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Prayers (22):

Q11: 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.

Q12: Can somebody who does not have correct Arabic pronounciation lead the congregational prayers? (for example, mixing up "saad" and "seen", the soft "ha" and the hard "ha" etc..)?

A: Yes, he is allowed to lead. Whoever can recite better is not permitted to pray behind him.

Q13: If a couple in the west are not officially married and has a child and they get married a year after. Can their child lead prayers since they where together but just not officially?

A: 1. If the parents were non Muslims when the drop of seed of the child was fertilized and if the relationship between them was legitimately recognized by their religion, then the child is considered from legitimate birth and can lead the prayers.
If the relationship was not religiously recognized in their religion, then he can not lead the prayers even after he embraces Islam afterwards.
2. If the parents were Muslims when the drop of seed is fertilized and if the relationship was governed by a religious contract (that is if they performed verbally the marriage contract even if the state did not recognized it), then the child is recognized as a son religiously and then can lead the prayer.
If there was no religious contract, then the child is not from legitimate birth and then can not lead the prayers.

Q14: In our hometown a few people believe that while reciting Tashahood, the requirement of Third Shahadat (Ali-un-Walliuallah) is compulsory, whereas a few believe it to be obligatory and they add up saying that without it the - namaaz –Prayer is baatil - void. Moreover a few believe that reciting it makes the namaz baatil. So, I as a representative, am putting forward this question to you as everyone out here is under your Taqleed. ?

A: Reciting the third Shahadat in the prayer is not lawful and makes the prayer void if it was done deliberately but if it was based on ignorance, then it does not nullify the prayer.
Our advice to the brothers is to deal with this issue with wisdom and calmness without making a problem or forming turbulence. At the same time, the religious verdict should be presented in a gradual, calm and convincing manner.
The submission to the "Wilayeh" of Imam Ali (peace be upon him) is a true submission without any doubt and the deeds are not accepted without believing in it. On the other hand, the prayer is a definite set kind of worship. No one is allowed to add to it anything that is not specified by the divine legislator to be added to it.
There are lots of true beliefs that a person must submit to them but we can not add them to the prayer as it is a worship that should not be performed the way we like but instead it should be performed based on the orders of the divine almighty legislator.

Q15: My question is related to TASHUD, Is Ali-un-Waliullah permissible to be recited?
If we testify in Kalima, Adhan, Aqmaat, every where possible would this not be a contradiction to our faith if were not to recite it in tashud?

A: It is unlawful to recite the third Shahada during the prayers since it is a human talk and not amongst the authorized set words that is allowed to be recited. Intentionally reciting it then makes the prayer void.
It is allowed to recite it during other worships like prayers on the dead or Adhan as they do not have the condition of not including human words.

Q16: I have two homes, one at city and other at my native village, the distance between them is about is 200km, my routine life is that, I live at city home and at the beginning or at the middle of the month I goes to my native village for some days stay there, where I performed full prayer's, the stay at other place is not fixed, some times I live few days, or return on the same day as required, my question is that during the month of Ramadan can I travel to my native village in fasting, because I want to celebrate the Eid Fiter at their, is it allowed to travel? I have a fear that if I missed the fasting it will be difficult for me to perform qazza fasting, please help me?

A: If the native village was your hometown where you used to live and you did not abundant it – you still consider it your home town – then your prayer must be offered in full and fasting can be offered as well.
If the native village was not your hometown or it was but you abundant it – not consider it as your hometown anymore – then you must offer shortened prayer and your fasting would be broken if you traveled before noon.

Q17: IS it ok if sometimes a bit of hair shows at the time of wajib salaat from the head scarf of a woman?

A: It is obligatory to cover the woman’s hair during prayers. If she noticed – after she finished the prayer - that some hair was not covered during the prayer, then it is valid.

Q18: Is it bidaa (new thing which is against religion) to say “la hola wa la quwata illa billa hil ali yel azeem.. etc” before azan or eqama?

A: It is not considered as so as long as the person does not intend from such words that they are part of the Adhan.

Q19: My sister is disabled these days. She can stand and sit on a chair but it not possible for her to bend down in prostration. How can she say her prayers?

A: If she can not prostrate perfectly, based on compulsory precaution, she can bend as much as she possibly can and place her forehead on what is permissible to prostrate on.

Q20: Can you please tell me why is it wajib for the eldest son to pray the qaza namaz of his father and not his mother. And why only the eldest, why not other sons?

A: The scholars' verdicts in this particular issue differ. Some of them believes in what you have mentioned. But His eminence says that all the male children are responsible for the make up prayer for their father and not the eldest son only.
We do not and can not know the reason behind the religious laws especially when it comes to worships.

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