Salaam. Ok heres one for those suffering from OCD and waswasa..... How much repition of verses or repition in the recitation in atahiyat or recitation in any Rukn in general exempt one from Sajda Sawh and even nullifying the Salah altogether ( infact it does)
ma sha Allah beneficial thread. will contribute for the benefit of others: Question: If someone is praying in congregation - in the first sitting the Imam has rose to start the 3rd rak'ah but the muqtadi has not yet finished reciting the tashahud, should he: a) finish reciting the tashahud before the joining the Imam or b) does he stand up to follow the Imam and not finish reciting the tashahud? --- The lower back becoming uncovered during prayer (sitr e awrah) - http://www.seekerspath.co.uk/?p=2742
OK, next question- praying in short sleeves where the elbow shows is Makruh- which type of Makruh? (presumably slightly Makruh?) Also, it is recorded in a narration that while travelling RasoolAllahi SalAllahu Alaihi wa Sallim wore a short sleeved upper garment so how do we reconcile the verdict with the Hadith.
It is makruh because the general rule is that anything which distracts the heart or has the potential to distract the heart and shift one's concentration while in salah, it is disliked to pray in front of it. See Bahar e Shari'at (chapter of disliked actions in Salah) and also Nur al-'Idah.
Yes, it is permissible to pray in front of a mirror because whatever can be see in a mirror is not a picture [tasweer], rather it is a reflection (see Jadd-al-Mumtaar)
Is it allowed to pray in front of a mirror? What if someone praying gets dragged away from the place he was praying? Is the salah broken?
gleaned from Fatawa-Nizamia (Jamia Nizamia - Hyderabad) : If someone misses six prayers then he does not remain a sahib-e-tarteeb according to the shariah, and anyone who has missed less than six is still considered a sahib-e-tarteeb. If someone has missed six or more prayers then to become a sahib-e-tarteeb he has to make up all of his missed prayers fatawa-e-alamgiri ( vol-1 page-123 )
salam, when one will become Sahib at-tarteeb if one has qadah prayers of several years;as soon as one finishes all qadah prayers or when one does not miss any prayer further for quite a long time?
a) one who is Sahib at-tarteeb, [less than or equal to five salats pending] must join with the niyyah of nafl; and later you should pray zuhr and pray `aSr. b) as haroon said, using both hands invalidates salah in our madh'hab. many people jerk their pants (or kurta-long cloak) when going down for sujud with both hands; this is wrong and ala Hazrat wrote that this invalidates salat. however, one has to do it with one hand, and if possible inconspicously. [once, a man praying next to me took out the phone, looked at the display as to who was calling and switched it off, before putting it back in the pocket - strictly speaking, the salat is not invalidated even in such a case, though intensely disliked] Allah knows best.
asak Jazak Allah, Haroon. My first question was asked because they say if you are Sahib-e-Tarteeb (which I think means that you have prayed the last 6 salahs?), you must retain the right order and pray dhuhr before 'Asr. But, if I didn't pray 'Asr with Jama'ah, it would've looked dodgy and I would've had to tell them my dhuhr is qada.
Salam Aqdas, 1) in such a case, join the jamaat for asr and then pray your zuhr qaza afterwards. 2) If he used both his hands to turn of the phone, then this would break the prayer according to the hanafi madhab, is what i've been taught. Therefore, his prayer would be invalid (if he was hanafi) and as we know, in the hanafi school, the prayer of the imam is the prayer of the follower. And also, to answer my own unanswered question, the imam must have the intention to lead people at the beginning of his salah, without which, the prayer of the follower is invalid, according to the hanafi school.
A few more queries asak (1) I didn't pray my dhuhr and it became Qada. I went to pray Dhuhr and 'Asr. But, when I got to the prayer room, the adhan for 'Asr had been said and the jama'ah began. So, do I tell everyone I need to pray my dhuhr first (which means letting them know I made it qada) or do I remain quiet and pray 'Asr with them in jama'ah and pray dhuhr later? (2) The Imam's phone went off. He turned it off. Does this affect his or the muqtadi's prayer? Jazak Allah in advance.
asak How would the latecomer know that the brother is praying fard? For Fajr, Maghrib and 'Isha he may be reciting loudly, but for Dhuhr and 'Asr?
Salam, i also have a question. Many a time i have noticed that a brother is praying on his own (fardh) and next brother comes up and taps him and becomes his follower, and then other people join the jamaat and at the end you see that everyone except the imam stands up to complete their prayer. I know this is allowed in the shafi madhab, but is it so the case in the hanafis? Because i thought not yeah, but then i see hanafi brothers also joining in. And like the other day i joined in (not knowing that the imam from the start did not have the intention to lead any followers) and then only realised when he did salam (because everyone except him got up). But what would have happened if say one of the followers actually caught the imam in the first rakat, so that i would have thought that the imam had the intention of the salah?
