INVALIDATORS OF SALAT

INVALIDATORS OF SALAT

Q.   What do we mean by the term invalidators of Salat?

  Invalidators of Salat are things and circumstances which nullify the prayer and render it necessary for the worshippers to revise it.

Q.   Name the invalidators of Salat!

  These are the following:

             i.     Any speech in Salat, whether intentional or unintentional, big or small, nullifies the prayer;

           ii.     Wishing anyone in whatever terms (eg. Saying AS-SALAMU ‘ALAIKUM or other words used for the purpose);

         iii.     Returning another person’s wish, or blessing or responding to one who sneezes (with words lie WA‘LAIKUM-AS-SALAM or WA RAHMATULLAH ), or saying amen in response to the invocation of some one not joining the Salat;

          iv.     Reacting to a bad news by the words 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;

            v.     Reacting to one’s pain or disease in words or by exclamation like ah, oh, etc.

          vi.     Interpolating in Salat when an error is committed by a person leading another congregation;

        vii.     Reading the Qur-an from the written or printed text;

      viii.     Committing some grave mistake in recitation;

          ix.     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;

            x.     Eating or drinking, intentional or otherwise;

          xi.     Walking more than two meters;

        xii.     Turning the chest away from Qiblah without any compusion;

      xiii.     Performing Sijdah on an unclean spot;

       xiv.     Remaining with uncovered Satr for as long as one would complete one part of Salat;

         xv.     Asking from Al-lah things in prayer that would properly be asked from human beings, eg., “May Thou O Al-lah, give me one hundred rupees this day.”

       xvi.     Crying in adversity or pain so that words of sorrow or grief become audible to others;

     xvii.     For a major to give a loud laugh or even to laugh audibly;

   xviii.     Forging ahead of the Imam.