Salaah

Q: What nafl salaah can one perform during the day for rizq and sustenance and for success? What must ones intention be when performing such nafl salaah?

Q: I can not sit in salaah. I have knee problem and the doctor isn’t doing anything to help. I also have loud cracks when sitting down and standing up. Can you help me and tell me how I can sit because I am unable to sit in the positions in salaah. I am only 13 years old also and I have done lots of exercises and medicine but they didn’t help.

Q: I am pregnant and sometimes find it difficult to come up from sajdah without support. Once while performing salaah next to the bed, I rested my hand on the bed to take support while coming up from sajdah. Was my salaah valid?

Q: If someone is offering namaz and during namaz he feels that his wudhu is broken then what should he do in such a situation? Specifically if he is in the last rakaat?

Q: When you want to read a big surah in salaah, but not in full. Is it okay to read from anywhere in the surah and stop anywhere? And can you read one part of a surah in the first rakaat, the part after that in the second rakaat? Or do you have to read different surahs in each rakaat? 

Q: I don't pray salah because I find it very difficult. I can't manage time nor do I have good health. I also have to do wudu every time I pray and change clothes. Praying salah involves so much, I struggle with it very much. I'm amazed how some people can pray salah 5 times per day without struggle or any problems. Please give me some advise how to manage time, how to discipline myself to pray salah and how to make prayer most important thing in my life.

Q: Please advise with regard to the following:

Is it permissible for a Musallee to look inside the Quraan during Taraweeh? If not, is there any social occasion in which it would be permissible?

If we are 3 people in our Taraaweeh Jamaat - the Imaam and one Musallee is a Hafiz, but their dhor is not so good and plan to improve it by performing Taraaweeh - will it be permissible for the Musallee to look into the Quraan during the Salah?

Q: When traveling, how do I calculate safr distance? I am leaving from my house in Johannesburg to another place. From my house to the destination is 80km. But from the outskirts of my city to the outskirts of the place is 65km.

Do we work with the full distance or from the outskirts to the outskirts of the city?

Q: If someone is ill and has some disabilities, doing wudu and praying salah will increase the illness. He doesn't have anyone to help him. Can he do tayammum and pray sitting down?