Salaah

Q: Does crying during one's salaah nullify the salaah? The crying is due to thoughts of emotional hurt, one's past, etc. coming to mind.

Q: On a trip out of town that necessitated qasar salaah, my sister checked the qibla direction using 2/3 apps. 2 gave a certain direction and the 3rd gave a different direction. We thus read our salaah according to the qibla direction from the two that were the same. However on the day we were leaving, I was on the balcony watching the sunrise and realised the sun was rising on the exact opposite direction of our qibla direction. In my understanding the qibla direction is north east and the sun rises in the east which meant our qibla was incorrect. Is this right? This doubt is lingering on my mind. Do I have to repeat my salaah? 

Q: If a person sets out on a journey to a certain place. There are two different routes that he can take to reach his destination. The first route is less than 78km while the second route is more than 78km. Will such a person be considered a musaafir if he takes any of the two routes when travelling to his destination?

Q: A fowl came into the home and soiled the carpet with droppings. Should I wash the soiled area only, or do I have to wash the entire carpet? If salaah was performed on the clean portion of the carpet before the entire carpet was washed, will the salaah be valid?

Q: I want to ask about travelling alone. My sister lives in Australia and she wants to visit us in India. She cannot come with her husband or son because of their work and school. My other sister is also coming from Saudi with her children so we can reunite as my mother is not well

My question is, is it permissible for her to travel alone as she is confused?

Q: I have nafil and sunnat prayers to make up that I used to break in the past and are now wajib. Is it valid if I make the niyyah of "2 rakat wajib"? Or do I have to specifically make niyyah of sunnat/nafil and which daily prayer they belonged to?

Q: If I recite few words of Surah Fatiha or attahiyyat after rising from first sajdah and then go back to 2nd sajdah, is my prayer valid or do I have to do sajdah-e-sahw?

Q: In qiyaam, if I lift up my toes or my foot from ground, does this invalidate my prayer?

Q: I am from Roshnee, studying in Azaadville (distance between Roshnee and Azaadville is 76 Km). My wife is from Rustenburg which is +/-100 km to Azaadville.

So we staying together here in Azaadville, but I do not intend ever settling down here because I have to basically just finish my studies.

Ps. We usually don't stay here for more than 15 days. So can the following intentions be permissible: 

My niyyah: My darul watan is still Roshnee, I make niyyah for safr when I leave Roshnee intending to continue my journey more than safr distance, and stay in Azaadville for less than 15 days (by our flat).

My wife's niyyah: She keeps Rustenburg as her darul watan as she hasn't established herself anywhere else yet, not Roshnee nor Azaadville. Azaadville is just a darus safr as she will not stay for more than 15 days like myself. She reads qasr when in Roshnee.

So do I read qasr in Rustenburg? Are these intentions correct or should we change our niyyah to base ourselves in Azaadville and work accordingly or what is Mufti Saheb's opinion?

Q: I have recently heard that if you start a prayer, even if that prayer is nafil or sunnat, and you break it, that prayer becomes wajib. I used to do this quite often in the past. Can I offer tawbah or must I make them up? I have no idea how much I have, so if I must make them up, how should I go about doing so?