Q. In responce
to my question, you have replied in the Albalagh International-November
1991 issue - that I can adjust the interest money received earlier against
the loss of my principal amounts in BCCI, your reply, I assume, is based
on the assumption that I want to adjust the interest received earlier
"FROM BCCI" against the expected loss of principal amount deposited
with BCCI. Suppose the interest was not received from BCCI or only partly
received from BCCI. Now the question is that can I adjust such interest
amount against the loss of principal in BCCI?.
(M. S. Desai, Saudi Arabia)
A. As I have mentioned earlier whatever amount you have received
or you axpect to receive from BCCI, in whatever name it may be, you can
take it as the part recovery of your principal, but it should be kept
in mind that your total receipts from the bank should not exceed, in any
case, the amount you have actually deposited in the bank. Therefore, if
the bank agr- ees, at a later stage, to pay you more, your claim should
be confined to the extent of the arrears of your principal deposit only
without any excess thereon.
Q. As you know,
in Saudi Arabia, Maghrib Prayers are usually offered ten minutes after
the call for prayers. I have recently seen one Hadith which can be rendered
into english as "No one should sit in the Mosque until he has offered
two rakah." Agreed by all. Also, I have heard a Hadith which can
be rendered into english as "Supplication between the Azan and the
call for the prayers is always answered."
Does that mean that we should or we can offer two rakah prayer after the
call for the Maghrib prayer but before the con- gregation starts and suplicate?
(Ibid)
A. The Holy Prophet (Sallaho Alaihai Wasallam) has emphasized in
a number of AHadith that the Maghrib prayer should be offered as soon
after the sunset as possible. On this basis the Hanafi jurists are of
the view that the Maghrib prayer should be offered immediately after adhan
without any intervening prayer as nafl. However, other jurists are of
the opinion that it is advisable to offer two rakat as nafl before the
Maghrib prayer.
The present practice in Makkah and Madinah is based on this latter view.
Now, when the gap of about ten minutes is, in any case, available for
every person who prays in the haram, one can avail of this opportunity
by praying two rakats before the Jummah, and there is no bar against it
in Shariah, even in the Hanafi school, because they preferto avoid any
nafl before the Maghrib prayer only to refrain from delaying the obligatory
prayer. But when the obligatory prayer is bound to be delayed, according
to the current practice in haram, pointless, to avoid the nafl prayer,
So one can offer nafl before maghrib while praying in haram.
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