{"id":2408,"date":"2020-01-25T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2020-01-25T10:35:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T08:35:01","slug":"is-it-sufficient-for-one-to-focus-on-the-words-in-ones-mind-during-salaah-instead-of-reciting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":"Is it sufficient for one to focus on the words in one\u2019s mind during Salaah instead of reciting it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Is it sufficient for one to focus on the words in one\u2019s mind during Salaah instead of reciting it? <\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Is it sufficient for one to focus on the words in one\u2019s mind during Salaah instead of reciting it? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> The minimum requirement for any recital in Salaah is that the words\/letters must be uttered with the tongue whilst performing Salaah. If one performs Salaah without any utterance of the words\/letters with the tongue whilst performing Salaah, the requirement of recital in Salaah will not be fulfilled. Hence, it is insufficient for one to focus on the words\/letters in one\u2019s mind without actually uttering it whilst performing Salaah as the Salaah would be rendered invalid.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, this type of \u2018recitation\u2019 deprives one from reaping any reward and benefit of the Salaah <strong>(Shaami 1\/534 &#8211; Fataawa Mahmoodiyyah 10\/47 &#8211; Fataawa Fareediyyah 2\/240)<\/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>Is it sufficient for one to focus on the words in one\u2019s mind during Salaah instead of reciting it? Q. Is it sufficient for one to<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-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","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=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}