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646 Questions

Is it permissible for an 18-year-old girl to wear acrylic nails while performing Wudhu and Salah?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Wearing acrylic nails in your nails prevents water of Wudhu or Ghusl from reaching to your real nails, hence invalidates your Wudhu and Ghusl. If you wear it after performing Wudhu or Ghusl then pray Salah, your Salah will be valid because your Wudhu or Ghusl were valid as you performed Wudhu or Ghusl with out wearing anything stops water from reaching to your nails.

Wassalam.
Is it permissible to glance at something else during prayer, like checking the time, without moving my head? I wanted to confirm which Rakat I was on. Does this invalidate my prayer, or is it still considered valid?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

The prayer will not be invalid but it is always better to keep our intention concentrated in our Prayers during performing Salah.

Wassalam.
What is the required distance between a man and a woman when they perform an obligatory prayer in the same room or place?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'āla

If there is no barrier between the man and woman, the woman (even if she is mahram) must stand behind the man, such that her place of sajdah be behind where the knees of the man would be when he does sujud.  

And Allah knows best
Is it permissible to say all Takbirs, the Samiallah, the Bihawlillah, and the Taslim aloud during Zuhr and Asr prayers? Additionally, can we recite the Bismillah aloud before Surah Fatiha and other Surahs in these prayers?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Saying all the Takbir and other sayings in Zuhr and Asr aloud is permissible. Reciting the AlHamd and the other Sura should not be aloud in Zuhr and Asr. Reciting Bismillah Arrahman Arraheem aloud is recommended in Zuhr and Asr, while it is obligatory in Maghrib, Isha and Farr prayers.

Wassalam.