Q: Suppose I come to the masjid and I have little time before zuhr jamaat to pray the 4 sunnah muakkadah. Can I pray 2 unit rakah before fardh and 2 after fardh so that I can join the jamaat or the 4 units cannot be split?
Q: I follow Hanafi madhab. Since a few days, our Imam is praying dua in fardh of fajr salaah. On the very first occasion he did this dua in the fardh of fajr in the second rakah before going to ruku and from the next day he started doing it after getting up from ruku.
Now with the differnce in these 2 days, is our fardh salaah valid on both occassions? I know about the special prayers to make when in distress if the Islamic world is facing problems but is it allowed in the Hanafi madhab?
Q: Ishraaq is read 15 minutes after sunrise. How long after that is it permissible to still read ishraaq?
Q: Can a person who is not regular with his farz namaaz be eligible to offer tahajjud namaaz?
Q: If a person is performing six, eight, ten or twelve rakaats of tahajjud, should he perform them in sets of two, making salaam after every two rakaats, or can he perform them all together and make salaam at the end?
Q: If a person prays 4 rakaats nafl with one salam, do you have to recite thana in the 3rd rakaat?
Q: Do we pray Salatul Duha in pairs of 2 or 4 rakaats with one salam?
Q: I heard that if one reads the last few aayats of Surah al Kahf and makes a niyyat to get up for tahajjud then it will be easy to get up. Is this true?
Q: My question is about tahajjud...
My mother often, not regularly, wakes up for tahajjud and offers tahajjud namaaz as she cannot do so due to her health. She offers it regularly in Ramadhaan, Shawwal, Muharram and Zil Hajj, etc. (special months). Me and my sister also offer tahajjud daily Alhamdulillah.
Recently, one of my relatives told my mother that if you have started offering tahajjud namaaz or if you offered it one day, you cannot quit it. It becomes fardh for you. I told my mother that this is baseless since a nafal namaz cannot become fardh but she wants to confirm it. Please clarify this according to the Ahle-e-sunnat sect.
Q: Does a positive istikhaara necessarily mean that the action will be carried out? Does that mean it is decreed?