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Dr. Hatem Al-Haj
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Professor of Fiqh at Shari`ah Academy of America
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On Ramadan Issues
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Monday,Sep 7 ,2009
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Makkah
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From... 11:30...To...13:00
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Brothers and sisters, the session has already started. You can submit your questions. Please, make your questions short and clear so as to help us answer all your questions.
Yours,
Islam Online Fatwa Editing Desk.
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Hasan
- United States
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Dear Sheikh, as-salamu `alaykum
Is it permissible to accept invitation to have iftar in a Ja`fari shei`i association? I attended this iftar with them and prayed Maghrib and `Ishaa' behind a shi`i Imam. Is my Prayer acceptable? They made few differences in adhan. They also put something (a stone)
in front of them while offering Prayer. Also, in the Salah itself they have few differences. Please let me if my Prayer is valid?
Jazakum Allahu khairan.
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
The Prayer behind an imam from a different sect ýdepends on whether his innovation amounts to disbelief. ýFor the Shi'a, this is still applicable. It is rather difficult to ýmake a blanket statement about them due to the major ýdifferences between them, even within the same sub-sect. ýWhosoever of them believes the Quran was altered, or all ýthe companions but a few apostatized, or says about the ýmother of the believers, 'Aishah that which Allah has ýdeclared her innocent of, or exaggerates in the position of ýtheir imams (which were righteous descendents of the ýprophet) and elevate them to a position comparable to or ýabove the prophets is not a ýMuslim, and thus the Prayer behind him would be invalid. ýIf one doesn't have any innovation that amounts to ýdisbelief, then the Prayer behind them would be valid, ýthough disliked because they have rulings other than what ýwe have, and their form of Prayer is different from ours. ýThat difference is not like the difference between the sunni ýmadhahib, which acknowledge the same sources, but differ ýon the interpretation. ý
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Shady
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Ramadan is running. How can we “Muslims” especially those who missed a lot of good deeds in the first half of Ramadan benefit from the rest of days remaining in this blessed month?
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
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Allah's gates are never closed in the face ýof His servant, so, start the race with your potential, and defy your weakness ýand incompetence. Ensure that the ýreward of fasting is not wasted by ýengagement in sin and disobedience, for ýpreserving the capital takes precedence ýover making a profit.ý
You still have the last ten days ahead of ýyou, which include the night of decree ýý(al-Qadr), so don't miss it.
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Seek a good company, and if you can ýmake I`tikaaf, don't miss the chance to do ýso.ý
Do all of this with sincere devotion, for ýthat will be the foremost determining ýfactor of the value of your deeds.ý
Allah knows best
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Mu'az
- Malaysia
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Student
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In my country most masjids do 20 raka`at taraweeh.
However most muslims here who pray with imams who do 20 rakaat only did 8 (stopped there), then the rest continue to pray with the imam.
Is this permissible in Islam? As I heard by someone that this is considered bid`ah.
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
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This is a matter of controversy, not an ýissue of bid`ah vs. sunnah. It seems from ýthe textual proofs that the prophet as ýreported from 'Aisha in the authentic ýcollections never exceeded eleven rak`ats. ýHowever, the 20 rak`ats have been a ýpopular practice in the ummah, and it is ýattributed to Omar (Allah be pleased with ýhim) albeit with a controversial ýauthenticity. The Prophet said, however, ýthat the "Night prayers should be done in ýpairs, and if you fear that the time of Fajr ýwill come, make Witr even with one ýrak`at." This hadeeth doesn't put a ceiling ýon the number of rak`ats one may pray. ýThe advice in such cases is to follow the ýimam of the masjid and its main ýcongregation. ý
Allah Almighty knows best.
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For a women, must she both see a wet dream AND discharge or just one to perform ghusl? which one?
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
If she sees wetness in her clothes that is different from the regular vaginal discharge, then she needs to make ghusl. The other two indications for ghusl would be intercourse and menstruation and post-partum bleeding.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Alia
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I have been working continuously for four and a half years and my parents take all my money even though they are not in need of it. I have bought a car for my father, furnished almost all the house and so many other things, including help in my sister's education fees. Above all that I pay regular rent and living expenses to them like any stranger, and I can not feel at ease at home because they always are fighting about money matters. I can't do most of the things I want because they always argue if I do something different from what they want. Up to this date I am unable to save any money or get married because they refuse all my suitors. I feel this is injustice. My new job that I am currently working in is ready to offer me a free accommodation that is near to work and fully paid. However my parents threaten that if I leave the house they will denounce me and never talk to me again. I have tried asking them not to pay anymore rent or money but they disagreed. I am getting old and I need to save some money for the future and try to live a peaceful life. If I moved out would I be doing a bad deed because my parents will not talk to me again?
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
I advise you to not move out and wait until you move ýto your husband's home. As for them refusing all suitors, if ýthat is true and those suitors are compatible, then their ýguardianship shall be severed by a Muslim judge or an imam ýthat is reputable and recognized as a community leader. ýThe parents may take of their children's money what they ýneed. They may not take beyond their needs and may not ýtake from one child to give the other. You need to see an ýarbitrator to solve those problems. ý
Allah Almighty knows best.
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sister
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What is the ruling on saying Surat al Fatiha in congregational Prayer?
What is the ruling on a woman who has a lot of waswasa after each Prayer that she lost her wudu because of pure vaginal discharge? She often repeats her Prayer after repeating wudu. She also sometimes does actually see the discharge. Must she check after each prayer?
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
As for the recitation of al-Fatihah for the congregation Praying behind an imam, this issue is very controversial. Ash-Shafe`i and al-Bukhari chose that they must recite al-Fatihah. This seems to be stronger to me.
