Tuesday, 1 September 2026
Ibaadah / Prayers/Salaat
The prayer: its conditions, its pillars, and the errors that invalidate it.
21 articles in Prayers/Salaat
Yes. Purity is a condition for the validity of the prayer, so a prayer performed without wudu is repeated once you realise — but there is no sin for the honest mistake.
Yes — the majority of scholars permit combining Dhuhr with ‘Asr and Maghrib with ‘Isha while travelling, and it is authentically established from the Sunnah.
Scholars differ. The majority hold that missed prayers are made up; a significant group holds that prayers abandoned deliberately cannot be made up and require sincere repentance and abundant voluntary prayer instead.
Yes, provided they are clean. The Prophet ﷺ prayed in his sandals and instructed his Companions to differ from those who did not — but mosque carpets and modern footwear make it impractical in most masjids today.
When water is unavailable or its use would cause harm: strike clean earth with both palms once, wipe the face, then wipe the hands. It replaces both wudu and ghusl.
Anything exiting the two passages, deep sleep, loss of consciousness, and — on the view of some schools — touching the private parts directly and eating camel meat.
Water must reach the entire body. If an area was genuinely missed, washing that area suffices on the view of many scholars, though some require repeating the ghusl if the sequence is deemed obligatory.
For men, the majority of scholars hold it strongly emphasised, and a significant group holds it obligatory. All agree it carries twenty-seven times the reward of praying alone.
Jumu‘ah is not obligatory on women, but their attendance is permitted and the Prophet ﷺ instructed that women not be prevented from the masjid. If they do not attend, they pray Dhuhr.
Pray sitting; if you cannot sit, lying on your side; if you cannot, then by indication. The obligation does not lift, only the form changes.
Yes, outside of the prayer without any dispute, and inside the prayer according to many scholars — though several schools restrict supplication within the prayer to Arabic.
Four takbirs standing, with no ruku‘ or sujud: al-Fatihah after the first, salah upon the Prophet ﷺ after the second, supplication for the deceased after the third, and the salam after the fourth.
