Salaah

Q: If you don't pray five times salaah, are you still a muslim? even though you believe in them that they are obligatory.

Q: Does Allah accept good deeds like giving charity, saying zikr and durood shareef person who doesn't pray five times per day. I was told if you don't pray your five times fardh salaah your good deeds doesn't get accepted.

Q: An individual is paralysed from the waist downwards. He is unable to make wudhu and there is no one present to help him make wudhu. How will such a person perform his salaah?

Q: If a person is standing and performing Salaah in a bus or train, does he have to face the qiblah in the beginning only or for the full duration of the Salaah? If the bus moves away from the qiblah what should he do?

Q: Is it permissible to read Salaah while travelling in a car/bus / train by sitting (as there is no place to stand)? Is this permissible for all Salaah including fard? If standing is a pillar of fard Salaah, upto what duration the Salaatul qasr is applicable in case of return journey within some days.

Q: While in sujood, can I make dua in my own language? For example, I ask Allah's help for my work, or ask for betterment for my family's health or ask for jannah? If yes then in nafl sujood only or even fard/sunnah?

Q: In a video I have heard a scholar say that if a person, whether a man or a woman, only prays namaaz during Ramadaan but does not pray the rest of the year is a Kafir. Is it true that if a person does not offer namaaz the whole year but only prays during the month of Ramadaan is a Kafir?

Q: Is salaah compulsory upon a person who is advanced in age and is unable to perform his salaah correctly due to forgetting the number of rakaats he has performed and the sequence of the postures of salaah? If yes, how should he perform his salaah?

Q: A patient in hospital is put on drips. He is unable to perform wudhu and cannot perform salaah facing the qiblah. How should he perform his salaah?

Q: From your Namaaz chart (http://muftionline.co.za/node/11013) I have seen that there are total 15 rakaats in Esha salah. But I have heard that there are total 17 rakaats in Esha salah i.e. 4 sunnah, 4 fard, 2 sunnah muakadah, 2 nafl, 3 witr and 2 nafl. Please clarify.