Salaah

Q: I want to ask that I live in Karachi and the asar time in my city starts from 3.27pm and the adhan for prayer is being called off by 4.15pm but I am a student. I have to go to coaching to take my classes and my class starts from 4.15 to 5.00 and there is a 5 minute break but in that 5 minute break there is such a rush of people so I am not able to pray my Asr Salaah and the next class begins from 5 - 5.45 but at 5.45 it is time for Maghrib. Can I pray before adhan is called?

Q: I was told that one is allowed to recite any dua in Arabic in the sajda of one's salaah. I understand this does not refer to fard salaah. Is this allowed in the sunnah salaah, e.g. 4 rakaats before zuhr and the salaah after the fard salaah. Please assist.

Q: Please can you advise me what to do when my aged parents call me and I am praying fardh/sunnah/nafl salah. Is it permissible to break my salaah when parents call out/children start to cry?

Q: I am taking an online aalimah course and because of time differences, South African time goes from before maghrib 6:00 to 8:30 after esha has already set in. The asaatizah have told us that we should leave for salaah and catch up with the missed portion of the lesson later.i.e. We definitely shouldn't miss our Salaah for classes. Our first lesson completes at 7:00 or 6:45 depending on subject and day. Can I wait for the first lesson to complete and then read my maghrib Salaah before the next subject or should I immediately leave the lesson and catch up later?

Q: I am from the UK and currently in school. I am baaligh and unfortunately the school does not facilitate for us any place for Salaah. What should I do? It is compulsory to attend school but what can I do if they don't allow us to pray Salaah and we have lessons during Salaah time. Now in winter, we will definitely miss Asr Salaah. They don't allow you even for 5 Minutes to go pray and come back. Please advise me.

Q: I have the habit of performing salaah with my eyes closed, and by doing that I think I can concentrate better than if my eyes are opened. What is the sunnah, to keep the eyes closed or open during salaah?

Q: Kindly tell me what is the difference between Azaan and Iqaamah? Kindly consider this Hadith "The people mentioned the fire and the bell (they suggested those as signals to indicate the starting of prayers), and by that they mentioned the Jews and the Christians. Then Bilaal was ordered to pronounce Adhan for the prayer by saying its wordings twice, and for the Iqama (the call for the actual standing for the prayers in rows) by saying its wordings once. (Iqama is pronounced when the people are ready for the prayer). Sahi Bukhari Volume 1, Book 11, Number 577 in Azaan we saying words twice but in iqamah we saying words once as mentioned in above hadees. Kindly now tell me your answer as per Quran and Hadees.

Q: A person performed his esha and witr salaah on a particular day. Later, he realized that his esha salaah was not valid (after the time for esha and witr had expired). Should he just perform the qadha of esha (since it was invalid) or should he also perform the qadha of witr (even though he performed witr correctly)?

Q: The tahajjud when you pray four rakaats or more, is there a salaam in every two rakaats or when you make an intention to perform eight rakaats you will perform it with a salaam on the last rakaat? or on the eight rakaat?

Q: I just want to clarify something, i've read that when someone performs Salaah he should look straight so what does it mean? What I know is that when someone performs Salaah he should look at the floor where his forehead be placed when he is in sujood. What is the correct way to perfrom Salaah?