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Lesson No 78
INVALIDATORS OF SALAT
- What do we mean by the term invalidators of Salat?
Ans. Invalidators of Salat are things and circumstances
which nullify the prayer and render it necessary for the worshippers
to revise it.
- Name the invalidators of Salat.
Ans. These are the following:
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any speech in Salat, whether intentional or un-intentional
, big or small, nullifies the prayer;
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wishing anyone in whatever terms (e.g. saying AS-SALAMU
‘ALAIKUM or other words used for the purpose);
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returning another Person’s wish, or blessing or responding
to one who sneezed (with words like WA
‘LAIKUM-AS-SALAM WARAHMATUL-LAH)
; or saying amen in response
to the invocation of some one not joining the Salat;
-
reacting to a bad news by the word like
IN-NA LIL-LAHI WA IN-NA ILAIHI
RAJI’UN
to a good news by pronouncing
ALHAMDU LIL-LAH,
or
on learning an extraordinary news;
SUBHANAL-LAH;
- reacting to one’s pain o disease in words or by exclamation like
ah, oh, etc ;
- interpolating in Salat when an error is committed by a person leading
another congregation ;
- reading the Qur-an from the
written or printed text ;
- committing some grave mistake in recitation ;
- doing too much of some extraneous act (besides the rituals of Salat
such as would lead someone to suspect that the person concerned is
not offering Salat) ;
- eating or drinking, intentional or otherwise ;
- walking more than two meters ;
- turning the chest away from Qiblah
without any compulsion ;
- performing Sijdah on an unclean
spot ;
- remaining with uncovered Satr
for as long as one would complete one part of Salat.
- asking from Al-lah things in
prayer that would properly be asked from human beings, e.g., "May
Thou O Al-lah; give me one hundred
rupees this day"!
- crying in adversity or pain so that words sorrow or grief become
audible to others;
- for a major to give a loud laugh or even to laugh audibly;
- forging ahead of the Imam.
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