Reciting softly in jahri Salaah
Q: If the Imaam prays Surah Fatiha silently in jahri salaat, would sajda-e-sahw be wajib? If only two verses or three verses are recited what will be the Hukm?
Salaah
Performing Salaah in a Ahl-e-Hadith Musjid
Q: Is salah valid if it is offered in:
1- Ahl-e-Hadith musjid?
2- Jamaat-e-Islami musjid?
Folding the corner of the Musalla
Q: Is it necessary to fold the corner of the jahe namaaz when it is not being used? I have heard some people say it is an innovation but most of my relatives do it.
Women performing Salaah at a petrol station
Q: I understand it is not good to travel without valid sharai' reason. However, I had to travel by car to another city because my husband was insisting to take me with him. During safar came time of asar, so he stopped at a gas station. There was an open masjid, where he told me to offer namaz. I did so, and at that time I did not remove my gloves, and kept my veil (which covers face and eyes) on. The reason was that it was an open masjid, and there were gas station's workers around. Is my salah valid, or should I repeat? I didn't feel good praying like this with na-mehram men around, but there was no other option.
The status of istikhaara
Q: Is istikhaara permissible?
Performing Salaah behind an Imaam that shaves his beard
Q: What is better, to offer Salaah behind a temporary Imam who don't have a beard and his pants are below his ankles and I am not sure about his level of Islamic knowledge or alone without jamaat?
Women's sajda
Q: Should a woman's forearm rest on the ground in sujood (prostration)?
Foregoing Salaah due to illness
Q: My father is 92 years old and suffered a stroke about a year ago. The stroke left him weak on one side, he is now not able to control his urine and hence he messes himself. So he now wears diapers. My father had been living with my sister and brother in-law until last month. He now lives with me in Cape Town. I have just learnt that my father hasn’t performed any Salaah for the past year. He says he can’t perform any Salaah because he is always in the state of impurity because he messes himself and he has to wear a diaper. What is the Islamic ruling in regard to this matter?
Reciting the same Surah in the first two rakaats of a fardh Salaah
Q: I recently led the jamaat for zuhr salaah and for some reason I have doubts and cannot recall if I read the same surah in the 1st and 2nd rakaat (after surah faatiha). I don't know the two gentleman that read behind me. What should I do to rectify this? What if I cannot find them?
Performing zuhr and asr in mithl-e-awwal
Q: Zaid prayed Zuhr Salaah in Asr misl-e-awwal time. Thereafter on the same day zaid prayed Asr Salaah in misl-e-awwal time. Is the Asr Salah valid? In the above situation if the Asr Salaah is not valid, does Zaid have make qadha of the Asar Salah?