Prayer Times
1,346 questions
Is it necessary to repeat the prayer or perform the prostration of forgetfulness (Sujud Al-Sahw) when completing a pillar (rukn) or an obligatory act (wajib) in prayer (such as reciting Al-Fatiha or Al-Tashahhud) without awareness or concentration?
Why does the questioner experience worldly whispers and trivialities that are unrelated to prayer or the Qur'an specifically during times of worship?
What is the ruling on repeatedly performing ablution and prayer multiple times due to doubt about passing wind or dripping, and what is the remedy for the evil whispers that compel a person to harm themselves and isolate themselves from people?
What is the ruling on the expiation for an oath (kaffarat al-yamin) for someone who swore not to repeat ablution (wudu') or interrupt prayer due to obsessive thoughts (waswas), and sometimes he fulfills this oath and sometimes he does not, and he does not know the number of times he swore?
Is it obligatory to wash the hands three times when performing ablution immediately after waking up from sleep, and what is the ruling on someone who washed his hands before the time for prayer began, then performed ablution when the time for prayer commenced?
What is the ruling on obeying a father who will be angry with his son until the Day of Resurrection if he accompanies or speaks with anyone who talks about politics, knowing that the son is a university student and everyone around him talks about politics, and what is the Muslim's duty towards current events?
What are the directives regarding the obsessive thoughts about breaking wudu due to the continuous feeling of passing wind during ablution and prayer? Is it true that wudu performed more than three times is not elevated to the heavens? And is one sinful for delaying prayer until an hour before its time ends because of these obsessive thoughts?
Does the time for prayer commence with the Adhan, or slightly before it? And is it permissible for someone afflicted with urinary incontinence to perform ablution five minutes before the Adhan in order to catch the congregational prayer?
What is the ruling on the prayer of one who suffers from obsessive thoughts regarding purity, wind, and incontinence, and repeats the prayer many times, and when she resolved to repeat it after finishing it, she found menstruation? Does she have to repeat it after menstruation? And is her prayer invalidated because she intended to repeat it?
What is the ruling regarding a police officer who does not pray during working hours and performs the prayers upon returning home, and is he permitted to do so?
Is it permissible to supplicate for marriage to a girl with whom there was a previous relationship, and to supplicate for her well-being during prayer while sending her religious messages after repentance and severing the relationship?
What is the ruling on my prayer if I pray after hearing the call to prayer from a nearby mosque, while other mosques have not yet called to prayer?
What is the interpretation of seeing a light in the room in the same spot during the night vigil prayer (Qiyam al-Layl), and this has recurred four times?
What is the ruling on someone who washed the parts of wudu three times, then found a part that water had not reached, so he completed his washing for the fourth time? Is his action valid, or must he repeat the prayer?
What are the approved methods for calculating prayer times to create a reminder application?
How can one understand the occurrence of authentic hadiths with different wordings for the same hadith, even though the Prophet's saying or action is one? And can the meaning differ between them? And how should a Muslim deal with this difference? And does this contradict the preservation of the Sunnah?
Is what Ibn Taymiyyah transmitted concerning the consensus (ijma') that prayer is better than dhikr (remembrance of God) correct? And did anyone agree with him, or did others disagree?
How did Muslims wake up for Fajr prayer in the absence of modern alarm clocks?
If one repents of delaying prayers beyond their prescribed times, must they make up the prayers they had previously made up?
What is the ruling on one who disobeys Allah while hearing the Adhan directly from the muezzin or from the time of the Adhan?
How can one deal with the intermingling of istihada (abnormal uterine bleeding) with natural discharges – wetness – and distinguish between them in determining the times for ablution and prayer, especially since this confusion leads to hardship and delay in performing prayers?
Is it true that whoever recites after Fajr prayer six times: "There is no god but Allah alone, He has no partner. To Him belongs sovereignty as the One God, the Self-Sufficient Master whom all creatures need, who has not taken a wife or a son, and there is none co-equal or comparable to Him," will receive the reward of forty thousand good deeds?
What is meant by "fitna" in the sentence: "However, circumstances have changed in this time, and there is no power nor strength save in Allah, so a woman should not be absolutely prevented from going out; for this is a fitna for her, indeed a great fitna"? And is a husband's prevention of his wife from going out alone, out of fear for her exposure to evildoers, considered an exaggeration, and what is the solution if the wife dislikes this behavior?
Is what afflicted the spouses—psychological distress and a feeling of the presence of jinn in the house, especially after traveling to Europe and the wife's dispute with her brother over land—the evil eye?