht i do.these thoughts are not ignored by me even i wnt or i try.it still comes. What do I do?
Q: I would like to change my name so it matches with my little brothes name that is zainul aabideen. There are two spellings that I have found, can you tell me which one is correct riyazuddin or riyazuddeen?
Q: I wanted to ask that, I must have bled a little from my finger which I didn't know about. I saw it after I put clean clothes away and it seemed dry. I don't know if this blood touched my clothes that I was wearing or the clean clothes I put away or anything I my have touched and with most clothes being black it's hard to tell.
1. Please can you tell me if I need to wash the clothes again or would they be considered pure?
2. Is my namaz counted in the same clothes I was wearing?
Q: Nighty pehenna kya gunah hai?
Q: Can a Muslim use hair dye/hair colour/black Hena-Mehndi without Ammonia/chemical? Is it permitted?
Q: Can you give me the meaning of the name Rayyaan? Is it a good name to name a baby boy as Rayyan Ahmed?
Q: We live in a dangerous area in Cape Town, lots of gangsterism, drugs, violence and we often have home break in. We earn below average income and can't afford to replace goods when stolen during break in. Is it permissible to have home insurance in this case?
Q: I have problem due to acne on my face and on my back when I sit or if pressure is applied on it, it may burst and bleed, mostly blood comes out and there is no pus, but sometimes there is and both are unnoticeable mostly.
1. If this blood comes out, will my wudu be invalid? If yes, then what about prayers that I have offered in it without knowing about it bursting and about wudu?
2. What about the blood spots on my vest as there are a lot of it on it especially when 3 to 4 burst. Will my clothes be impure? Will Salah be valid?
3. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar Rahman ibn al-Mujabbar that he saw Salim ibn Abdullah with blood running from his nose so that his fingers were all coloured red. Then he rubbed it and prayed without doing wudu.
وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْمُجَبَّرِ، أَنَّهُ رَأَى سَالِمَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ أَنْفِهِ الدَّمُ حَتَّى تَخْتَضِبَ أَصَابِعُهُ ثُمَّ يَفْتِلُهُ ثُمَّ يُصَلِّي وَلاَ يَتَوَضَّأُ .
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 2, Hadith 52 Arabic reference : Book 2, Hadith 82
What about this hadith should I follow it then? Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that the ayat "You who believe! When you rise for prayer wash your faces, and your arms to the elbows, and wipe over your heads and your feet up to the ankles," refers to rising from bed, meaning sleep. Yahya said that Malik said, "The situation with us is that one does not have to do wudu for a nose-bleed, or for blood, or for pus issuing from the body. One only has to do wudu for impurities which issue from the genitals or the anus, or for sleep."
وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، أَنَّ تَفْسِيرَ، هَذِهِ الآيَةِ {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذَا قُمْتُمْ إِلَى الصَّلاَةِ فَاغْسِلُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ إِلَى الْمَرَافِقِ وَامْسَحُوا بِرُءُوسِكُمْ وَأَرْجُلَكُمْ إِلَى الْكَعْبَيْنِ} أَنَّ ذَلِكَ إِذَا قُمْتُمْ مِنَ الْمَضَاجِعِ . يَعْنِي النَّوْمَ . قَالَ يَحْيَى قَالَ مَالِكٌ الأَمْرُ عِنْدَنَا أَنَّهُ لاَ يَتَوَضَّأُ مِنْ رُعَافٍ وَلاَ مِنْ دَمٍ وَلاَ مِنْ قَيْحٍ يَسِيلُ مِنَ الْجَسَدِ وَلاَ يَتَوَضَّأُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدَثٍ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ ذَكَرٍ أَوْ دُبُرٍ أَوْ نَوْمٍ .
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 2, Hadith 10 Arabic reference : Book 2, Hadith 40