Answered by Ustadh Abdullah Anik Misra Question: As salaamu ‘alaikum, I have a book by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani detailing the fard, wajib and sunna actions of prayer and have glanced through it but I often find myself thinking that I haven’t performed a recommended action of the prayer and repeat it. Sometimes praying the 4-cycle […]
Answered by Shaykh Faraz A. Khan Question: I hope you are doing well. I have a question regarding the issue of balance transfers at 0% APR which are offered by some credit card companies in order to delay payments for up to 12 months. This is usually associated with a balance transfer fee of 3% […]
Answered by Shaykh Faraz A. Khan Question Lately, Isha prayers have been starting really late, for example at 11 pm and Fajr is at around 4 am. As I go to school, I have to wake up at 6.30 am and this means I won’t get much sleep. I also have health problems when I […]
Answered by Shaykh Faraz A. Khan Question: I am currently a volunteer teacher at an Islamic Sunday School. We teach the various subjects, such as ‘Aqeedah, Fiqh, Adab, Qur’anic Recitation, etc. For the fiqh aspect, most especially Salah, how do we go about explaining the to the children (8-13) about the different Mathhabs and which […]
Answered by Shaykh Faraz A. Khan Question: What would be the ruling for praying behind someone who – 1) Does not have a beard 2) Is not wearing a prayer cap 3) Is not dressed at his best (i.e. clothes only covering awrah) 4) With parts of clothes folded e.g. folding the sleeves, folding trousers […]
Answered by Shaykh Faraz A. Khan Question: I wanted to inquire about treatment of food which have been expired or is no good in the light of Quran and Sunnah. I.E it was always emphasized that not a piece of Rice or Bread i.e no matter what the condition of it should go to waste, […]
Answered by Shaykh Faraz A. Khan Question: I heard a commentary of a hadith from a book (Fadail Amaal I think) according to which the punishment of missing a single prayer intentionally (even if made up later) is Hell for some very long period (one ‘haqb’ which through some calculations came to the order 20 […]
Answered by Shaykh Faraz A. Khan Question: Is it permissible for a woman to get a breast reduction surgery? If she’s having back problems due to the large size of her breast and her small body frame? Answer: Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah, I pray this finds you in the best of health and states. Contemporary […]
Answered by Shaykh Faraz A. Khan Question: (1) One of my family properties we have on rent is on mortgage. So is the rent from the mortgaged house classified as haram income? We do not consume interest money from the bank because we told the bank not to give us interest money. But i know […]
Answered by Shaykh Faraz A. Khan Question: Insurance itself is haram, but can you please explain a situation like this: Let’s say someone pays 100 pounds a month towards life insurance. At the end of one year – that will equal 1200 pounds total paid. If the person would like to stop payments, he would […]
