Fatwas Archive

Question: If the Friday preacher errs in his sermon—such as mentioning a report about people “coming out of the Fire”—and he does not yet know that this is false, because he was raised outside Yemen, then he returns to Yemen...

Question: What is the stronger view regarding the obligation of Jumuʿah during a time of intermission?

Question: If a person misses the two rakʿahs of Fajr because the congregation has already begun, should he perform them after the Fajr prayer? And if he does, is that performance or make-up?

Question: If a deceased person stipulated in a will twenty expiations for prayer, what is the amount of that expiation?

Someone asked me about a man who grew up among ignorant people who paid no attention to the laws of Islam. From the time he reached the age of legal responsibility he would leave the prayer; he would not fast...

Question: Do thinking and obsessive thoughts about worldly matters diminish the prayer? Is the prayer complete despite them? And if we are negligent and falling short, what is our duty regarding our prayer?

Question: What is the state of a legally responsible person who keeps up the five prayers, but when he enters the prayer, obsessive thoughts and inner talk take hold of him, so he leaves the prayer as he entered it,...

Question: Is the prayer of Ẓuhr valid behind an imām praying ʿAṣr—and likewise the reverse?

Question: Is the prayer valid behind an imām who folds his hands (overlapping the arms in standing) and says “āmīn,” or not?

Question: If a man or woman has artificial teeth fitted, is their purification deficient, such that they may only lead someone like themselves?