Jamaat Salaah and Imaamat

Q: If I am in the first row for Salaah, and there is an aalim in the second row, can I offer him my place in the first row?

Q: 

1. What are the conditions for moving the Imaam’s musalla many saffs back and away from the mihraab when the number of people is less? I see this practiced in some Masaajid and not others.

2. What is the status of doing so in a Jamaat Khana?  

Q: If one is praying sunna prayers and another muslim comes and stands besides this person wanting to follow him as a muqtadi thinking that he is praying fardh.How should the person in salaah warn him that he should not join him because he is praying sunna not fardh?

Q: I am a teenager. I fullfil my daily salah with jammat but now I can't go to the musjid because I have no more clothes. I have only old clothes which is not in that condition to go musjid with wearing them. I suffered some financial crisis also I am a teenager so my clothes are unusable very fast as I grow but nowadays I am fullfiling my salaah at home. I know this is not the way of the prophet (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) but when I get clothes, I will rejoin musjid insha Allah. I am also very poor. Making clothes only in eid or some events, so this is only problem of some months, so what should I do?

Q: In fard salaah, if a persons wudhu breaks infront of you, can the person behind him take his place by moving forward? What is the best option in this regard?

Q: I am a Sunni Muslim and we pray different to Shia Muslims.

My question is, how should I pray with jamaat when I visit Karbala. Can you please put some light on this.

Q: Can a 15 year old boy lead fardh jamaat salaah?

Q: I have a few questions;

1. I’m a student at a university in Saudi Arabia. I sometimes have lectures from 3pm- 4pm, when asr time is around 3:20pm. The Muslims around me don’t get up and perform their salah when the prayer is called, they make it up after the lecture is over. So I wanted to ask, is it permissible to not attend to salaah because you are in a lecture hall while the teacher is teaching? I was very confused because I didn’t know whether I was just being overly attentive to my salah times and stressing over how to manage my classes timings and the salaah timings, or whether it’s essential for us Muslims to attend to our salaah immediately and a lecture is no excuse.

2. Sometimes I am eating, and the azaan is called, what should I do in that case? Should I stop eating and pray, then come back and finish my food? Or should I finish my food and then go pray?

Q: I read the Q&A related to performing jamaat salaah in a hotel in Al Haram, at http://muftionline.co.za/node/13093 and http://muftionline.co.za/node/25791 and http://muftionline.co.za/node/27480

In Pakistan, many masjids have 1st floor and few have 2nd floors as well. Please enlighten me that performing jamaat salaah on 1st and 2nd floor is valid or not?

Q:

1. If I am praying behind the imam and I have a few rakats to pray, when do I stand up; after the imam's first salam or when he finishes both salams?

2. If I stand up after the first salam, is my prayer valid?