Fatwas Archive

Question: If a traveler led a four-rakʿah prayer and forgot to shorten it, then remembered after the prayer while still on his journey, what is required of him?

Question: A man traveled a distance at which prayer may be shortened, but he forgot and prayed in full, serving as imam. He then returned to his home and, after returning, remembered that he should have shortened. What is required...

Question: If a traveler resolves to reside ten days in a place, but makes an exception in that resolve, saying: “Unless I get bored, or some need arises,” does he shorten or complete the prayers?

Question: Is it better for a traveler to combine two prayers, or to perform each at its appointed time (without combining)?

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?