Prayer and Fasting at Work
1,531 questions
What is the ruling on working in the teaching profession in Tunisia, given the presence of gender mixing in institutes, and with my knowledge of the noble Hadith: "There will come a time upon the people when you will have foolish rulers who will put the wicked people in front and delay the good people, and they will delay the prayer from its appointed times. So, whoever among you witnesses that, let him not be a supervisor, nor a policeman, nor a tax collector, nor a treasurer"?
Am I obligated to feed ten needy persons for each day if I swore to pray in congregation upon hearing the dawn adhan or the mobile alarm, then I slept after hearing the adhan?
Are these secretions and blood drops that appeared in the first days of Ramadan, after the menstrual period was delayed from its usual time, considered menstruation that prevents fasting, prayer, and reading the Quran, given that there are no menstrual pains?
What is the ruling on delaying Fajr prayer until after the husband leaves for work, for fear of disturbing or scolding him, knowing that the time for Fajr begins at 3:00 AM and he leaves for work at 6:00 AM?
Is it permissible for a married man who is a sojourner in a land of temptations to masturbate to quench his desires?
Does the recollection of naked images (especially the male organ) upon seeing men in the street or relatives invalidate one's fasting or prayer?
Is it permissible to combine the invocations (adhkar) for waking up and those for the morning, as well as combining the invocations for sleep and those for the evening, due to circumstances of sleep and work?
Are the fasting, prayers, and deeds of a girl who loves another girl and treats her as a wife and mistress accepted?
Does swallowing saliva that has gathered on the lips after wetting them with the tongue invalidate the fast, whether done out of ignorance of the ruling or not, and does this necessitate making up the fast or offering expiation?
What is the ruling on praying behind an imam who collects donations for building a Tijani zawiya, knowing what this order contains of polytheistic matters, and is he considered an apostate by his action, such that prayer behind him is not permissible?
What is the ruling regarding water droplets that descend after urination, are they impure, and what is their effect on the validity of prayer and fasting?
Is it permissible to leave work for prayer or to buy food, while there is another employee who is performing the work by agreement with him?
Is the fast of one who engaged in sodomy at night, then awoke fasting while in a state of major ritual impurity (junub), and then performed ghusl after the dawn prayer, valid, or must he make up that day?
Are the children sinful for refusing to give their deceased father’s wife household items belonging to their mother, knowing that the wife is demanding them based on a list of household items signed by the father, while he did not buy her anything from those items except for a bedroom set?
Is it permissible for a fasting person in Ramadan to go to prayer after eating three dates immediately upon hearing the Adhan, and does the ruling differ between fasting and breaking the fast?
Why has question number 2417540 not been answered yet, given that the promised period (one week) has been exceeded by more than 30 days, while the brother's question was answered within 4 days?
Is it permissible for a working woman to combine prayers if her working hours sometimes end at the time of Maghrib, given that there is a prayer room at work? Is it permissible to wipe over socks without shoes if she has Wudu'? And is it considered showing off or hypocrisy if she leaves the office to enter the prayer room during menstruation to avoid embarrassment from her colleagues?
Must I re-observe a day of Ramadan due to the devil's whisper that I drank, knowing that I completed the fast with the intention of making it up, and then fasted after a period of time?
To what extent does the overlap of uttering the intention to fast with the Fajr adhan affect the validity of the fast? Is uttering the intention obligatory? Is using the word "tomorrow" in the intention incorrect? Does doubt about the validity of a specific day's fast necessitate its قضائها (making it up)? And what is the authenticity of the presented arguments concerning these issues?
Is one who abandons reciting the Qur'an, remembering God, and performing the night prayer sinful because doing so causes sorcery to exhaust him and renders him unable to work?
Are all the conditions of semen required for it to be ruled as such? And is the thin white fluid discharged after watching permissible family films—without feeling desire—considered semen that necessitates ghusl and invalidates the fast?
Do marital disputes, and the accompanying oaths, insults, and subsequent repentance, affect the reward of acts of worship such as prayer, fasting, and charity, and does the meaning of "Impure women are for impure men" apply to this situation?
My friend takes care of widows, orphans, and divorced women, providing them with education, money, and healthcare for the sake of Allah, in accordance with the prophetic hadith which states that the one who strives for the widow and the needy is like the mujahid in the way of Allah, or one who stands in prayer all night and fasts all day. He asks whether he will be counted as a mujahid, and thus be saved from the compression of the grave, the stunning at the blowing of the Trumpet, and the questioning by the two angels?
What is the ruling on castration for one who is unable to abandon masturbation, fornication, or gazing [at that which is unlawful]?