Q: What is the Shar'ee ruling regarding children standing in the first saff for salaah? Is this permissible?

Q: My dad has a pair of relatively old brown leather slippers. As I am not an expert, I do not know if any part of the slippers is made from cow or pig leather. Yesterday he used those slippers for wudhu and with wet feet, he walked in a carpeted room for Salaah. I then performed wudhu in a separate pair of slippers and walked in to the same room, with wet feet, to perform Salaah in Jamaat with him. Some wetness that remained on my feet, transferred to my clothes whilst in the sitting position. My dry hands touched the same carpet. Questions are as follows:

Q: Minuscule food parts in mouth after wudhu, does it affect the wudhu from being valid? i.e. they were floating in the mouth when rinsing mouth during wudhu. Moreover, what is the ruling on doing wudhu when one has food particles between one’s teeth?

Q: After wudhu and prayer one sees few (say 3 or 4) black minuscule grains of something (like a minuscule grain of powder or dust) under the nails, had it affect his wudhu?

Q: My menses started on Monday 30 Aug , it stopped on Sat 4 Sep . I made ghusal on Sunday before sehri ended, and commenced fasting and also performing Salaah. This morning (7th) when I went to the toilet I noticed a light discharge and a clot of blood, should I make ghusal again and are these fasts accepted or should I count these as qadha when I start keeping my qadha fast? Please advise as I have this problem on a monthly basis!

Q: As nail polish nullifies wudhu, is it okay for one with onychophagia (nail biting disorder which is part of the OCD spectrum) to wear clear nail polish or bitter tasting nail polish to prevent her or himself from biting as it is damaging to the skin around the nail, cuticles, etc and puts the person at a risk of infection if they don't take steps to stop nail biting or is it still haram despite the health risk?

Q: Can one clip ones nails or shave the hair during (any of the days of) ones periods (menses)? 

Q: Somebody takes ghusal (including wudhu), afterwards he put on his khuffayn. Later on he discovers a part that he left dry (such as his belly button) during ghusal. Must he also take of his khuffayn and wash the feet together with the part he left dry?

Q: I want to know the ruling of using automatic washing machine. Is our clothes pure or impure.

Q: Once my wife’s periods finished, we had sexual intercourse before she could take ghusal (bath), really we fear azaab (punishment) of Allah Subhanu Wata’aala on this matter. May Allah forgive me for this and guide me to spend my life according to the Sharia.