Please fix mistakes in Salaah so ALLAH accepts
7 Common mistakes in Salaah
Mistake 1: Reciting Surat al-Fatiha fast without
pausing after each verse.
The Prophet
(SAW) used to pause after each verse of this surah. (Abu
Dawood)
If you listen to the Salaah from Mecca or Madina you can check the pauses.
Click here to listen to a beautiful example of recitation (QARI MISHARY) 
Mistake 2: Sticking the arms to the sides of the
body, in rukoo' or sujood, and sticking the belly to the thighs
in sujood.
 
The Messenger of
Allah (SAW) said: 'Let not one of you support himself on his
forearms (in sujood) like the dog. Let him rest on his palms and
keep his elbows away from his body.' (Sahih Muslim) . The
Messenger of Allah (SAW) used to keep his arms away from his
body during rukoo' and sujood that the whiteness of his armpits
could be seen (Sahih Muslim).
Mistake 3: Gazing upward
during prayer.
This may cause
loss of concentration. We are commanded to lower our gaze, and
look at the point at which the head rests during sujood. The
Prophet (SAW) warned: 'Let those who raise their gaze up during
prayer stop doing so, or else their sights would not return to
them. i.e. lose their eyesight].' (Muslim)
Mistake 4 :
Resting only the tip of the head on the floor during
sujood.
 
The Prophet
(SAW) said: 'I am commanded to prostrate on seven bones the
forehead and the nose, the two hands [palms], the two knees, and
the two feet.' (Sahih Muslim) Applying the above command
necessitates resting the forehead and the nose on the ground
during sujood.
Mistake 5 : Hasty performance of prayer which
does not allow repose and calmness in rukoo' or sujood.
The Messenger of
Allah (SAW) saw a man who did not complete his rukoo' [bowing],
and made a very short sujood [prostration] ; he (SAW) said: 'If
this man dies while praying in this manner, he would die
upholding a religion other than the religion of Muhammad.' Abu
Hurairah (RA) said:
'My beloved friend, Muhammad (SAW)
forbade me to perform postures of prayer copying the picking of
a rooster; (signifying fast performance of prayer), moving eyes
around like a fox and the sitting like monkeys ( i.e. to sit on
thighs).' (Imam Ahmad & at-Tayalisi) The Messenger of Allah
(SAW) said: ' The worst thief is the one who steals from his own
prayer.' People asked, 'Messenger of Allah! How could one steal
from his own prayer?' He ( SAW) said: 'By not completing its
rukoo' and sujood.' (At Tabarani & al-Hakim).
To
complete rukoo' is to stay in that posture long enough to recite
'Subhana rabbiyal Adtheem' three times, SLOWLY, and 'Subhana
rabbiyal-a'ala' three times, SLOWLY, in sujood. He (SAW) also
announced: 'He who does not complete his rukoo' and sujood, his
prayer is void.' (Abu Dawood & others)
Mistake 6 :
Counting tasbeeh with the left hand
The Prophet
(SAW) used to count tasbeeh on the fingers of his right hand
after salah. Ibn Qudamah (RA) sai d: ' The Messenger of Allah
(SAW) used his right hand for tasbeeh.' (Abu Dawood). The above
hadeeth indicates clearly that the Prophet (SAW) used only one
hand for counting tasbeeh. No Muslim with sound mind would
imagine that the Prophet (SAW) used his left hand for counting
tasbeeh. Aa'ishah (RA) said that the Prophet (SAW) used his left
hand only for Istinjaa', or cleaning himself after responding to
the call of nature. He never used it for tasbeeh. Yasirah (RA)
reported: The Prophet (SAW) commanded women to count tasbeeh on
their fingers.
The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: 'They (the
fingers) will be made to speak, and will be questioned (on the
Day of Resurrection. )' (At-Tirmidhi) .. The above Hadeeth
indicates that it is preferable to count tasbeeh on the fingers
of the right hand than to do so on masbahah (rosary).
Mistake 7 : Crossing in front of a praying
person.
The Messenger of
Allah (SAW) warned: 'Were the one who crosses in front of a
praying person to know the consequences of doing so, he would
have waited for *forty better than to cross in front of him.'
(Sahih Bukhari and Muslim). *The forty in the tradition may be
days months or even years. Allah knows best.
Common Errors
in Prayer That MUST Be Avoided
Please educate others also so their Salaah becomes better.
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