 Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Welcome to Ahkam SOS, the show that discusses Islamic duties and practices by Muslims in accordance with these eminence, the grand ayatullah says Salik Shirazi. I'm your host, Muslim Shah, and joining me is Sheikh Ali Ma'as. Salamu alaikum sheikhna. Salamun alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Good to see you again. Thank you. Mashallah. Sheikhna, previously we've been discussing how to recite loudly or quietly in Salah. And I wanted to ask you, in the third and fourth raka'ah, when we do the tazbi or we recite alhamd on its own, do we recite that loudly or silently? And what about the Bismillah as well? I seek refuge with Allah from Satan and the accursed, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed, the Most Merciful, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. With regard to reciting surah alhamd in the third and fourth raka'ah of Salah, instead of the tazbihaat al-arba'ah, the four tazbihaat, subhanAllah, walhamdulillah, wa la ilahe illa Allah, wa Allah, wa Akbar, as we've said, you can recite surah alhamd. However, you recite surah alhamd, number one, silently, quietly. And also the Bismillah, the Bismillah that you say to start the surah with, the say it says as a precaution, you begin the Bismillah as well. With the surah alhamd, all silently. Ascent, ascent. Shakhna, what if an individual, deliberately, he recites loud or silent? Is his Salah battle? As mentioned before that, we have some of the parts of the Salah. You must, as a man, for example, mentioned in surah al-sabuh, and maghrib al-ashaa, you must recite surah alhamd and surah for the men loud. And that's wajib and a must. So if somebody, especially those who are turned to become baligh, newly baligh, and some people who might shy to, you know, say loud in the mosque in front of others, for example, that they try to read surah al-sabuh or maghrib al-ashaa silently. And they must understand that this hukum is wajib, and they have to say it loudly. And if not, the Salah would be void and battle. You must, as a male, recite surah al-hamd and surah al-sabuh, maghrib al-ashaa, loud. That's important. However, if somebody forget to basically say them and recite them loudly, then they have to revert back straight away whenever they remember to recite it loudly. So in the middle of the al-hamd, in the middle of the surah, you can just switch to raise your voice. That's it. You don't have to start the surah? Not at all. You don't have to go back and repeat the surah again. So that's fine. So it's important for the youth to understand this hukum that they must read for the male specifically, that they must read these three sessions with a loud voice. And as I've said, not to scream or shout, that will eventually make the Salah battle, but moderate, loud. I said sheikhna. Sheikhna, what's the ruling if someone unintentionally recites the tasbihat in the first and second raka? Is there a Salah battle? Does he have to repeat the Salah too? If one recites tasbihat al-arba'ah, subhanallah, wa-alhamdulillah, wa-lailah, nallahu-lahu akbar, in the first two raka'ah of the Salah, in which he must have instead recited al-hamd and surah, if he recognizes his mistake just before going to the raka'ah, then he must leave the tasbihat and then read again surah al-hamd and surah. So just ignore it, again start al-hamd and then surah and then you continue your praise. However, if someone reached the stage of raka'ah, in the raka'ah he remembered that he read tasbihat al-arba'ah in the first or second raka'ah of the Salah. The Salah is valid and it's Sahih and just continue with your praise, that's fine. Sheikhna, is it the same with someone who thinks he's made a mistake in his dhikr, in his raka'ah, or maybe he's missed a word or he's missed a ayah or so, should he just continue or should he try to correct himself? What if he's not sure of the word that he pronounced, was it correct or not? In this case, if the one had doubts about if he made a mistake within the ayah, then he needs to go back and repeat the ayah and continue with the recitation. However, if this person reached, let's say, the stage of raka'ah or sujood, then he doesn't have to go back and repeat the ayah or if he thinks that he made a mistake to correct his mistake, because now he's in different stage of the Salah, he's in different raka'ah and the key element of Salah, so he just keeps praying and continues his Salah. Ahsan, Sheikh Na, when we recite a surah in Salah, is it obligatory that we recite the whole surah? Can we not just do a couple of verses? Well, unlike some of the non-shia sects in the Muslim world that they would recite just a few verses of a long surah and they continue, we don't have this hukum. What is our rule is that you must recite the entire surah, a full surah, even if it's a long surah. Let's say you choose to recite surah Maryam, or surah Yusuf, you must complete the surah, even if it's long. As I've said, if you can't, then you can leave the surah and switch to a shorter surah, but if you start any surah, you must complete the entire surah. So it's unlike the other sects of Islam in which they don't mind to read just a few verses of a long surah with their second surah in Salah. Ahsan, Sheikh Na, if one is reciting a surah and he makes a mistake in the last ayah, so is it sufficient just to recite the word again or the whole ayah or the whole surah? And does that go for the other dhikr as well within the Raqo and Sujood? It is sufficient for the Musalli if he made a mistake, let's say in a word, just to repeat that word, you don't have to repeat the whole verse or the whole surah. So you go back to that verse and you go back to that specific word and you just repeat that word. Let's say for example, instead of saying