Q. I asked a relative of mine to take to the recitation of the Qur’an, a part of it, everyday. Two weeks later when we met again, he said he had finished half of it. Later, when I found out that he had read a translation of the Qur’an and not the text, he told me that there was no use reading the text without understanding it, so he read the translation. Please guide us to the correct approach in this respect?
Q. “Yousuf has a moderate sized business. Two of his sons assist him full time in the business. Two daughters are married. Yousuf passed away. The estate is not wound up immediately. Yousuf’s two sons continued with the business. Finally after ten years it is decided that the estate should be wound up and each person given his/her respective share. In the meantime, since Yousuf demise the business which was worth at Rs. 1,000,000/- is now worth two million.
Q. “Secondly, I see Muslims who save money to buy houses, cars, vacation packages, send their children to the best colleges, and afford the most elaborate Valimahs yet when Allah sends his angel of death to retrieve their souls there is no money in their savings account to pay for their funeral expenses. In fact most of the Muslims I have spoken to seem to believe it is the duty of the Ummah to bury its brother or sister or child in Islam. Is this true? Are we not asked to save for our funeral expenses? ”
(Ibid)
Q. ” If I go for Umrah from here, (i.e. from Dammam), am I required to first offer Umra on my own behalf and then perform another Umrah on behalf of someone else, by going back to Meekat and wearing Ihram? Or is it not necessary that when I enter the Hudood-e-Haram I should first perform Umrah on my own behalf?”
A. This question is based on either of the two misconceptions generally found in the minds of the people who are not familiar with the Islamic precepts about Umrah.
Q. “There is no need to pay zakah on salary unless there is a saving left for a period of one year, whereas 10% of the farm produce is payable based on the current value of the produce irrespective of whether produce is sold or not. The Zakah in such circumstances is paid upfront whereas the salary earner has the liberty of choosing how to use his earnings without having to deduct a certain portion first for zakah. It means that if he chooses to spend all his earning then there is no need to pay zakah. Would it not be a dis-incentive to the farmer as compared with the salary earner? Perhaps you can clarify this further”.
(Ibid)
Q. “Can you tell precisely who is entitled to receive zakah? Can we spend the zakah money for the following purposes:
(a) In building a religious school which is a profit making concern for the operator?
(b) In buying a computer or an airconditioner for a religious or a social body?”
(Ibid)
FOLLOWING ARE OBLIGATORY IN TAYAMMUM
1) Niyyah;
2) Striking both the hands on the ground and then wiping the face with them;
3) Striking both the hands on the ground and wiping both the hands upto the elbows. [Bahishti Zewar]
THE MASNUN METHOD OF TAYAMMUM
Q. “Is it necessary for a women to wait for call of Azan before she can offer her prayers (salah) or can she perform her prayers as soon as the time for that particular prayer becomes due?”. (Ibid)
A. The ladies need not wait for the call of Azan. They can offer their prayers soon after they are sure that the time for a particular salah has arrived, no matter whether the Call of Azan has been pronounced in the Masjid or not. The Holy Qur’an says,
“Surely, the Salah for the Muslims is an obligation related with time.”
No religion is as broadminded and tolerant as Islam. The hearts of Muslims are very liberal but this does not mean they are deprived of their sense of honour. Their Haya is everything for them.
So it can never mean that we adopt the ways of the infidels and start celebrating their festivals. Today this deluge of following the west witnessed in our society is utterly damaging for our faith. It is our obligation to set dikes before this flood, build up our courage, and dishearten those who are helping these waves to cross all bounds.
Details of Hajj-e-Badal are lengthy which I have compiled in a separate treatise named Minhaj-ul-Khayr-fil-Hajj-i-’anil-Ghayr’. The same may be consulted in need. Its necessary selected precepts are however given here for the information of common people.
Rule Of Action
Suppose a person fell under the obligation of Fardh Hajj and he found the period in which Hajj is performed. But he did not perform Hajj for some reason or other. Later on, he had some excuse becuase of which he was unable to perform Hajj personally. For example he fell ill with such ailment as he had no hope of recovery. He became blind or crippled or he was too weak to undertake a journey owing to old age. Now it is Fardh on him to depute someone to perform Hajj on his behalf or to make a will to the effect that Hajj-e-Badal may be arranged to be performed on his behalf from his funds after his death.
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