Five Daily Prayers
1,577 questions
What are the times for the five daily prayers? What is the wisdom behind separating these times? What is the time of necessity? And how do we calculate half the night?
Is the prayer led by an Imam who made a mistake in a verse then corrected it after being prompted by the congregant valid or invalid, and should the prayer be repeated?
What is the reason for the delay in provision – such as marriage – despite daily recitation of Surat Al-Baqarah and abundant seeking of forgiveness? And do weakness of faith or lack of contemplation play a role in this? And is it a condition to continue reciting Surat Al-Baqarah for 40 days for the provision to come?
What should one who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder concerning purity and prayer do when she finds a recurring movement in the anus during prayer and feels air bubbles in the anus? Should she interrupt her prayer and repeat her ablution and prayer?
Is it permissible to abandon the supererogatory prayers after the obligatory prayer?
Will the prayer of a person whose project is half permissible and half forbidden be accepted, knowing that he is married, has a son, pays rent, and this situation has persisted for years?
Can a Muslim combine committing a grave sin with consistently performing the Dawn prayer (Salat al-Fajr)?
Does the inability to pronounce the letter "seen" (س) and articulating it as "saad" (ص) affect the validity of the prayer?
What is the ruling on each of the following: someone who consistently prays at home while acknowledging its obligation in the mosque, someone who consistently prays but delays Fajr until sunrise (Ishraq), someone who consistently prays the five daily prayers but delayed Asr out of laziness and prayed it with Maghrib, and someone who consistently prays all prayers but once left Asr out of laziness? Is any of them considered an apostate (kafir), disobedient (asi), or a perpetrator of a major sin (murtakib kabira)?
What is (incumbent) upon someone who prayed while his garment had slight impurity (such as feces), in two scenarios: if he was unaware of it at the time of the prayer then came to know of it, or if he was aware of it but forgot to remove it and prayed then remembered?
What is the correct text of the Muslim Hadith: "Whoever perfects his ablution and prays a fard (obligatory prayer) with devotion, Allah will forgive his sins, or the sins of a lifetime, as long as he does not commit a major sin," and what is its explanation, and is it possible to enumerate the major sins intended to be avoided?
Is it permissible to wipe over defiled socks due to urine splashes and pray with them, based on the Maliki school of thought, which considers the removal of impurity to be a Sunnah?
Is the Hadith: "If a woman prays her five [daily prayers], fasts her month [Ramadan], guards her chastity, and obeys her husband, she will enter Paradise from any of its gates she wishes," authentic, or is it suspicious and not to be used as evidence? And does its meaning imply that a woman can reach Al-Firdaws through one of these gates, or are these gates for a single rank?
What is the ruling on praying on a prayer mat and a cloak that have been touched by foot perspiration, and are the previous prayers valid?
What is the ruling on one who doubts during the prostration of forgetfulness whether he performed one prostration or two, and then salam-ed from the prayer due to not knowing what to do?
Should the prayer be repeated if one forgets its exact form and the nature of the doubt that arose concerning it?
What is the ruling on changing the intention of a prayer after completing it, and must the prayers whose intention was changed be repeated, or do they remain obligatory?
Did Sheikhs Ibn Baz and Ibn Uthaymeen issue a fatwa that the Earth does not rotate and that the sun revolves around it, and that whoever says otherwise has committed an act of disbelief? If this is true, how could eminent scholars like them create such a doubt regarding the Qur'an?
Is it obligatory for someone who interrupted their prayer due to an elderly man's distraction, and then re-offered it individually, to inform the congregants who prayed with them that they must repeat their prayer?
What are the seven major sins mentioned in the noble Hadith: "There is no servant who prays the five prayers, pays Zakat, fasts Ramadan, performs Hajj to the House, and avoids the seven major sins, except that it will be said to him on the Day of Resurrection: 'Enter Paradise in peace'"?
What is the ruling on the prayer of one who forgot a cloth soiled with urine in his pocket and remembered it during the prayer? And is he required to repeat it? If repetition is obligatory, what should he do if he does not remember the specific prayer?
What is the ruling on making up one or two prayers before each obligatory prayer, sometimes without completing the make-up of the five daily prayers, though mostly completing them, for someone who did not pray previously?
Is the husband's saying to his wife in a moment of anger, "By God, I do not love you, and by God, I do not want you," considered an oath of divorce or an oath that necessitates expiation for breaking an oath, especially since they have agreed to start a new chapter?
Is it correct to rely on astronomical timings to determine the time for Fajr prayer, and what is the ruling regarding prayers performed based on that before the appearance of redness in the horizon?