 Peace be upon you. Welcome to Ahkam SOS, the show that discusses Islamic duties and practices. By his eminence to the ground, I told him to say Salik Shirazi, may Allah prolong his life. I'm Mohsin Shah, and joining me is Sheikh Ali Ma'ar. Peace be upon you, Sheikh Ma'ar. Peace be upon you, Sheikh Ma'ar. Sheikh Ma'ar, in our previous discussions, we've discussed Salah, we've discussed the different Ruqans, we've discussed Sujood, Ruqa, Qanot, we discussed after the Salah, the Tashahud at the Sleim, and we also discussed the taqibah. My question for you, Sheikh Ma'ar, is, while I'm in the Salah, is there anything that I can do to cause it to become invalid, to become barter? There are 12 cases in which Salah will invalidate by implementing and applying these 12 cases. So I begin with the first one, and that is, I think we've mentioned this in some episodes about the effect and the influence of this act. And that is the gasop, or when someone prays in usurped place, in usurped, let's say, property or land, that will cause the Salah to be barter. And of course, we mentioned this Hukum that if somebody knew that before he prays during his prayer and after his prayer. So we mentioned the Hukum in detail in some previous episodes. So anyhow, if somebody learns, even in the Salah, that the place he is praying is usurped, his Salah is barter. So he must leave this place immediately and find someone else that is permissible and allowed and performs his Salah and prayer. The second invalidator is the act of spoiling the wudu, or also in other words, you do something that your wudu becomes barter. And as a result, the Salah will be barter as well. So for example, breaking wind, urine, and so forth. So you're doing while you're in Salah? Yes, of course. Or even before Salah, because if you break the wudu before Salah, you can't pray. And if you pray Salah as barter, you're praying without wudu. So you have to make sure that you do the wudu and you start the Salah again with purity and cleanliness. So that's the second one. The third act in which makes the Salah battle is when the one folds his hands and prays as the Sunnis do, the non-Shia do. And as mentioned here, which is to place the hands over another, across the body. That act of taqfir, as it says in Arabic, taqfir yadain, to fold your hands, that will cause the Salah to be battle. That's nothing to do in Salah. And that is not part of the Sunnah of the Prophet, as they claim. Even in the time of Abu Bakr, there was no hand-folding and praying. It came in the time of Umar ibn Khattab. I mean, we know that from the Maliki school of thought. They're Sunni, but they pray with their hands by their sides. They don't fold their hands. So it was innovated as bid'ah in the time of Umar when he saw some Iranian captives folding their hands. And they brought to before his meeting place. And then he said, okay, let's have it in Salah as well. It's a nice thing that we respect Allah in this way. We don't accept such a thing. The Tashri'ah and the legislation must be from Allah SWT through his Prophet. No one has the right to legislate something in religion. That is called bid'ah or innovation. So folding your hands in Salah is a bid'ah, innovation. It's haram and forbidden and will make your Salah battle. The fourth act, which is also bid'ah and innovated in Salah. Again, by the non-Shia, it's to say Amin in Salah after Surah Al Hamd. Again, that will make the Salah battle as well. So we have to avoid it. The exception is for both the folding hands and the Amin is in the time of Taqiyyah. When you're in danger, the situation is life threatening. Then you can fold your hands and say Amin with them because you want to save your life and stay alive. That's the exception, which is known as Taqiyyah as I've mentioned many times. The fifth one is when you turn back to the Qiblah. So let's say if the Qiblah is straight this way, you turn the other side. Opposite direction and your back is towards the Qiblah. So you are no longer facing the Qiblah. Exactly. That will cause the Salah to be battle. You have to repeat the Salah again. Sheikh, when facing the Qiblah, we are allowed a little bit of flexibility, aren't we? I think it's 45 degrees, 45 degrees each side. That is when I don't know the exact Jihad or direction of the Qiblah. And the Hadith says that between the Mushrik and the Maghrib, Qiblah for the one who prayed but he didn't know the exact direction of the Qiblah. So if you prayed between the Mushrik, the east and the west between these two sides or directions, the Qiblah would be there and accepted. But if we know exactly the direction, we should pray exactly towards the Qiblah. But if somebody never knew about it, he prayed in the wrong direction then. This is the maximum and this is the limit. If he passes this limit, then he has to do the Salah again as I mentioned to turn one's back to the Qiblah and pray on the other side. Sorry, please carry on. Yes, just one more left. Lastly, two other words other than the Dhikr. So to talk in the Salah in overall. So talking in the Salah in any language, even in Arabic, will cause the Salah to be battle even in reading Quran which is Hamd and Surah or Dhikr, Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah and so forth. So if you talk in Salah, let's say if you say it to somebody, open the door and you continue. That open the door or iftah al-Bab in Arabic, that would cause the Salah to be battle. You can't talk in Salah at all. You are in a restricted mood and phase of worship and Ibadah. It's like fasting. You can't eat or drink anything. You drink or eat, you break it fast. Likewise, if you talk in Salah, the Salah will be void and battle. What if I say something by accident? Maybe when I was getting up from Sujood to Qiyam, it's quite difficult or something like that. If I'm in pain and something comes out by accident, does that render the Salah battle? If you