Five Daily Prayers
1,577 questions
Does swallowing saliva carrying the taste of juice, which was drunk before wudu, invalidate the Fajr prayer, especially if the worshiper felt that he had exited the prayer—or that his prayer was invalid—during bowing, and then completed his prayer?
What is the ruling on one who performs the five daily prayers in the mosque and then curses people, and on one who swears falsely by Allah while praying, and on one who boycotts one of his siblings at home because he constantly talks about and insults people?
What is the ruling regarding the actions of a girl whom God has guided to know the correct path, and she performs the five daily prayers according to the methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah, while her parents prevent her from praying in this manner and want her to pray according to their esoteric methodology or to abandon prayer to conform to society? What is the ruling regarding her action of changing her prayer method? And what should she do concerning congregational prayers that combine prayers, which she does not prefer, and concerning the mosque imam who asks her to finish her prayer quickly?
What is the ruling on doubting a legal ruling (hukm shar‘i) during prayer, and is it considered to invalidate it? And what is the ruling on women passing or praying in front of me in the prayer area, and does that invalidate the prayer?
Is it obligatory to repeat prayers that were performed facing a direction other than the Qiblah? And if repetition is obligatory, should the missed prayers be made up in their daily order, or is it permissible to make up Fajr prayers, for example, with the current Fajr prayer? And is it necessary, when intending to make up a prayer, to specify the obligatory prayer along with its day?
Is it a condition for women's prayer attire that it not resemble men's clothing?
What is the ruling on uttering the Name of Majesty "Allah" by omitting the letter "Hāʾ" (هـ), such as saying "al-Lā" or "in shāʾal-Lā"?
Is the room designated for prayer in the company building considered a mosque or a musalla, and what are the differences, rulings, and conditions related to each?
Is it true that whoever regularly performs the five daily prayers in the mosque will enter Paradise without reckoning or punishment, and does the saying of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, apply to him: "Five prayers Allah has ordained upon His servants; whoever performs them and does not neglect anything out of them, belittling their right, will have a covenant with Allah that He will admit him to Paradise"? And does the interpretation of the verse: "Indeed, the patient will be given their reward without reckoning" mean that they will enter Paradise without punishment or reckoning?
What is the ruling on prayers performed by Muslims behind a non-Muslim imam, unknowingly, and what must they do after becoming aware of it? Is it permissible for someone who prayed behind an imam whose prayer they were not confident in due to the imam's errors to repeat the prayer, and will they receive the reward for congregational prayer?
Does the reward of one who is overtaken by dawn while praying qiyam al-layl but has not prayed witr become lost, compared to one who has prayed witr with a single rak'ah and has not prayed any other qiyam al-layl?
Does the superintendent of the waqf have the authority to expand the imam's house by taking a portion of the prayer area for obligatory prayers or by building on land adjacent to the mosque, especially given that some mosque administrators do not build spacious houses for imams?
Is it obligatory to repeat the Dhuhr, Asr, and Maghrib prayers if a spot of shoe polish is found on the foot after the Isha prayer, and it was removed and ablution performed thereafter for the performance of Isha?
Does a worshiper's head movement for the Tasleem, by mistake, during the last Tashahhud, and then correcting it and completing his Tashahhud before completing and uttering the Tasleem, affect the validity of the prayer?
What is the ruling on habitually performing the regular Sunnah prayers daily behind the belated congregational prayer?
What should one do who joined an Imam, thinking he was praying Maghrib, then it became clear to him that the Imam was praying four rak'ahs of 'Isha?
Are the five daily prayers, supplication, remembrance of God, reading the Quran, Hajj, and Umrah sufficient for deliverance from homosexuality, or is it necessary to inform one's father and consult with the mosque's imam, taking into account the father's responsibility in upbringing and the familial and personal factors that led to the problem?
What is the ruling on one who slept through the Shafʿ and Witr prayers?
What is the ruling on the prayer of a woman who intentionally uncovers a part of her hijab from the front, and is there a consensus among scholars that the prayer of one who intentionally uncovers a part of their 'awrah during it is invalid?
What are the Shar'i dispensations that those afflicted with obsessive doubts (waswasah) can benefit from, especially concerning obsessive doubts about ritual purity (taharah), bodily fluids, and prayer?
What are the virtues of Fajr prayer and the reward for it? Are the supererogatory prayers (Nawafil) the same as the regular Sunnah prayers (Sunan Rawatib), or do they differ? And what is the number of Rak'ahs for the supererogatory prayers?
What is the ruling on frequent handshaking after the five daily prayers inside or outside the mosque? And what is the evidence for that?
Do the gases a worshiper feels during prayer, without hearing a sound, smelling an odor, or feeling air bubbles, nullify ablution, and must he interrupt the prayer and repeat ablution if he doubts whether wind has exited?
Can the Istikhara Du'a be provided in English?