Salaah

Q:

1. I would like to know what are the attributes of a person being imam and leading salaah?

2. Can a haafidh who is known to exploit and be dishonest or is a substance abuser lead salaah; fardh or taraweeh salaah?

Q: During salah, I frequently forget any fardh and due to which I do sajda e sahw, am I correct?

Q: If I perform salaah in the musjid with a garlic, onion, cigarette or sweat smell on my body or clothing, is my salaah valid?

Q: I recited the last few aayahs of Surah ar-Rahmaan in the last rakaat of witr, but I skipped the second-last and third-last aayahs by mistake. Is my salah valid?

Q: While praying fajr salaah, I got up from ruku, but I was not totally straight. Is my salah valid?

Q: Can a musaafir pray in Masjid-e-Namirah and Masjid-e-Khair during hajj , as the imaam there offers only 2 rakaats irrespective of whether he is a muqeem or a musaafir as their madhab says to read only 2 rakaats during hajj?

Q:

1. A musaafir read four rakaats salaah unknowningly and after a couple of days he corrected it to two rakaats. Will his salaah be valid?

2. A musaafir read two rakaats but someone told him to read 4 rakaats and due to confusion, he reads four rakaats. Does the first salaah count and will the second salaah which was read as four rakats be regarded as nafl? 

Q: This Ramadhaan, Alhamdulillah we have had many Hufaadh leading us in Taraweeh Salaah all over the world. Some with great Qiraat and beautiful recitations.

However in a masjid that we were praying at, a Hafidh was leading us in taraweeh salaah. The said Hafidh is a businessman, but a known exploiter of his employees and also has dishonesty in his dealings. Is our Salaah behind him counted or should we reperform our Salaah.

What advice can we give to trustees of the Masjid regarding this?

Q: Can one pray nafl salah after having prayed sunnah salah if time permits before the jamaat for the fardh salah starts?

Q:

1. Is reciting bismillahir rahmanir raheem before alhamdu in namaz obligatory? If one doesn't read bismillah before alhamdu, either in the first or second, third or 4th rakaat is their salah nullified?

2. Is reciting rabbigh firli in between sajadah obligitory? If one doesn't recite this inbetween sajda and just says subhana rabbiyal a'ala in sajadah and sits and says Allahu akbar and then goes into sajadah again and says subhana rabbiyal a'ala, is this incomplete and is the namaz nullified because the believer didn't say rabbigh firli between the sajadah?

3. Is it obligitory to say bismillah before or after any surah during namaz? If one doesn't, is their namaz invalid?

4. If a woman reads silently where her lips and tongue is moving but you cannot hear her, are her prayers invalid? She lives in a joint family, where her husband's cousins, both male and female come and go and she cannot say for sure who is at home and who isn't. It is a 3 floor house, with she occupying one room and the opposite room belongs to her husband's uncle and her husband's cousins.

5. If a woman has been praying normally but hasn't been saying bismillahir rahmanir raheem before surah fatiha (as in scenario 1) and hasnt been saying rabbigh firli in between the sajadah (scenario 2) and hasnt been saying bismillahir rahmanir raheem before or after any surah in namaz (as in scenario 3), and has been reading quietly and has been moving her lips and tongue and no one is able to hear her, has all her namaz been invalid if she has been praying like this? She was unaware that a woman is to pray aloud she knew reading quran should be read in a tone one can hear themself but she didnt know you are suppose to hear yourself during namaz