{"id":494,"date":"2013-11-02T22:30:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T02:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=494"},"modified":"2013-11-02T22:30:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T02:30:19","slug":"lengthening-ruku-sajdah-person-join-congregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Lengthening the ruku or sajdah to allow a person to join the congregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Question:<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If after hearing the footsteps of someone or the door of the masjid opening, the Imam lengthens the qirat, ruku or last sitting, what will be the ruling of such a salah? An Imam has said the salah becomes invalid.<\/p>\n<p><b>Answer: <\/b><b>\u062d\u0627\u0645\u062f\u0627 \u0648\u0645\u0635\u0644\u064a\u0627 \u0648\u0645\u0633\u0644\u0645\u0627<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lengthening the qirat, ruku or last sitting to allow a person to join the congregation will be makrooh tahrimi (highly reprehensible) in the scenario where the imam recognizes the person and delays the prayer due to his acquaintance with him.<\/p>\n<p>However, even in this situation the salah is not invalid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the Imam did not recognize him, rather he only did such to help a person catch the rakat or salah, then there is no blame in that, rather he will be rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>In Durr Mukhtaar the following is mentioned:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\">\u0648\u0643\u0631\u0647<i>\u00a0<\/i><em>\u062a\u062d\u0631\u064a\u0645\u0627 \u0625\u0637\u0627\u0644\u0629 \u0631\u0643\u0648\u0639 \u0623\u0648 \u0642\u0631\u0627\u0621\u0629 \u0644\u0625\u062f\u0631\u0627\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0627\u0626\u064a<\/em>\u00a0(\u0623\u064a \u0625\u0646 \u0639\u0631\u0641\u0647 \u0648\u0625\u0644\u0627 \u0641\u0644\u0627 \u0628\u0623\u0633 \u0628\u0647 \u0648\u0644\u0648 \u0623\u0631\u0627\u062f \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u0631\u0628 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u00a0) (\u0634\u0627\u0645\u064a 1:365-366)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However one should remember that this lengthening should not be more than one or two tasbeehs.<\/p>\n<p>And Allah ta\u2019aalaa knows best.<br \/>\nHazrat Mufti Ahmad Khanpuri Saheb (May Allah preserve him)<br \/>\nMahmoodul Fataawaa\u00a01\/462<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: If after hearing the footsteps of someone or the door of the masjid opening, the Imam lengthens the qirat, ruku or last sitting, what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-method-of-performance","wpcat-96-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}