Salät is broken when any of the following happens during Salät:
- If one of the Conditions of Salat is not present, without an excuse
- If one misses one of the Essentials (Arkan) of salat, without making it up.
- If one speaks during Salät whether intentionally, unknowingly or mistakenly.
- two letters, unless one letter is a meaningful word
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- If one eats or drinks something, even if the thing is less in quantity.
- from outside the mouth, including a drop of water
- He eats something that had stuck to his teeth during Saläh and the thing was equal in size to a gram-grain or larger.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- He becomes insane during Salät.
- He loses consciousness during Salät.
- The sun rises during Fajr Saläh.
- Noon begins during Ïd Saläh.
- The time of Asr starts during Friday Saläh.
- If one was performing Salät with Tayammum and during the Saläh, he found water or became capable of using water.
- 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
- If one’s elongates the starting hamz̈ah of Allähu akbar.
- it is as if you are asking a question?
- If one recites from the book of holy Qur’än.
- AH - salt is invalid
- Two jurists - prayer in tact
- If one performs a Salät-essential in the state of sleep and on getting up from sleep, he does not repeat the essential.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- He laughs audibly during Salät.
- if one can only hear himself then salat is invalidated, but wudu is still in tact
- 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).
- 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.
- 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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