As for the obsessions about the vaginal discharges, the sister should completely ignore them because they neither invalidate her wudu' nor are they impure. That is according to the stronger position.
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Allah Almighty knows best.
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Shahzod
- United States
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As-Salamu `Alaykum. I swore to Allah that I am not going to smoke cig. again but after that I smoked a lot of times. But now I am worried about what I have done. I know when you broke oath you have to feed 10 people but I don't know how many times I have broken. Once I asked Muslim brother about this, he said it is not an oath he said it is istighfar. But I just want to make sure again if it is an oath or istighfar? If it is counted as an oath, then how I do the Kaffarah?
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
This would make a kaffarah required, but only one ýkaffarah is due upon you according to the stronger position, ýsince they overlap.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Halima
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As-salamu alaikom. For a wife who doesn't have breasts or she have a plane chest, is it permissible for her to make a surgery in order to have them? It's mainly to have the husband satisfied and to maintain a good sexual relation, in order to prevent his husband to be disappointed or to look at other women. Thanks.
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
If your breasts are clearly, as you stated, outside the ýnormal range, then the surgery would be permissible to fix ýa defect. ý
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Mohamed
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As-Salamu `Alaikum wa Rahmatu Allah.
Respected Sheikhs, I was offering prayer behind an Imam. Then, suddenly the Imam fell dead while offering Sujud (prostration in the Prayer). What should we were to do? Would we complete the prayer individually or assign one of us to lead us in place of him? Answer me, may Allah reward you good!
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
It is better to assign one to lead the prayer as Omar did ýwhen he was stabbed. It is to be mentioned here that some ýone should have interrupted the prayer to rescue him or call the ýambulance, etc. ý
Allah Almighty knows best.
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M. Ramadan
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Assalamu Alaikum, I have been doing Taraweeh in my local mosque and the Imam does a lengthy du`a exactly after 20 Rak`ah just before praying witr. Is this a Bid`ah? The other thing is that the Imam prays witr like Maghrib so should I follow the Imam in praying or perform my own witr individually?
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
As for the long qunoot, the qunoot in witr is established. However, ýthey disagree over doing it jahran (aloud) in the taraweeh. The ýShafe'ees and Hanbalis allow this; some throughout the ýmonth, and some during the latter half, and that is what has ýbeen authentically reported from the righteous ýpredecessors. ý
The supplication in this qunoot is often protracted by ýthe imams, and they tend to excel in beautifying their ývoices with it and they pay too much attention to the ýrhymes and they make their own supplications, which are ýnot infrequently mistaken. The advice to the imams is to ýlimit themselves to the reported supplications in the Qur'an ýand Sunnah to avoid making mistakes. If they needed to ýuse other supplications, they should not exaggerate and it ýmay be warranted to show them to a scholar first.
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As for you, I would encourage you to stay with the ýcongregation to get the reward of one who prays with the ýimam until he ends the prayer, which will earn you the ýreward of praying the entire night as indicated by the ýMessenger of Allah (blessings and peace be upon him).ý
As for the witr, imam Ibn taymeah said that there are ýthree forms in which it is done by the Muslims, in ýaccordance with the various positions of the followed ýimams: 1- three rak’ahs, like ýMaghrib, as done by the ýHanafis.ý ý2 –One rak’ah done after Shaf'.ý ý3 – Three with ýone tashahhud at the end. He indicated that the second and ýthird are correct, but went on to say that if the ýcongregation wants it done like Maghrib, the imam may ýyield for the conciliation of hearts, and since this is a ýposition of a great and followed imam. ý
This is an indication of the value of conciliation and ýunity. May Allah bestow His mercy on his soul. ý
Allah Almighty knows best.
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Suhad
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As-salamu alaikom. I know a person who was getting divorced and had two weeks left until it was over but ended up meeting another man and committed zina with him, after she was divorced she found out she was pregnant from the man she committed zina with, can she marry this man and what should she do to rectify this?
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
She should repent to Allah, ýbecause she committed adultery, which is a horrendous ýenormity.ý
I think you mean she had two weeks for her waiting ýperiod to end. In this case, her waiting period from the first man (the ýhusband), will not end until she gives birth. Afterwards, if ýshe and the fornicator repented, they may marry one ýanother.
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If the husband is certain the child is not his, he should ýdecline its paternity. If he didn't, then it is his since it was ýconceived while she was still a wife. (A woman in the ýperiod takes the rulings of the wife in most regards)ý.
Allah Almighty knows best.
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nura
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As the first wife, should I accept my husband's proposal for a 2nd wife?
I recently got married in January. I live in Pakistan (awaiting my visa to join my husband). My husband lives in America. I recently found out he has been having an affair for the last year (through our engagement and after we were married) with an American. In addition to the affair, the American girl is pregnant with his child. The baby is due in March 2010. I have decided to stay with my husband and work through this, but he recently proposed that he take this American as a 2nd wife, so he can make the relationship halal. He said the decision is mine. If I tell him no, he will not have anything to do with the child, which even though unborn, he admits the child is indeed his.
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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Sister, I do understand your pain. However, don't you ýthink that it is somewhat strange that you would accept to ýwork through the first scenario, and would feel worse ýwhen he attempts to marry?
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I would advise you to look at the person's piety and ýrighteousness, and whether he will be dutiful to his lord ýand family. If you think he repented from that sinful ýrelationship, then you may help him strengthen his iman ýand rectify his affairs. If you think, he didn't change, and ýthe marriage proposal was not truly for the sake of Allah, ýthen, to your best ability, you should not proceed with this ýmarriage.ý
As for him, he shouldn't marry that woman unless she ýalso repented. If he marries her before she repents for the ýchild, which is not legally his, he will be only adding more ýcomplexity to his dilemma. ý
Allah Almighty knows best.
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
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Yours,
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