Salaah

Students performing jamaat salaah in a hostel

Q: We are hostellers, 3 friends (age 20-22) in one room and we have kept a separate place on the balcony of our room for jammat namaz where 4- 6 people (or more) can easily adjust without any problem. I heard a hadith that one who does not offer jammat salaah if he/she can, when he/she will be inside grave, his/her face will be moved away from the qiblah.

I told my friends about the hadith and one of my friends asked me who will be the imaan from amongst us since we all make mistakes. If anyone of us will be an imaam and if he makes a mistake, he will get the sin of the muqtadi's (people standing behind the imaam) also.

My point of view is that no one is perfect but we can try. If with full attention, concentration, seriousness, students like us would like to lead the jamaat of other students (even after knowing that we are not perfect), would it be wrong? 

Joining salaahs

Q:

1. Is our namaz valid if the Imaam combines two namaazes (zuhr-asr or maghrib-isha) as per Hambali maslak?

2. What is the procedure to be followed by a Hanafi follower if the bus driver does not stop for the maghrib prayer because the Hambali people do combine the namaazes later during isha?

Mispronouncing letters in salaah

Q: In sanna, instead of saying "Wata Baarakas mooka" I recited "Wata baarakas buka".

In Surah Ikhlaas instead of saying "QulhuwAllah" I recited "QulhuAllah".

In attahiyyaat I didn't pronounce the ha sound from throat.

Instead of pronouncing مُقِيمَ الصَّلَاةِ I pronounced "muqeemus salati".

In the tasbeeh of rukoo and sajdah I said "rabbial" instead of "rabbiyal" (I added yal instead of al) and I didn't pronounce the ha sound of these tasbeehaat from the throat.

I made all these mistakes without knowing it and I have made these mistakes in all my previous prayer since I started. Do I have to repeat all those prayers? 

Fidyah for qadha salaah

Q: My father has willed for us to pay fidyah for his qaza namaazes. We live in the US but also have a house and wheat fields in Pakistan.

1. Can we give his fida in Pakistan or do we have to give it in the US?

2. He has about 50 years of qaza namaazes and the rate per namaz is 1.6kg wheat?

3. Who should be given the fidyaa? 

Performing Salaah while seated on a chair

Q: I cannot sit in qa'dah position in salaah. Normally we use a chair only for qa'dah and sajdah and I stand in qiyaam. A person told me that I cannot stand in while performing salaah in jamaat. The reason being that you will not in be line with the saff and I will be standing in front of the the saff due to the chair being in line with the saff. Should I sit or stand?

Travelling safar distance

Q: Is it allowed to have 2 watan iqamah at one time?

Does leaving my “watan iqamah”, make my watan iqamah no longer my watan iqamah?

(Does traveling from my watan iqamah make my watan iqamah batil)?

For example - London is my watan iqamah (I’m staying there with intention of 2 years), if I travel to Rome from London, and then I have a flight to Dubai from Rome with a 1 day layover in London. When I’m in London for 1 day, will I pray full or qasr? Basically, when I left my watan iqamah for a few days, will that make my watan iqama null and void? Even if I plan on coming back to it after some time?