Fatwas Archive

Question: Is one rewarded who “reads” the Qur’an in his heart without his tongue, or who remembers Allah Most High inwardlywithout voicing it—i.e., running the words of the Qur’an or of dhikr across his heart without moving his tongue?

Question: Does a person sin by not reading the Qur’an, though able to read it—or by reading it only in the month of Ramadan?

Question: May a driver—and likewise a passenger—perform nafl prayers in a car, gesturing for bowing and prostration?

Question: What do you say about what is reported of some righteous people—that they might pray one thousand rakʿahs in a single night?

Question: It is related from the Prophet (may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace) regarding the virtue of remaining seated in one’s place of prayer after Fajr until sunrise that it is like a ḥajj, or...

Question: If I have prayed ʿAṣr in congregation and then someone who has not yet prayed ʿAṣr comes and asks me to pray it with him, is itdisliked for me to pray with him because of the report that nafl...

Question: Are the regular sunnahs attached to the obligatory prayers recommended in travel and when two prayers are combined?

Question: It is authentically reported that the Prophet (may Allah bless him and family and grant them peace) said to ʿAlī (peace be upon him): “The two rakʿahs after Maghrib—[do not omit them] in travel or at home …,” etc....

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...