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How do I make ghusl? Can you please tell me the steps. Normally what I do is take a shower with minimum water and wash and rub the areas on where is impurity. Thereafter I gargle my mouth 3 times and put water into my nose 3 times and blow it. After coming from the… read more »
I can’t sit on the floor due to osteoarthritis, so I perform namaz, sitting on the chair. My questions are:- (1) How should I perform sajdah? By putting my hands (palm) on knees or the hands should be kept somewhat forward to my knees without support of anything to my palm? (2) In jamat where… read more »
Where to see while lifting our hands towards the ears at the start of salah? Whether to see on the place of sajdah or to keep our eyes straight towards Qiblah? And what about those people who keep their eyes straight while lifting their hand? بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (Fatwa: 311/344/L=04/1440) It is mustahab… read more »
My father is a rich person but he doesn’t intend to give his heirs his money, he always says that I will do sadaqah of my wealth before dying so that you don’t get any money. Is it possible that in his life he can use all his money as he wills? 2. In his… read more »
What should one do if gas passes while making wudhu or should he complete the already doing wudhu, e.g. if one is washing arms and gas passes should he repeat the wudhu or not? بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (Fatwa: 910/873/M=8/1439) If something happens that breaks wudhu at the time of making wudhu, for example… read more »
I wear amamah always. Is it allowed to wear an amamah of length more than seven hands long? Which colour are allowed and what are prohibited? بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (Fatwa: 851/751/SN=8/1439) Yes, it is lawful. No particular length of amamah is proved from Sahih Hadith. (See: Khasail Nabwi, Jam’ al-Wasail etc). However the… read more »
(1) In the time of fardh ghusl first I wash my two hands then wash my private part and impure thing of my body then I do wudhu (with gurgle) thereafter I pour water over my whole body then I rub my whole body with soap/body wash and thereafter I pour water over my whole… read more »
I want to know if I mixed my washed or paak clothes with napaak clothes or if I touch the paak clothes in the condition of janabat or after hambistari with my wife. Will the paak or washed clothes remain paak? Please reply me. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (Fatwa: 784/678/H=6/1439) (1) It is better… read more »
I am following Hanafi Madhhab. My question is, can we raise our hands in witr salah (while reciting dua al qunoot) as the imams of Haramain do? بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (Fatwa: 730/853/L=8/1439) In such situation the Hanafi should read Dua-e-Qunoot, but he should not supplicate raising his hands. وَيَتْبَعُ الْمُؤْتَمُّ قَانِتَ الْوِتْرِ… read more »
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (radiyallahu ‘anhu) has said that once he went out with Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) in a manner that his hand was Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam)’s hands. He passed by a person who was disheveled and worried. He asked, ‘What brought you to this condition?’ That person said, “Sickness and poverty have done… read more »