{"id":2094,"date":"2019-10-11T09:26:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T07:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2019-10-11T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T07:26:18","slug":"does-looking-around-during-salaah-nullify-the-salaah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"Does looking around during Salaah nullify the Salaah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Does looking around during Salaah nullify the Salaah?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Where should a person look during Qiyaam, Ruku\u2019, Sajdah, the sitting postures and Salaam of Salaah? Does a person\u2019s Salaah break by not looking in the correct direction in Salaah? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>It is amongst the etiquette&#8217;s (Aadaab) of Salaah that a person keeps his\/her eyes focused towards the place of Sajdah whilst in Qiyaam (standing posture), towards the upper portion of his\/her feet whilst in Ruku\u2019 (bowing posture), towards his\/her nose whilst in Sajdah (prostration), towards his\/her lap whilst in Qa\u2019dah (sitting posture) and towards his\/her right and left shoulder when turning to make Salaam to his\/her right and left. This is in order to enhance concentration (Khushuu\u2019) during Salaah and a means of receiving the complete reward for ones Salaah.<\/p>\n<p>The Salaah will not be nullified if one does not look in the correct place during the respective positions of Salaah. However, it is more virtuous (Afdhal) to do so. <strong>(Shaami 1\/477)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does looking around during Salaah nullify the Salaah? Q. Where should a person look during Qiyaam, Ruku\u2019, Sajdah, the sitting postures and Salaam of Salaah? Does<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}