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Prayers (20):

Q1: What is the method to determine the best time for fajr prayer?

A: it is better to perform the prayer at the first time one realizes time of down.

Q2: What breaks the prayer? What are the rules? And why do those specific acts break the prayer?

A: What breaks the prayers:
A. Urinating and releasing wind or feces.
B. Turning the body fully away from the Kiblah.
C. Actions that interfere with the prayers in the view point of religious people like eating or drinking.
D. Deliberate talking.
E. Deliberate laughing.
F. Putting one hand in top of the other at the middle of the body if the praying person considers this as part of the prayer.
G. Deliberate saying the word "Aameen" after finishing recitation of the fatiha.
The said actions were proven by religious evidences to nullify the prayer and we should submit to them even if we did not know the wisdom behind them.

Q3: Is it better for a woman to pray NAMAZ (Prayers) at the MASJID (Mosque) or at her house?

A: The women's prayer at home is better than her prayer at the mosque.

Q4: During the mugrub prayer when we are at first rakat suddenly electricity goes off and we are enable to see the sujjdiga or anything else,we had finished the prayer in the dark and after the salam someone has light the candle, my question is that shall I or we offer again the said prayer? is it right to offer the prayer in dark?

A: It is lawful to pray in the dark if you were prostrating on " The sujjdah" or whatever is lawful to prostrate on. If you did not, then you should repeat the prayer based on compulsory precaution.

Q5: We have a problem to gather at the time of Friday Prayer. Is it possible that the speech would be late for half an hour? in that case the maximum number of people will attend to the speech.

A: It is not allowed to delay it after the beginning of the prayer time based on compulsory precaution.

Q6: If a person is unaware that after urinating and wiping it with dry material, they are still suppose to wash their private part with water, are they tahir? what if they were sunnis in the beginning and when converted to shiasm they find out they suppose to wash it, do they have to repeat all prayers as Qada?

A: The prayer is not void if the person was unaware of the impurity – Nejasah in the body or the clothes.

Q7: Can we offer Namaaz eide Ghadeer - the prayers of Eid ghadeer in a congrgational way?

A: No, You can not offer it in congregational way.

Q8: Person is an open or an exposed liar. The person has lied to me and also to public in general. Please let me know
1. If we can pray behind such a person(let him lead prayers)?
2. Should we listen to his majalis even after we know that he is an open liar?

A: It is unlawful to pray behind an unjust person. However, it is allowed to listen to his speeches unless it leads to other prohibition.

Q9: Can I follow a prayer leader, if I do not know that he is just (Adil)?

A: The prayer behind a person whose justice is not proven is void.

Q10: Who is a just person (Adil)?

A: A just person is a person who keeps away from sins and if s/he did then would repent and does not insist on committing the sin.

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