Salät is broken when any of the following happens during Salät:

  1. If one of the Conditions of Salat is not present, without an excuse
  2. If one misses one of the Essentials (Arkan) of salat, without making it up.
  3. If one speaks during Salät whether intentionally, unknowingly or mistakenly.
    • two letters, unless one letter is a meaningful word
  4. If one supplicates with words that resemble human conversation,
    • e.g. saying: “Alläh! Marry me to so and so woman.”, “Alläh! Give me an apple to eat.”
    • any dua not from the Quran or reported in the hadith
    • a dua that is not impossible to be granted by a human being (so Allah grant me maghfira, can be a valid supplication that can be made)
      • therefore leave the longer dua in your own language for outside of the salat
  5. If one greets a person by saying saläm or responds to a greeting by tongue or through handshake.
    • It does not matter whether the greeting occurred intentionally, unknowingly or mistakenly.
    • If he responds to a greeting of saläm by gesture, then his Saläh will not be broken.
  6. If one does a major non-Salät (excessive) movements.
    • such as, if an on-looker witnessed it they would be sure that you are not praying
    • estimated as three consecutive movements of a single limb or moving both limbs at once
  7. If one turns away his chest from the Salät-direction
    • bina (continuing from where you left off and other conditions are fulfilled)
    • unless they were bumped into for example and they turn back to qiblah within a rukn
  8. If one eats or drinks something, even if the thing is less in quantity.
    • from outside the mouth, including a drop of water
  9. He eats something that had stuck to his teeth during Saläh and the thing was equal in size to a gram-grain or larger.
  10. If one hems without need.
    • unless done to clear the throat to recite, or to inform the imam for a mistake, or to inform someone that they are in prayer
  11. If one sighs, whines, groans or wails not on account of Alläh’s fear.
    • a sick person who is unable to control his groans or sighs is excluded from this rule. His Saläh will not be broken owing to these.
  12. If one weeps with a loud sound and the weeping was not owing to Alläh’s fear or due to the mention of Paradise or Hell, rather it was due to some pain or calamity.
  13. The organs to be hidden get bare during Salät and remain so for a period in which a small essential of Salät may be performed.
    • a quarter of the part
  14. Physical impurity is found on one’s body, garments or the place of Salät and it remains there for the period of a small Salät-essential.
  15. He becomes insane during Salät.
  16. He loses consciousness during Salät.
  17. The sun rises during Fajr Saläh.
  18. Noon begins during Ïd Saläh.
  19. The time of Asr starts during Friday Saläh.
  20. If one was performing Salät with Tayammum and during the Saläh, he found water or became capable of using water.
  21. If one’s ablutional purity got invalid due to his own act or due to some other person’s act.
    • some one else act - a thrown rock causes bleeding
  22. If one’s elongates the starting hamz̈ah of Allähu akbar.
    • it is as if you are asking a question?
  23. If one recites from the book of holy Qur’än.
    • AH - salt is invalid
    • Two jurists - prayer in tact
  24. If one performs a Salät-essential in the state of sleep and on getting up from sleep, he does not repeat the essential.
  25. The Salät-performer is a person of tartïb and while performing a Salät, he remembers that there is a Salät which he has yet to perform.
  26. The imäm makes a person who is incapable (ineligible) of doing the job of imäm his deputy during Saläh.
    • substitute does not know how to recite Quran or is a child
  27. He thinks (he is not sure) that an Ablution-invalidator has occurred to him, so he goes out of the mosque, passes by rows of Salät-performers, or crosses the Sutrah in case it is not a mosque.
    • leaving the mosque, one needs to restart
  28. He laughs audibly during Salät.
    • if one can only hear himself then salat is invalidated, but wudu is still in tact
  29. He pulls out any or both of his thick socks during Salät no matter whether it is done with a minor non-Salät act or a major non-Saläh act (movement).
  30. An Imäm-follower precedes his Imäm in performing a Saläh-essential such that he is not with the Imäm during that Saläh-essential even for a moment.
    • For example, the Imäm-follower bows and then raises his head from Bowing before his Imäm starts that Bowing, then he does not repeat the Bowing with him.
  31. A major de jure Filth occurs to him during Saläh, no matter whether it occurs on account of looking at a woman, thinking about her or nocturnal emission.

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