Alhamdulillah, you said Alhamdulillah, so you just go back and say Alhamdulillah, that's it. So you just make this haraqa correct in the Salah and that's it, that's fine, sufficient. What if one was reciting and they forgot the remaining part of the surah? So I'm reciting surah Qadr. I'll get to the third, fourth ayah and I can't remember the rest. What should I do in that situation? As I've mentioned previously that you can switch to another surah, that's fine. So forget the surah, you forget some of the verses, you go back to another let's say shorter surah that you know and memorize and just take that surah instead and then begin reading that surah from the beginning, that's fine. I mean I've got a friend of mine and he was asking me that when I was young I didn't really appreciate Salah and I wasn't really concentrating and giving my full focus on the dhikr and the ruqa and all the obligatory. I was just doing it and now I'm a lot older, I'm a lot more mature, I understand the importance of Salah, I'm very very careful with my Salah. Do I need to repeat those previous prayers that I did where I was a little careless or I paid less attention to? Qadr. Well it is not obligatory and wajib for the one to repeat his past Salah, just that you might think that well I may have done them in the wrong way. What you have to repeat is the one that you're certain that they're Ba'atil. So you go back to the you know to calculation of how many Salah you had 10, 20, 30 days that they were Ba'atil, you know sometimes you know a newly Baalegh you might have heard about this that some may never know about the Ghusl of Janabah for example. So they remain in Janabah for many days and they pray and they fast so they only have to repeat the Salah in which they are certain that they were Ba'atil and I mean the rest you don't have to worry about it because you're not certain that they are Ba'atil or not. It's just the ones that you know that they are Ba'atil. Qadr. I'm sure a lot of the viewers will be understanding this question of mine is that some people who are elderly, it's difficult for us to correct them. Now if we were to see them in Salah doing something wrong, for example they maybe didn't do any dashakhud wrong or maybe they weren't reciting correctly and we know that if we go and speak to them it's going to fall on deaf ears as in they're not going to really listen to us. Do I have an obligation to correct that person Salah if he's elderly and if I know that he's there will be not much benefit. Qadr. You have no obligation in this respect. I mean there's no way for you to go and tell them well your dashakhud is wrong, your Qara'ah is wrong and so forth. It's good that for the one to teach the others in an indirect way for example in some other majalis in other meetings for example to show them the correct way of Salah it's good to teach them. And we have a hadith from Imam Ar-Raz, in which he says to learn our science and knowledge and then to teach them others. So it's good to teach others these ahkam. They're very demanding but in this respect and situation you don't have no a wajib obligation to tell them that you know your Salah is wrong or you have to repeat it again and so forth. Qadr. Quite mature and quite you know responsible. Sheikhna, if someone has discovered that he or she has been pronouncing certain dhikr incorrectly do they have to repeat the Salah which they have been reciting incorrectly for God knows how many years. Let's say a 15-year-old boy became Bulugat 13 and he's been reciting his dhikr incorrectly. He finds out when he's 16 years old. So now he's corrected it he understands. Now the previous ones does he have to repeat those or not? Qadr. Well this individual is not obliged to repeat all the Salah in which he read let's say the dhikr incorrectly in sujood and ruku in qira'ah and recitation. However he must make sure that he learns how to read from now on the correct way of recitation or dhikr or tasbih from now on. He must learn and make sure that he doesn't make mistakes from now on otherwise the past is past and that's fine. Qadr. Mashallah, Ahsan Sheikhna. Sheikhna when I was at university and you know there used to be Jama'at opera and sometimes it wasn't with Shia and after Surah Al-Hamd they would say Amin. Is this actually allowed in the Shia school of thought? Qadr. Saying Amin after Surah Al-Hamd in Salah will render the Salah and praise boyd and batil. Qadr. Okay. Qadr. It is not part of the dhikr in Salah you cannot mention it it's not part of dhikr. However what we can say instead of Amin which makes the Salah batil we can say Alhamdulillah Rabb Al-Alamin. So when we finish you know reading Al-Hamd Alhamdulillah Rabb Al-Alamin. That's mustahab. That's mustahab. That is the dhikr that's some kind of praising Allah swt. Alhamdulillah praise be to Allah the Lord of the Worlds. So we are actually praising Allah swt. That's mustahab you can say that. But Amin is not part of the dhikr. In other words you cannot say it and if you say it the Salah would be batil. So we cannot actually say it. Qadr. When we say Alhamdulillah Rabb Al-Alamin is it the same as when if you recite it loud so Alhamdulillah you say it loud if you recite it silently you say it silently? Qadr. It's mustahab. So you can say it loudly or silently. It's up to you. It's mustahab. So mustahab is mustahab. So you have the option of silent or loudly. Mashallah. Oh my accent. Thank you very much Shaykh Lan. Thank you to all the viewers for joining us on this episode of Hqam SOS. Insha'Allah these episodes taught you how to take care of your Salah and also to pay attention to your dhikr to make sure that you don't make any mistakes and to render your Salah batil. Insha'Allah please join us again on the next episode Hqam SOS. 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