Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question A class at my masjid on the basics of purity and prayer has left me with far more doubts than I had before, and although I am trying to use the Hanafi rule that certainty is not lifted by doubt, I have ended up back where I was before […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question I began the Fajr sunna at 4:34 and later found the time for Fajr was 4:36, so I know that the sunna was not valid. I prayed the obligatory Fajr in its time, and now sunrise and the Dhuhr time have both passed. Do I have to make up […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question I am traveling 2,800 kilometers over seventeen days, spending eight days in one town and then moving 47 kilometers to a second town for nine days, so neither stay reaches fifteen days. May I pray the traveler’s prayer throughout? Answer You pray the traveler’s prayer for all seventeen days. […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question Is the obligatory (fard) and minimum recitation for a prayer to be valid — in all prayers, whether fard, wajib, such as witr, sunna, or nafl — only reciting the first verse of Surat al-Fatiha, or one short verse of any surah, in all rakats? Does the same apply […]