How should a new Muslim perform salaah?
Q: How should a new Muslim perform salaah if he/she does not know any verses of the Holy Qur'aan?
Various masaail of Salaah
Praying only in front of people to avoid being mocked at
Q: If someone doesn’t usually pray and just prays in front of people because if he doesn’t people will mock him, is it major shirk?
Performing salah in a room in which a child is changing
Q: Is it permissible to perform salah in a room in which a child is changing?
Binaa
Q: What is the procedure of doing binaa in salaat? Do you have to go back to the same place in Haram or is it ok to read from anywhere in the Haram once you have redone your wudhu.
And how do you rejoin the salat, in which rakaat etc in the situation where the imam has already finished?
Validity of salaah of a person who does not remove his pubic hairs for more than 40 days
Q: Is salaah valid if a person does not remove his pubic hairs for more than 40 days?
Taking sleeping tablets
Q: Is it permissible to use or prescribe sleeping pills? After using them, sometimes one is not in his conplete sense and sometimes says what will not usually say in public? Would Namaz be valid in this state? Can it be used if one is unable to sleep? Or can it be used sometimes when one wants to releive himself of worries?
Is the salaah of a person who smokes not accepted?
Q: If I smoke cigarettes, will 40 days salat not be accepted. Is it true? I mean, does smoking cigarettes have any effect on my salaah?
Performing Salaah with cigarettes and money in one's pocket
Q: Is it permissible to perform salaah while having cigarettes and currency (since they have picture on them) in one's pocket?
Guidelines on how to perfect one's salaah
Q: Could you please advise me on some english books and some guidelines on how to perfect your salaah to the highest level?
Using a microphone for Salaah
Q: If the Imam recites Qirat by mouth and there is only 3 lines (saffs) of musallees and the sound by mouth reaches till the 20th line (saff), but still he recites qirat using the microphone and the sound of the loud speaker reaches 5 decibles which can be heard in the building beyond the mosque. The sound level for the 1st line (saff) of musallees is about 95 decibles (dB).
1. Though the mouth is enough, still using the mike and loud speaker, is it tasarruf?
2. When the sound level (dB) goes up beyond the permissible limit (60 dB) what should we do?
3. During the Fajr prayer when the qirat is going on so loudly, it is very difficult to pray sunnat of Fajr.
4. Though the mouth is enough, still using the loud speaker, is it riya?