Al-Sayyid Al-Allamah Al-Hujjah Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah Awad al-Mu’ayyidi May Allah preserve him

Question: A Muslim may desire to attain khushūʿ in prayer yet cannot achieve it. How can he obtain it? What brings it about?

Question: Is it permissible for a worshiper to take the muṣḥaf in his hand while in prayer and read from the Qur’an?

Question: Erecting the right foot and spreading the left is obligatory in the school; is it likewise obligatory in supererogatory prayers? If so, can an obligatory element be part of a nafl?

Question: Is the prayer valid for someone who cannot properly distinguish between ḍād and ẓāʾ, pronouncing ḍād from the point of articulation of ẓāʾ in “al-maghdūbi ʿalayhim wa-lā ḍ-ḍāllīn” [al-Fātiḥah]—bearing in mind that “there is no prayer without the Opening...

Question: Must Qur’anic recitation in prayer be performed in the same style as that used by professional Qur’an reciters and on the radio?

Question: A man enters a congregational prayer with intention and takbīr, then becomes absent-minded during the prayer. When he regains his attention, he has forgotten which prayer he is in—Is it ʿIshāʾ, Maghrib, or Fajr? A pillar or two (or...

Question: A man performs the five daily prayers and maintains them, and he prays in congregation as an act of religion and worship of Allah, with no worldly taint in his intention. Then he is chosen to lead the prayer,...

Question: Which is superior—the imām or the mu’adhdhin? In other words, is imāmah better, or the adhān?

One may ask: Which is better, to take the rukhsah or the ʿazīmah?

Question: In some mosques and lands, people pray Maghrib at sunset before a night star appears and before darkness. Some therefore doubt praying behind them for ʿIshāʾ and other prayers and impugn the validity of their prayers. What is correct...