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    Question ID: 36999Country: Pakistan

    Title: Is it permissible to offer prayer in the dark room, I mean to say when there is no light in the room

    Question: (1) Is it permissible to offer prayer in the dark room, I mean to say when there is no light in the room? (2) Can a woman offer prayer at a place that is open to the sky (courtyard)?

    Answer ID: 36999

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 270/210/B=1433) (1) Yes, it is right to offer salah in a dark room. (2) It is right for a woman to offer salah under open sky (courtyard). However it is better for her to offer salah inside closed room. It carries more reward.

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India