Ladies
and Salaatul Jamaat QUESTION: Asalaamu
Alaikum, I understand that you only need to people to
pray in a congregation - the
Imam and one other. My question is whether it
is sufficient if the follower
is a woman? So can there be a congregation if
the man is the Imam and the
follower is a woman. (ex: can a husband and wife
pray in congregation?) Thank you. ANSWER:
Salaamun 'alaykum, In a congregation
of two people, it is o.k. for the Imam to be a man and
the ma'mum
(follower)
to be a woman. Liyakatali Takim | Ladies
joining Salaatul Jumu'ah Question: I
would like to know the rulings of Ayatullah Khui and Ayatullah
Seestani on
the participation of ladies in the Jumaa prayers. I would
appreciate if this
question could be answered by Mullah Asghar. Answer:
In the event when attending Namaze Jummah becomes obligatory,
women are
among those exempted. So participation
of the ladies would be voluntary. And if they pray Jumu'ah,
then it will not
be necessary for them to pray Zuhr. Asgharali M.M. Jaffer
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Lapsed
Prayers Question: I embraced
Islam 12 years ago, but haven't always been as serious about
namaz as I should
have. Particularly at times when I was under a lot of
pressure, like after
my children were born, I let several prayers slide for
a long time. Now that
I am regular in my namaz, I want to make up all the
prayers I missed, but
my problem is that there is no way to calculate how
many there are. I know
I am supposed to make them up in the order they were
missed, and in the form
they were missed ( for example, shortened prayers of
the traveller ), but
I can't even guess at that. Now, clearly, I want to
make them up as quickly as possible, but it just
isn't going to be possible
for me to set aside great parts of the day to do
this. I have two small children
and a very demanding husband, and I am
under a lot of pressure all the time.
However, when I get up for Fajr, I
can usually count on some time alone, so
I should be able to set up a
routine where I make up some of the prayers every
day. Also, I don't want to rush through them, meaninglessly,
so I want to know
how I can pray in the most minimal way possible. Just how
much can I leave
out and still have the namaz be valid? I wouldn't ask that
if I only had a
few to make up; I'm really not trying to be lazy. I
follow the taqlid of Ayatullah Seestani. Answer:
Make the best estimation possible on your lapsed
prayers and
then discharge this obligation. It is noble of you to acknowledge
your past error and a commitment not to repeat the same. Indeed,
Allah
(s.w.t.) is most Forgiving and Merciful: "Say: O my servants!
who have
acted extravagantly against their own souls, do not despair
of the mercy of
Allah; surely Allah forgives the faults altogether;
surely He is the Forgiving,
the Merciful." (Qur'an, 39:53) The obligatory recitation
parts of the prayer are as follows: The first takbir
(Allahu Akbar), two suras (you can recite the
shortest surah from the Qur'an
[Kawthar] after surah al-hamd), in the
ruku say "subhan-al-laah"
three times, in prostration the same. The
tashahud is obligatory, however,
only one out of the last two salaams
is mandatory. Qunut is not obligatory.
For the third and fourth
rakat, the tasbihat-ul-arba'ah needs to be recited
three times. The
other recitations that we normally recite are not compulsory.
wa bi-l-laahi-t-tawfiq, Hamid
Mavani |
Laughing
in front of Non Mahram QUESTION: Is
it haram for a women to laugh or even smile in front of namahram men? ANSWER:
It is Haraam for a man or woman to do anything in front
of a
namahram that could lead to any thoughts or actions of lust.
If the
smiling or laughing, in any manner, could lead the namahram
to think in a
lustful manner, then it becomes Haraam. Wassalaam, Mustafa
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