Prayer and Fasting at Work
1,531 questions
What is your advice and what are the possible means of reconciliation between two brothers who are in dispute over accusations regarding the forgery of a house deed and the placement of a dead dove in the water tank?
Is it true that for one who severs ties of kinship, no prayer, zakat, fasting, or any good deed is accepted from him, and that his repentance might be rejected?
Is it permissible to fast and pray, and will these acts be accepted, while working in liquor stores in the United States of America?
How can a married couple pray and work towards being blessed by Allah with triplets, and is there a specific prayer or supplication for that?
What is the clarification of the condition "that the commanded act be non-existent" in Usul?
What is the ruling on professional football?
What is the ruling regarding a wife staying with her husband who does not pray, does not fast, and asks her to engage in anal sex, and is it permissible for her to seek a divorce?
Is a woman required to make up for the day she fasted in Ramadan, given that she saw a yellowish discharge after 'Asr prayer on the seventh day of her menstrual cycle, and her usual cycle is 7 or 8 days? And is the yellowish discharge after the menstrual period considered part of menstruation?
Are there any Quranic surahs that help someone looking for a job to find one?
How do I distinguish between madhy (pre-seminal fluid) in terms of consistency, color, and odor? Does it necessitate repeating wudu after every prayer? And what is the ruling on a towel that I used to dry madhy touching my body?
Is it obligatory to fulfill a vow made to perform charitable acts worth 3500 Saudi riyals monthly upon employment, given that the work found was for only two months and the questioner received only 300 riyals from it, and that she left it due to intermingling and harassment, and she is now unemployed and finds it difficult to find work free of intermingling that suits her specialization as a dentist? Is it permissible for her to work in mixed-gender environments in order to fulfill the vow? And does the expiation for the vow lapse if she is financially unable to fulfill it?
Is what the claimant took from the inheritance a legitimate right for him, and has he thereby taken what is not rightfully his, especially given the cooperation of all siblings in developing properties and accumulating wealth before and after the father's death?
What is the ruling on eating food in the home of a friend who works in a tourist hotel, cheats customers, and deals with alcoholic beverages? And does that affect the acceptance of the prayer of one who eats this food?
What should I do, as I have come to hate my job because my request for early retirement was not granted, even though I prayed Istikhara and my affairs were not facilitated? Should I resign, or should I be patient for the government's retirement administration to be merged with the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, due to the advantages that would entail?
Is a wife sinful if she wakes her husband for his prayers and he responds to her by replying, then does not wake up to perform them, and does not pray them until after their time has expired or after he has finished his work?
Is one who works in a shop, whose owner changes the television channel to music after the worker had set it to sports, committing a sin, despite the worker advising him and him refusing to change the channel? And is the worker committing a sin for delaying prayer due to work pressure in this shop?
Is it obligatory for the wife to seek divorce if her husband forces her to engage in anal intercourse, knowing its prohibition, and he neglects prayer while still fasting? And is it permissible for her to stop taking the birth control pills that her husband asks her to use, without his knowledge?
What should a person do who regrets his embezzlement of unlawful money and mixing it with lawful money? What is the ruling on the possessions he bought with this money, such as books and a computer? What is the ruling on his contribution to buying the family home? And is prayer valid in clothes bought with it, knowing that he still possesses a portion of the mixed money?
How can one reconcile the demands of arduous work, which may affect commitment to worship and threaten one with falling into temptation, with preserving one's religion and avoiding prohibitions, especially under circumstances of expatriation and instability?
What is the ruling on combining two prayers for a worker residing in a foreign country for study and work, given the difficulty of performing prayers at their original times and straitened circumstances? And do the rulings for a traveler apply to him?
Does a mother sin for the severing of ties with her brother, despite her repeated attempts to end this estrangement, knowing that the noble Hadith states: "If two people sever ties for more than three days and one of them dies, he will enter the Fire, and neither his fasting nor his prayer will be accepted"?
Is it preferable to continue in the current job, which allows for performing congregational prayers and their Sunnahs, but consumes 12 hours daily and leads to negligence in reciting, memorizing, and reviewing the Qur’an, in addition to delaying the 'Isha prayer due to transportation time?
Does resigning from work and returning to one's home country, after a previous Istikhara prayer resulted in the facilitation of matters concerning coming to Saudi Arabia, constitute a defiance of God's will and a severance of provisions, and is a new Istikhara prayer required for the return?
Is it permissible to give charity to the needy out of compassion, not to seek closeness to Allah, and does this constitute polytheism (shirk) or diminish the reward compared to one who gives charity seeking His pleasure? And is gratitude due to Allah alone? What are the acts that are performed for Allah alone and are not permissible to do for anyone else? What are the acts that combine seeking Allah’s pleasure and bringing happiness to creatures?