Day: January 24, 2012

Q578: shortening salah when making qaza

Question: Asalamualaikum. Please can you help me. I have heard that you can pray qaza umrai namaz in a shortened version. – you pray the first 2 rakah normal, but in the 3rd/4th rakah you don’t pray surah fatiha. In ruku and sajda, you only pray “subhana rabbiyal azeem” once and “subhana rabbiya ala” once. […]

Q577: Wuzu in difficult conditions

Question: What is the Hanafi ruling of doing wudhu in difficult conditions – is it fardh, wajib, mustahab etc. Answer: Allamah Ibn Nujaym Misri writes in Al Ashbaah wan Nazaair page 70 : “Difficulties are of two types: 1) Difficulty from which ibaadaat are NOT normally free. Eg feeling cold during wudhu or ghusl, or […]