{"id":3519,"date":"2022-02-22T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2022-02-22T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T09:08:01","slug":"falling-asleep-during-the-sajdah-posture-of-salaah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=3519","title":{"rendered":"Falling asleep during the Sajdah posture of Salaah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Falling asleep during the Sajdah posture of Salaah<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q. If a man or woman fall asleep during the Sajdah posture of Salaah, does their Salaah break? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>If a man falls asleep during the <strong>prescribed Sajdah posture of Salaah<\/strong> (i.e. forehands are off the ground, away from the body and stomach is away from the thighs) and remains in that posture until he awakes, his Salaah remains <strong>valid <\/strong>and he may continue with performing his Salaah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if a woman falls asleep during the prescribed Sajdah posture of Salaah, (i.e. forehands are on the ground and stomach is attached to the body), her Salaah becomes <strong>invalid <\/strong>and she will have to repeat her Salaah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difference is that a man effectively has control over his muscles during the prescribed Sajdah posture of Salaah which does not result in exposing his body to the release of wind whereas, a woman\u2019s body is relaxed during the prescribed Sajdah posture of Salaah and results in exposing her body to the release of wind. <strong>(Al-Bahrur-Raaiq 1\/39)<\/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>Falling asleep during the Sajdah posture of Salaah Q. If a man or woman fall asleep during the Sajdah posture of Salaah, does their Salaah break?<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laws-of-women","category-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","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=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}