Conditions for the validity of Salaah

Q: Is it impermissible to perform Esha salaah in the early morning before fajr has come in? What time frame exactly does one have to pray esha before it is considered a missed salaah?

Q: How many minutes before Esha can one perform Maghrib Salaah without it becoming qadha? In other words, till what time does Maghrib Salaah time remain?

Q: Can we perfom the Sunnats of fajr before fajr time begins?

Q: When does the time of Maghrib Salaah commence and terminate?

Q: Could Mufti Saheb please tell me if Salaah should be repeated if one carried a child and afterwards found his clothes to be damp. Thinking the dampness to be sweat he performed Salaah. After that he found that the child's diaper had leaked and it had not been sweat.

Q: I want to ask that I live in Karachi and the asar time in my city starts from 3.27pm and the adhan for prayer is being called off by 4.15pm but I am a student. I have to go to coaching to take my classes and my class starts from 4.15 to 5.00 and there is a 5 minute break but in that 5 minute break there is such a rush of people so I am not able to pray my Asr Salaah and the next class begins from 5 - 5.45 but at 5.45 it is time for Maghrib. Can I pray before adhan is called?

Q: I am taking an online aalimah course and because of time differences, South African time goes from before maghrib 6:00 to 8:30 after esha has already set in. The asaatizah have told us that we should leave for salaah and catch up with the missed portion of the lesson later.i.e. We definitely shouldn't miss our Salaah for classes. Our first lesson completes at 7:00 or 6:45 depending on subject and day. Can I wait for the first lesson to complete and then read my maghrib Salaah before the next subject or should I immediately leave the lesson and catch up later?

Q: I work in a non Muslim country and during lunch time; I go to my car and pray Zuhr prayer by sitting on driver seat without performing ablution (I do tayammum by touching my hands on the steering). Can my prayer be valid? I believe praying prayer like this is better than not praying at all.

Q: A family moves into an apartment, they use a well known Qibla finding app to locate the Qibla direction and pray. Months later a neighbour points out that the direction is wrong and they must face the other direction. The difference is about 90 degrees apart. What happens to those Salaah that were prayed in the incorrect direction, are they valid or do they need to be repeated? 

Q: Is it permissible to read namaaz with just a kurta and no pants and underwear underneath it?