fiqh- class 9
Invalidating & Disliked acts in Salah
Things Which Invalidate The Prayer (Mubdilatu-Salaat)
Prayer if performed well with due regard to its conditions, pillars, duties and preferred acts, truly illuminates the heart and purifies the soul. It is the means by which man communicates with Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala) and therefore, one should keep it free from anything which would render it invalid. In Arabic Language, the acts which invalidate the prayer are known as "Mubdillatu-Salaah" and we now list them here below:
Speaking or talking in the course of the prayer.
Laughing in the course of the prayer.
Eating while praying, even though what is eaten maybe as small as a piece of dates.
Drinking while praying, even though what is drank maybe as small as taking only a mouthful.
If someone in the course of the prayer remembers that he/she did not actually perform the ablution (wudhu), then, such a person is required to break the prayer and get out to perform Wudhu.
If a person's ablution (wudhu) gets invalidated in the course of the prayer, then the prayer becomes invalid.
The prayer is also invalidated by carrying out the Rukuu and Sujuud postures with haste and without ease. While in prostration, bobbing (jerking) up and down like chicken pecking food from the ground is not allowed.
Turning oneself away from the direction of the Qiblah also invalidates the prayer.
Things Which Are Not Preferred In The Prayer
Turning of the eyes up. The Prophet ﷺ strongly admonished against this as can be noted from the following saying: “What is the matter with the people who raise their eyes towards the sky while praying? They shall have to refrain from this or else they will lose their eyesight” (Reported by Imam Bukhari). It is also disliked to look right and left and the Prophet ﷺ in this regard says: “It is a deception with which Satan deceives the servant while in prayer” (Reported by Imam Bukhari). The person while praying is required to direct his eyes at the point of prostration.
Yawning, "Yawning is from the Shaytaan. If any of you feels the urge to yawn, let him resist it as much as possible..." (Bukhari)
Closing the eyes in the course of the prayer*.
Placing the hands above the kidneys or on the waist. Hands should be placed over the chest.
Wiping the earth (where to prostrate) more than once to remove pebbles on it.
Reading of the Qur'an, while in Rukuu and in Sujuud positions.
Making unnecessary movements in the course of the prayer such as touching the chin (beard) or fidgeting the fingertips or mending up the clothes e. g. the head turban etc.
Entering to prayer, while food has been served to the person before the prayer or while badly in need of passing excrement and / or urine. The Prophet ﷺ in this regard says: “Prayer is not valid when food has been served and when a person is in need of relieving himself of excrement and/or urine” (Reported by Imam Muslim).
*Exception on closing the Eyes being Makrooh: -
The scholars are agreed that it is makrooh to close the eyes for no reason when praying. The author of al-Rawd stated that it is makrooh because this is what the Jews do. (al-Rawd al-Murabba’, 1/95).
Imaam al-‘Izz ibn ‘Abd al-Salaam said in his fatwas that it is permissible when necessary, if that helps the worshipper to focus more fully on his prayer. Ibn al-Qayyim said in Zaad al-Ma’aad that if a man can focus more fully on his prayer by opening his eyes, then it is better to do so. If he can focus more fully by closing his eyes because there are things that may distract him from his prayer, such as adornments and decorations, then it is not makrooh at all and the view that in this case it is mustahabb for him to close his eyes is closer to the aims and principles of sharee’ah than saying that it is makrooh. (Zaad al-Ma’aad, 1/283).
P.S.- InShaAllah next TERM we will study details about Congregational prayer and other types of Prayers like Istikhaara, Funeral, Prayer of the Traveler etc.
TIPS FOR THE TEST
An important lesson, should remember both what is disliked and what invalidates Salah.
Do not have to memorize the Ayahs, just get a good understanding about them.
ATTENDANCE/ASSIGNMENT
The marks for Attendance/Assignment will be given based on the below activities: -
Practice & Preach any 5 Sunnahs from the Etiquette Class of Week 8 that you were not following. - 5 Marks.
May Allah help us all Learn the Good to apply it in our lives and the Evil to stay away from it InshaAllah!
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