Invalidators of prayer
During prayer the Muslim must avoid anything that invalidates his prayer. The invalidators of the prayer include:
- Uttering words which do not include mentioning Allaah
- Uttering a letter or two letters that carry a meaning while remembering that one is praying
- Performing many moves that lasts for the duration of one Ra'kah which is one cycle
- Eating, even if it is little, like a sesame seed, except if one forgets
- Drinking while remembering that one is in the prayer. Even if it is little, like swallowing a drop of water on one's lips
- Performing one move with the purpose of playing
- Performing an excessive move such as jumping
- Purposely adding an extra integral of action such as making sujood three times in one Ra'kah
- Intending to interrupt prayer, in this case one's prayer becomes invalid immediately
- Making the intention to interrupt prayer contingent on the occurence of an incident, such as saying in one's heart "if my brother comes I willl interrupt my prayer and open the door for him". This invalidates the prayer immediately, even if one's brother does not come
- Hesitating about interrupting the prayer
- Completing an integral while the doubt is still persisting about one's intention during the opening takbeer, or doubting a long time about this intention. For example: If someone recites the Fatiha while doubting about if one intended Dhuhr or Asr, one's prayer is invalid.
- The prayer is also invalid when the time of doubt is done even if an entire integral did not pass. An example is if one recites the entire Surah of ___ while one doubts one's intention, then one's prayer is invalid
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