Q: If I perform a fard salaat on my own and someone joins in,what is the procedure? My intention was not as an Imam. I am reading silently, do I continue aloud?

Q: What is the proper method of cleaning a chair (which has najasah on it), if the chair is of the same material as a sofa (i.e. the chair is not a
non-porous surface)? Is using a wet cloth sufficient to clean the chair?

Q: I am a student and I just need to enquire about some things. I don't believe in evolution, but there is a lot of science and fossils like Mrs Ples and the Taung child as well as the Stone Age and Bronze Age and also all the tools and weapons that the apparent "early humans" used. I know we do not come from monkeys but all this science? Also , where were the Prophets during this supposed time of the Bronze and Stone Age? In what era according to the Gregorian calendar did the Prophets live?

Q: Who should perform aqeeqah of a new born baby. Mother and father are divorced?

Q: I am not a true Muslim. I try to pray 5 time a day but most of the time I don't pray esha salaah. I read many Islamic books and sometimes I tell the people many good things about Islam but then I think that I am munafiq. I am not following Islam properly then why should I teach the people? Am I right or I am a munafiq?

Q: A person in hospital is on a respirator and the Doctors advise the family to have the respirator removed.

1. Does the Shariah permit the use of a respirator?
2. If it is correct to use a respirator, can the doctors/family decide when to remove the respirator?
3. If again it is permissible, after what period of time should the doctors/family make the decision?
4. Is it best to make Istikarah?

Q: Please can you advise if there is a Hadith in the reading of a Yassen Khatem for a sick person? A person is seriously ill in intensive care and a suggestion is made to read Yaseen Khatem for shifa. Is this according to the Shariah? What number constitutes a Khatem?

Q: What is the ruling of the ulema regarding bringing children to the musjid?

Q: Zeid doesn't pray salaat regularly because of laziness. He has been told by a Hanafi maulana that this is not kufr (however it is fisq). But, there is an opinion related from Imam Ahmad that leaving salat because of laziness is kufr. If Imam Ahmad's opinion turns out to be the correct one, what will happen to Zeid? Will he be a kafir who is forever destined for hell, or will he be excused since he is a Hanafi and acted according to the information given to him by Hanafi ulema?

Q: I have long hair and I refrain from cutting my hair after I came to know that for women it is impermissible to cut their hair. I observe hijab Alhumdulilah and I was wanting to have a nice hair cut not for any other purpose just because I want to have a nice hair cut once. Will it be permissible to cut my hair or is it haram?