Questioner: We are from those who love [you] and we want to teach The Prophet’s Prayer Described in Masjid Umar Shaikh: Alright Questioner: Abu Layl said to see the opinion of the Shaikh [about teaching it]? Shaikh: The opinion of the Shaikh is that if you are a Haafidh (memorizer) of The Prophet’s Prayer Described by heart, first, and then…
Where Does One Look in Prayer? – Shaikh Hasan bin Muhammad Ba Shu’aib and Shaikh Muhammad bin Hizaa
Shaikh Hasan bin Muhammad Ba Shu’aib [from the people of Knowledge from Hadramout] wrote in his book At-Tasheel wal-Eedaah Li Kafiyyatis-Salah: “Where does the one praying look during his prayer? The opinion of the majority of the Scholars is the recommendation of looking at the place of prostration in all the prayer, except for the position of Tashahhud. He looks…
The Ruling on Reciting the Quran from the Cell Phone – Shaikh Salih al-Fawzaan
Question: What is the ruling on reading the Quran on the cell phone? Answer: “There is no preventative for that. You can recite the Quran from the cellphone, from the Mushaf, and from your memory. There is no preventative for that” [https://www.alfawzan.af.org.sa/ar/node/16805] Translated by Faisal bin Abdul Qaadir bin Hassan Abu Sulaymaan
The Ruling on Buying and Selling Currencies
Many of our Scholars have permitted buying and selling currencies with certain conditions. Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy upon him) was asked: Question: May Allah be good to you. The questioner Muhammad Abdullah says: What is the ruling on trading in currencies? Shaikh: In? Presenter: Currencies Shaikh: There is no harm in trading in currencies. However, it is…
Will a Person Be Rewarded For Loving What the Prophet (ﷺ) Loved? – Shaikh Abdul-Muhsin al-‘Abbaad
Question: Is this Legislated love which it is Sunnah to follow as comes in the Hadith: “The most beloved clothing to him (ﷺ) was the Qamees“? Is a person rewarded for this action? Answer: “No doubt, it is necessary for a Muslim to love whatever was beloved to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). As it comes from Anas (may Allah…
The Ruling on Having Partisanship Towards a Scholar – Shaikh al-Albani
Questioner: We have with us some youth at the beginner level. They find comfort, for example, with one Scholar, and a second group finds comfort with… Shaikh: Another? Questioner: with Another. Then the affairs progressed until parties formed. That is: each group has partisanship towards this Scholar. Until they began to have hostility between each other and began not sitting…
The Ruling on Announcing Funeral Prayers Using Text Messages and the Likes – Shaikh Abdul-Aziz Ala Shaikh
Question: The questioner says :It has come in the fatwa of the Permanent Committee (no. 6516) the permissibility of calling relatives, friends, and neighbors to come pray upon a person if he dies. So they can supplicate for him, follow his funeral, and assist in burying him because the Prophet (ﷺ) informed the Companions of the death of an-Najaashi (may Allah…
Is it Sunnah to Face the Qiblah When Sleeping? Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen
Question: Is it from the Sunan of the Prophet (ﷺ) that he faced the Qiblah when he was sleeping or during his sleep? Has [an evidence] been reported that proves that and where should the feet be when facing the Qiblah? Answer: “I do not know that facing the Qiblah when sleeping is Sunnah. However, there is the well-known Hadith:…
The Ruling on Assisting in Building a Masjid in Which There will be Evil in it – Shaikh Salih al-Fawzaan
Question: May Allah be good to you, O companion of Virtue. This question is via the internet. He says: We are Muslims from America. Is it allowed to assist in building a masjid knowing that the administrators are not upright? And there will be free mixing in this masjid due to what we know of them [i.e. the administrators]. Answer:…
The Extent of Obeying the Parents – Shaikh Salih al-Fawzaan
Question: To what extent is obedience to the parents and is it obligatory in every situation? Answer: “Obedience to the parents is in other than the disobedience of Allah. If they order with disobedience [to Allah], then there is no obedience to the creation in the disobedience of Allah: وَإِنْ جَاهَدَاكَ لِتُشْرِكَ بِي مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ فَلا تُطِعْهُمَا…