Prayer and Fasting at Work
- What is the ruling if it is impossible to perform ablution at the workplace due to the presence of men, which forces a woman to delay the Dhuhr prayer and combine it with the Asr prayer at home? Does this delay cause her to fall into sin?
- Is it permissible for a Muslim residing in Canada, who works long hours and travels between clients, to perform prayers in the car, either in congregation or individually? And is it permissible for him to perform tayammum instead of wudu due to the lack of a suitable place or water?
- Is it permissible for me—given that I work nights in a factory in France with long fasting hours—to fast according to the time in Mecca, Morocco, or any Arab country on workdays, especially since my husband does not face the same circumstances?
- Is it obligatory to inform one's parents about the husband's violent and illicit sexual practices, his failure to fulfill religious duties, and to seek divorce, or should one return to him to preserve the children?
- Which is better: attending a graduation ceremony that coincides with the time of Tarawih prayer, or performing the Tarawih prayer, knowing that this occasion is unrepeatable?
- Does the secretion of a dark yellow, viscous fluid from an oral inflammation, with a slightly salty taste, affect the validity of fasting and prayer, especially with its continuous and uninterrupted flow, the swallowing of saliva mixed with it, the use of household utensils, sneezing droplets, and the discharge of slight blood from it? And is this fluid considered impure, nullifying ablution and prayer, knowing that the doctor described it as a natural secretion, unlike blood and pus?
- What is the ruling on the fasting and prayer of one who suffers from excessive sexual desire that leads to touching the genitals and the emission of prostatic fluid (madhy) unintentionally? Do these actions invalidate his fasting and prayer? What is the way to stop sexual thoughts and excessive desire that do not cease even during worship, knowing that one continues to pray, supplicate, and recite the Quran? And is it forbidden to pleasure oneself in this chronic condition due to the inability to marry?
- Is it obligatory to leave a job where one can pray and wear the hijab, but where music is constantly present, or to continue in it until a better job becomes available?
- Is a woman's fast valid if a reddish-brown discharge appeared, which she thought was her menstrual period, and based on that, she did not pray Fajr, but then it later became clear that it was not menstrual blood, so she made up the Fajr prayer?
- Is a woman's ritual bath, fasting, and prayer valid after a sticky brown discharge, followed by a sticky white discharge mixed with blood for two days, five days after her purification, knowing that on the first day she saw a clear discharge and a yellowish-brown discharge? And is it permissible for her to make up these two days if it becomes obligatory for her to do so, considering she has already begun fasting the six days of Shawwal?
- Does sending supplications and posts via a WhatsApp group to relatives who have caused family problems and severed ties count as maintaining kinship ties?
- When is the time for the morning and evening adhkar? Is it permissible to recite them upon waking up for work, or should it be immediately after Fajr prayer? Are they restricted to the time of sunrise and sunset?
- Is it obligatory to fulfill a vow to donate half of the pharmacy's monthly profits, knowing that in some months it is impossible to do so due to other financial obligations?
- Is the repetition of invocations (dhikr) — such as "Subhan Allah wa bihamdihi" (Glory be to Allah and with His praise) — with the intention of attaining the associated virtues, without verbally mentioning these virtues, counted for the Muslim if he intends that in his heart?
- Is the Hadith that mentions Allah Almighty’s dislike for three things, among them fidgeting in prayer, authentic?
- What are the rulings concerning repeated oaths requiring expiation, and is it permissible to fast instead of feeding the poor, and what about oaths made in the heart or resulting from obsessive-compulsive disorder, and is expiation for an oath obligatory when repeating prayer due to obsessive thoughts, despite having sworn not to repeat it?
- Must I make up two years of prayers and two Ramadans of fasting due to practicing masturbation in my youth and being unaware of the obligation to perform ghusl from it or that it invalidates fasting, especially since I am not certain if semen was discharged?
- What is the ruling on the fast of one who had intercourse with his wife in a dream after Fajr prayer in Ramadan, and does that affect the fast?
- Is fasting on Wednesday instead of Thursday, due to travel circumstances and its suitability for work, considered an innovation (bid‘ah), given that one does not believe it has any special virtue over other days?
- How can persistent yellowish discharge connected to menstruation be distinguished from vaginal secretions, and is everything that tends toward a yellowish color considered yellowish discharge, even if it is white with a slight yellowish tinge, and does it necessitate abstaining from fasting and prayer if it is connected to menstruation?
- Is avoiding an aunt who is characterized by many actions that violate Islamic law (such as abandoning prayer and fasting, backbiting, envy, not holding as forbidden what God has forbidden, and poor upbringing of children) considered to be the severing of kinship ties mentioned in the Hadith, and how can children be protected from her and the mother's anger be avoided in this situation?
- Is it permissible to wear a sanitary pad all day and pray with it if a few drops (of urine) are discharged due to stress, and what should a person do while at work in this situation?
- What is the legal ruling on dealing with a brother who does not pray, disobeys his mother, and is suspected of drug abuse, given that the father refuses to use force and limits himself to advising? And what is incumbent upon the questioner towards her brother?
- What is the correct understanding of the hadith concerning tying the beard, and what is the ruling on tying it without superstitious reasons, taking into account what the questioner mentioned about avoiding harm at work and so forth?