say two letters in a word which is at least or more and it was unintentional, that's fine. As long as it is not intentional and deliberate, then the Salah is correct and correct. Otherwise, if you say even one letter which means in Arabic a whole word, let's say we have a word in Qur'an as well. Qaw and Fusakum. Qaw is Qaf and Wao and Aleph. Qaf means to protect. Qaw means protect yourself and your family in plural, in Jama'a. If you say Qaf and you mean by this to protect or to refrain, for example, that will make your Salah battle deliberately, of course. Or if you say two letters as you mentioned, ah or ah, deliberately that will make your Salah also battle. But if it was unintentional, that's fine. The Salah is correct and valid. Sheikhna, what if I want to communicate with someone? Maybe there's a danger or something's happening, maybe there's someone at the door. Or I do, instead of saying something, I continue to recite my dhikr, but I change it a little bit. I may say my dhikr a little bit louder or put some more emphasis on my dhikr. So I'm trying to tell them something. Does that render the Salah battle? If you say this with the intention of dhikr, with the intention of being a part of the dhikr. So let's say somebody knocks the door and nobody notices or nobody listens to the doorbell. And it's only the one who was you who listened to the doorbell. Then you can say Allahu Akbar, for example, to open the door, for example. Just to alert them to open the door. Allahu Akbar is part of the dhikr that you can say in Salah. It's mustahab, to say la ilaha Allah, as I mentioned in some places, for example. Subhanallah, these are mustahab dhikr, you can mention them in Salah. So to raise your voice a bit, that's fine, to alert them. There's no issue, but as I've said, if you say open the door, open the door, that will make you Salah. Because these words are outside the Salah. They're not Quran or dhikr. Sheikh, what about, I'm sure a lot of the brothers and sisters go through this, is coughing and sneezing in Salah. We live in a country that has, the weather never makes its mind up, unfortunately. And obviously causes us to get ill. And maybe while we're praying Salah, we start to cough. What if we sneeze? Are we supposed to say, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, after we sneeze in Salah? What's supposed to be done? There is no objection with regard to coughing or sneezing in Salah. This is part of the human's nature. Especially those who are, let's say, they catch cold, for example. That's fine, you can sneeze, have cough. But if somebody, let's say, had some kind of pain, and he says ah or ah or ouch, for example, saying these two letters in Salah will make the Salah void and battle, the liberty of course. So we have to be careful that we just have it up to the limit of, let's say, the sneeze or the cough. And we don't utter these two letters, the ah or ah or ah, and so forth. Sheikhna, is it okay to repeat certain words a certain number of times in Salah? Or are we restricted to how many times we can say something in Salah? If it's the dhikr or specifically? Repeating a word or a ayah in Salah, that's fine. There's no objection with it. You're allowed to repeat the word or the ayah in which you feel that as a precaution. You haven't done it properly. You might have missed haraqah or something or letter, for example. That's fine. You go back and repeat it. There's no objection with it. However, if it became, as the Sayyid mentions, the repeat was on the ground of obsession and waswasah. Okay. In which there are some people, God forbid, you know, they have the problem waswaswasah. Obsessed with, you know, with the issues of Salah and their very precautions. They repeat. They do the wudu. Sometimes they do wudu for 15 minutes just to make sure the wudu is complete. Salah for half an hour, repeating each word. Imagine Allah Akbar, for example. I think the best way to describe those people are that they're over suspicious and not confident in themselves that they performed the duties correctly. Exactly. So if it reaches this level of waswasah that you repeat each word or each ayah and the repetition was, let's say, more than normality. Then in this case, the Salah will be ba'atil. Sadly, the Salah will be, in this case, void. And this person must repeat the Salah. And according to some narrations that Imam says, this is of shaitan. This is part of the devil. So you shouldn't follow the devil. You should follow Allah swt. And ignore the shaitan. And ignore this waswasah. And just keep on. Don't repeat. Just go ahead with the recitation, with the recourses. Don't just repeat and stop in the Salah otherwise the shaitan will overwhelm and takes over. Sheikhna, in the surah, if there's a ayah that I like, there's a ayah that helps me get close to God, there's a ayah that I want to emphasize on. So I repeat it two, three times. Is that okay? Or that shouldn't be done neither? As I've said, to repeat it, let's say twice or three times, that's fine. Just to make sure I perform the Salah with the correct recitation or thicker, that's fine. But as I've said, if it was reaching the level of waswasah, obsessively, in this case the Salah would be battle. As a precaution, the shaitan says. The Salah will be battle. So I have to avoid it. If we have observed the recitation well before the Salah, if we learned, especially attending the Majalis of Quran in the month from month, listening to the Quran from the TV and watching and from the TV or listening from the MP3 and so forth, I think that will help a lot for those who want to read the Quran accurately in Salah. Thank you, sheikh-ran. And thank you to all the viewers for joining us on Iqam As-Salat. Please, please be careful in your Salah. Make sure you don't make it invalid, insha'Allah. Insha'Allah, we'll see you on the next episode of Iqam As-Salat. As-salamu alaikum, rahmatullahi wabarakatuh.