Fatwa: # 21250
Category: Prayer
Country: Switzerland
Date: 21st June 2012

Title

1. Is it permissible to look in the Qur’an and read a certain Surah, which I do not know by heart, while reading Nafl Salaah? 2. Can I make Du’aa in Sajda. In Fardh Salaah?

Question

1. Is it permissible to look in the Qur’an and read a certain Surah, which I do not know by heart, while reading Nafl Salaah?

2. Can I make Du’aa in Sajda. In Fardh Salaah?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

1. In principle, it is not permissible for one who has not memorized the Qur’an to look into the Qur’an and recite any portion of the Qur’an in Salaah.

If one who has not memorized the Qur’an looks into the Qur’an and recites any portion of the Qur’an in Salaah, the Salaah is invalid.[1]

2. In principle, it is permissible for one to make Du’aa in the sajda of a Fardh Salaah if one performs the Fardh Salaah individually. [2] The aforementioned ruling is subject to the following conditions:

1. The Du’aa should be in Arabic.

2. The Du’aa should be a Masnoon Du’aa.

It is advisable that one does not recite any Du’aas, e.t.c besides the prescribed Tasbeehaat in Sajda as it is against the Sunnah to do so.

And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best

Moulana Ismail Desai,
Student Darul Iftaa
Durban, South Africa

Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.

 


[1]  و اذا قرأ المصلي من المصحف، فسدت صلوته و هذا قول أبي حنيفة رحمه الله تعالي، و لأبي حنيفة رحمه الله تعالي عنه وجهان : أحدهما : أن حمل المصحف، و تقليب الأوراق و النظر فيه و التفكر ليفهم ما فيه فيقرأ عمل كثير و العمل الكثير مفسد لما تبين بعد هذا و علي هذا الطريق يفترق الحال بينما اذا كان المصحف في يديه أو كان بين يديه أو يقرأ من المحراب.

الوجه الثاني: أنه تلقن من المصحف، و كأنه تلقن من معلم آخر، و ذلك يفسد الصلوة فهذا كذالك ( المحيط البرهاني، ج 2، ص 157، ادارة القرآن)

و قراءة ما لا يحفظه من مصحف و ان لم يحمله للتلقي من غيره (مراقي الفلاح مع الطحطاوي، ج 1، ص 454، دار التباع)

القراءة فيها من مصحف مفسدة ( مجمع البحرين، ص 136، العلمية)

 

 

[2]  محمودالفتاوي لفقيه الهند حضرت المفتي أحمد الخانفوري ، ج1، ص 458، مكتبة أنور

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