Q: Is zikr bil kahar (la ilahaillah, illah and Allahu-allah), has roots from Quran and Hadeeth or from the lives of Sahaabah?

Q: I touched a woman with lust sometime ago and I now wish to marry her daughter. Is it permissible for me to marry her daughter, or is hurmat-e-musaaharah established due to the touching? Can you explain to me, does hurmat-e-musaaharah become established by merely touching a woman with lust or is it necessary for one to have an erection? Further, what is the sign of lust in a male and female?

Q: Is it permissible to wear any black dora on the stomach, feet or hand for women or a baby for nazar? You read and wear it?

Q: I stay in Durban but my parents stay in Newcastle. Every school holiday I go to visit them for about 2 weeks. Will I be considered a musafir when I am in Newcastle?

Q: Me ne ek maah pehla apni wife ko shari zubaani aur tehriri qanuni talaq de chuka hu magar wo zabardasti mere room ke barabar wale room me rehti he. Ghar chor kar nahi jati. Bohot bar bola bhi he. Uska taluq fiqa Jafria aur mera Hanafia se he. Kiya shariyat ke mutabiq isi tarah zabardasti reh sakti he ya ghar chorna hoga?

Q: I pray in the female prayer room in the university I go to, so there’s usually a lot of people around me praying with me. Unfortunately, my brain keeps focusing on their salah and judging how they pray, instead of focusing on my own salah and my own mistakes. It’s a terrible habit I have and I’m really disappointed in myself for having these thoughts. Please, any tips to stop this from happening? Should I pray on my own next time, just to avoid passing judgements on others?

Q: A lot of people tell me that you can delay isha prayer till midnight, is this true?

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 have a sore in my mouth which is bleeding and I eat with my hands, do my hands become napaak?

2. Also, if I lick my lips while my mouth is bleeding, do my lips become napaak?

3. Can I swallow the blood as it's in my mouth all the time and I can't keep spitting?