Q: I am planning umrah with my daughter after the month of ramadan. Can you please inform me if we can perform umrah after the month of  Ramadhaaan? Is there any month where we cannot perform umrah?

Q: How should a person perform Salaah if he has a back problem? Can he sit on a chair and perform Salaah? I was told that if he does not have a serious back problem and performs Salaah on a chair, his Salaah will not be valid. It this correct?

Q: Can istikhara be made of behalf of another person? I was told that this is against the sunnah and not established in the Qur'an and Hadith.

Q: If a person did not repeat the words of the Azaan immediately after the muazzin but only remembered at the end of the azaan at the time when the muazzin reached Hayya Alal Falaah, can he repeat the words from the beginning of the azaan or he should only repeat the words of the muazzin from hayya alal falaah?

Q: My question is regarding wudhu for Salaah. If someone urinates and he uses toilet paper not water and thereafter he makes wudhu, washes his hands, nose, face, arms, hair and feet, so can he be declared as clean for Salaah?

Q: There is a custom in some communities, that is; when we give some prepared food to our neighbor or somebody they always give back something which they prepared, in the same plate in return. The problem is, when nothing is found in their home they refuse to return our plate empty and say that, "I will give later"because of custom. Is this an act of sunnah to give back something as hadya in the same plate when one receives hadya from a neighbor or someone else?

Q: Is it permissible for an Aalim who is appointed as Imam in a musjid to receive salary for Imamat whereas the five times salaah is obligatory for
the imam also and also it is a duty of a muslim who keeps the knowledge of fiqh and recites quran properly to lead the salah only for the sake of Allah without a salary?

Q: In some places when an aalim does a bayan, the people and masjid committee collect money and give it to the aalim as hadya. Is it permissible for him to receive that amount because it is his duty to educate people islamically?

Q: My question is how is the zakaat 'nisaab' worked out. In other words how is the minimum zakaat nisaab worked out?

Q:

1. In surah (Al-Kahf: 18) it is spoken about "the dog of the people of the cave" is this referring to all dogs or what does that mean?
2. Do animals go to janah? and I'm referring to dogs in particular?