Salaah

Q: During salaah, due to anxiety/anger because I heard someone in my family making unnecessary loud noises, I raised my voice in recitation a little. Is my prayer valid?

Q: In a few of my past prayers, I remember I had moments where I’d get confused or make a mistake during prayer due to being nervous and in those moments I’d cough or sniffle without necessity, as a result of embarrassment and me not wanting anyone around me to think that I was struggling during salah. Do these salah’s need to be repeated?

Q: In salah I mistakely thought women were supposed to point both toes towards the qibla in sajdah because I felt like I remembered reading an instruction which said that. My feet were both on the ground horizontally, however the toes were towards the qibla. I’d like to believe my past prayers were ok? Are prayers ok even if women follow the man’s way?

Q: We are going for Umrah. What will be the method to pray there... Can I Pray complete namaz or we can pray qasar namaz during our staying there?

Q: I heard in salah, errors to do with waqf dont matter. Does this apply to stopping in the middle of a word and then resuming?

I attempted reciting waladhaleen twice and every time between the ‘leen’ part, my voice stopped because of an obstruction in my throat. However, the third time I tried again and the same thing happened, after the pause, my voice came back a second later and finished reciting the remaining letters. Because I paused abruptly, is my salah fine?

Q: Can one perform Qadha of a missed Salaat during the period between the Sunnat of Fajr and Fardh of Fajr.

Note: After having performed my Fajr Sunnat I have sufficient time before the Fajr Fardh commences.

Q: Is it compulsory to recite 'wajjahathu wajhiyya...' in the starting of sunnah prayer and "allahumma ighfirlee maa qadhammthu..." in the tashahhud of sunnah prayer.

Q: I have difficulty concerning covering my awrah during prayer as a female.

1. I have quite a small forehead, and the hairs that cover the sides of my forehead are not the same length as my hair overall, but they’re longer than a person’s usual baby hairs. It causes me to overly look in the mirror and fix my scarf before salah just incase any show, and also causes me to bring my scarf down really close to my eyes. Due to this difficulty, if these certain hairs show during salah, can I overlook this?

2. Another thing I have a lot of difficulty covering are my wrists. Even If I try to use long sleeves, sometimes during sajdah the sleeve of my wrist gets lifted upwards (like towards the ceiling) - if that makes sense - due to me laying my forearms on the ground. Today, I saw my sleeve on my wrist during salah and it looked lifted and I had a slightly strong feeling that the way it looked it was probably showing my awrah but I didn’t attempt to change it because I was confused about what to do. I couldn’t tell if more than a quarter was showing or not from the angle I was sitting. I was also not sure if I should have moved to fix it regardless of if it was less than a quarter.

- If I notice that less than a quarter of awrah is showing during salah, then do I fix it or can I leave it?

- Can you confirm if I properly determined the quarter of my arm during salah because I’m not sure if i’m doing it right. To determine if a quarter of my arm shows, does it mean that my elbow is considered the halfway point? I feel guilty because I felt like if I had a strong feeling that my awrah was showing, I should have hidden it.

Q:

1. I recited ‘saliheen’ with a bottom throat ‘ha’ and noticed during the middle of reciting it during the enlongation of the last syllable. During the elongation of ‘heen’, even after I realised, I still pronounced it with my lower throat. Is this considered intentionally reciting something wrong and did it invalidate my prayer?

2. During the du’a portion of Witr, I usually recite Rabbana Atina Fidunya 3 times. The second time I recited it, it felt like I had recited ‘Rabbana atina fidunya hasanatan wa qina adhabanar’ as opposed to the correct full invocation. Because of my uncertainty, can I assume my prayer is sound?

Q:

1. Please advise whether one can read Tahiyyatul Masjid Salaah once Fajr time has set in.

Context to the question: I reach the Masjid and Fajr time has set in. I still need to perform my 2 Rakaats of Fajr Sunnat Salaah. There is sufficient time for the Farz Salaat to commence.

2. Also please advise of the same once Asr Time has set in.

Context to the question: I reach the Masjid and Asr time has set in. I still have sufficient time to perform my 4 Rakaats of Asr Sunnat Salaah. There is sufficient time for the Farz Salaat to commence.