{"id":3460,"date":"2021-11-23T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T08:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T08:25:32","slug":"how-should-a-person-perform-whilst-sitting-and-performing-the-sunnah-and-nafl-salaahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"How should a person perform Salaah whilst sitting and performing the Sunnah and Nafl Salaahs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">How should a person perform Salaah whilst sitting and performing the Sunnah and Nafl Salaahs?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q.&nbsp;How should a person perform whilst sitting and performing the Sunnah and Nafl Salaahs?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; It is permissible to perform all Sunnah and Nafl Salaah whilst sitting on the ground and making Sajdah on the ground. If there is no valid reason for sitting on the ground the reward of the Salaah is halved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With regards to performing Sunnah and Nafl Salaah on a chair the following rules apply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>a)<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; If a person is <strong>sitting on a chair<\/strong> and performing Salaah <strong>without a valid excuse,<\/strong> then it remains <strong>obligatory (Fardh) to perform the Sajdah by placing the face on the ground.<\/strong> In this case, one will receive <strong>half the reward<\/strong> of a person standing and performing Salaah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>b)<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; If a person is<strong> sitting on a chair<\/strong> and performing Salaah <strong>with a valid excuse which prevents making Sajdah on the ground,<\/strong> then one may <strong>perform the&nbsp; Sajdah by gesture (Ishaarah)&nbsp;<\/strong>i.e. by bending the upper body in such a way that the gesture for Sajda is lower than the bending for Ruku\u2019. In this case, one will receive the <strong>full reward<\/strong> of performing Salaah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the case of the Five Fardh (obligatory) Salaahs, it will <strong>not <\/strong>be permissible to perform them whilst sitting down without a valid reason.<strong> (Shaami 2\/97<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Tahtaawi Ala Maraaqil Falaah 1\/402\/403)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should a person perform Salaah whilst sitting and performing the Sunnah and Nafl Salaahs? Q.&nbsp;How should a person perform whilst sitting and performing the Sunnah<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","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=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}