Q: This is how I discharge my zakaat every year:
A certain lady is in charge of an organization that builds homes for widows, so what I do, for example, 200 000 dollars is my zakaat, so I give it to her and tell her build homes for 4 widows, sometimes I give the money directly to the bank in charge of the project, is this ok?
Q: In Ottawa, Canada, in a Musalla at Human Concern's building Juma Prayer had been carried out for many many years. Earlier after the change of time by one hour the prayer time used to be adjusted there accordingly.
But for the last over one year they have now fixed for the whole year Prayer time without any adjustment due to time change. The timings are as under:
In Ottawa, in the month of March after the time change the Zawal or beginning of prayer Zuhur is also around 13:20 pm. Also for all the duration of this time change, the Zawal time is after/during the Khutba. Some people approached the in charge & suggested to adjust the timing like earlier years but he did not agree & mentioned that the Juma Prayer can be at any time & not necessary after Zawal.
After this talk, on the next Friday during the major part of khutba the speaker announced that the Juma prayer can be made between any time after about 20 minutes of SUNRISE and up to the end of Zuhur prayer time. I would like to add that in that Musalla the Juma khutba & prayer is led by rotation by various people but often the above mentioned speaker leads the Juma khutba & prayer. He also announced that if you think that this statement of mine is not correct let me know any thing which is against this statement with proper reference & proof.
I understand that after the influence of the above speaker the Juma prayer time has been fixed for the whole year without any change/adjustment of time due to the one hour increase/reduce of time in North America watches.
In this connection I have the following questions:
I myself worked in Saudi Arabia for 15 years & Alhamd-o-Lillah had the opportunity to pray Juma prayers in both the Haramain Sharifain many many many times, in various other cities of Saudi Arabia Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jizan, Riyadh, Najran, Jeddah & Jubail. Everywhere there was 1st Azan one hour before the start of Khutba. But the 2nd Azan before Khutba used to be after the Zawal's time.
In view of the above, I request you to kindly let me know that how far the above is correct with proper references/preferably with the attachment of references if any. The intention is only to correct if this practice is incorrect. I intend to pass on the the details to in-charge/management for corrective action if needed.
I shall be highly obliged if you could enlighten and clear this subject at the above address.
Q: If three people are offering Salah in jamaat then how should they stand?
Q: I am a follower of Hanafi madhab, I have 2 masjids to pray salaah during Zohar, Asar & Magrib Salaah in my office, kindly advise in which masjid I need to pray according to Hanafi.
Masjid1: Shafi Imam with Sunnah beard but Quraan recitation is not fully tajweed
Masjid 2: Hanafi Imam(Aalim) without Sunnah Beard (i.e. Trimming the beard) but quran recitation is fully Tajweed.
Till now I am praying behid with Shafi Imam because his beard is according to sunnah.
Q: I read in a book that if you change a letter during recitation in salaah, the salaah is broken. Such as reading the letter ت instead of د such as at the end of Surah al Falaq reading HASET instead of HASED. But somehow when I recite HASED no matter how much I pay attention to recite it with D I hear a T sound at the end coming out. Does this still break salaah? To break salaah does it need to change meaning, if HASED is read as HASET does it change meaning?
Q: What is the requirement to become an Imaam?
Q: What is the reward of Salah?
Q: Will the jamaat with the female household exclude one from all the severe warnings?
Q: What is the repercussions of performing Salah alone?
Q: How important or what status (Fardh, Wajib) is Salah with congregation?