Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badat Question: I have a personal dilemma and hope you can guide me in the right direction. I am a Ḥāfiz, alḥamdulillāh, so need to, and hope to lead tarāwīḥ. The question is about my haircut....
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Laughing Outside Prayer and the Status of Wuḍū
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: I know laughing within prayer breaks wuḍū, but does laughing outside prayer break wuḍū? Answer: بِسْمِ اللهِ...
Making Up Missed Prayers When I Have No Accurate Record
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: What do I do about my missed ṣalahs (prayers) and from what age should I make up all the missed ṣalahs? I started praying properly on a consistent basis a few years ago, but before then I would rarely...
Is Fear of Sickness Sufficient to Pray at Home?
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: Is fear of Covid-19 enough for someone to offer his ṣalāh (ritual prayer) at home? Can it fall under the Islamic concept of “fear of illness and or enemy”? Answer:...
Repeating Al-Fātiḥah Instead of Another Passage in Prayer
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: Does reading Sūrah Al-Fātiḥah again fulfill the wujūb (obligation) of dhamm al-sūrah (reciting a Qur’ānic passage)? Answer: بِسْمِ...
Prayer or Recitation to Acquire a Need?
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: What is more beneficial? Praying two nafl (optional prayers) for something to happen (good score on exam) or to recite Qur’ān (specifically Sūrah Yāsīn)? Answer:...
Prayer with Impurities Consistently Excreting
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: I am in Pakistan these days. My father is not well. He has a question because of his condition he needs to wear diapers which gets changed as and when required. He is extremely confused as to how to say his prayers...
Dilemma Regarding Friday Prayers
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: If someone leaves his hometown on Friday to his workplace, but his workplace does not have a Jumu’ah nearby (i.e: anywhere in the town he is working), what should he do? Note that his workplace is too far to...
2nd Jum’uah Prayer in the Same Masjid Post Covid-19 Restrictions
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: I have a question regarding 2nd Jumu’ah, post “Freedom Day”.We started to keep 2nd Jumu’ah at our masjid as a necessity because we did not have enough space in our...
The Status of Witr Prayer
Answered by Shaykh Yūsuf Badāt Question: If I do not pray witr, is my ʿEshā prayer still valid? Answer: In the Name of God, Most Kind, Most Merciful Thank you/ Jazāk Allāh Khayr for contacting Mathābah with your question. Witr...