Q65: I find it impossible to repay my KAZA fasts and prayers...

Q65: I find it impossible to repay my KAZA fasts and prayers due to lack of time and some personal reasons. Any other ways to repay them back? A. No personal reason can ever justify neglecting the Qaza of prayers; and no so-called "lack of time" can save you from the Qaza of fasts. If you have time to sleep and eat you have enough time to pray your Namaz; and if you have time to rest even one or two days in a month you have enough time to fast the Qaza.

Such lame excuses will serve no purpose on the Day of Judgement. Q66: What happens when you combine all the prayers of the week and you pray them all on one day? A. It is the greatest sin not to pray in time. According to the Hadith of the Holy Prophet the prayer is the boundry line between Islam and Kufr. If someone leaves one of his prayers, he commits one of the greatest sins. Then what will be his position if he leaves the prayers of one complete day?

And I do not find words to express the horror of leaving the prayers of whole week. Of course, if someone has committed this sin, then he MUST pray those prayers in Qadha, as soon as possible. Q67: Maghrib prayer time ends at midnight. How can we know the exact midnight? A.

The time of Maghrib begins after sunset when the reddish colour at East vanishes; and ends when only four Rik'ats' time remains to exact midnight, because the four Rik'ats' time just before exact mid-night is Isha's reserved time, and if someone has not prayed Maghrib by then, it becomes Qaza; he should pray Isha in that 4 Rik'ats' time.

If any person did not pray Maghrib and Isha in time, owing to some justifiable reason, he should pray both prayers before Subh-e-Sadique without niyyat of 'Ada' or 'Qaza'. Now coming to your question about mid-night. Mid-night is the exact half between sunset and sunrise, according to the Fatwa of Agha-e-Khoui. Q68: Ghusl of Mass-e-Mayyit becomes wajib after touching a dead body.

Now if some-one is a doctor or nurse, and he/she has to touch dead-bodies every now andthen,shouldhe/shedoGhuslaftereverycontact? Roshanali M. M. Dewji, Essex (U.K.) A. Ghusl of Mass-e-Mayyit becomes wajib, if one touches the dead body of a human being after it has become cold (and, in case of a Muslim's dead body, after being cold and before completion of Ghusl-e-Meyyit).

If a Doctor or Nurse touches a dead body (as mentioned above), he/she may do one Ghusl-e- Masse-Mayyit, in the afternoon to enable him to pray Zuhr and Asr, and shortly afterwards, Maghrib and Isha.