Supplication in the vernacular during prayer
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, when I am desperate and ask Allah for His bounty in this world and the Hereafter using simple, vernacular words, does this invalidate the prayer?
Answer:
No, these are the words. It does not lengthen the prayer, nor is it necessary for it to be in Arabic. It may be in Arabic, but I do not understand it. However, the better and more preferable option, if one is proficient in Arabic, is to use the proper linguistic form. As for the common person who is not proficient in Arabic, he conveys his meaning in the language he is proficient in, even if it is the vernacular. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, when I am desperate and ask Allah for His bounty in this world and the Hereafter using simple, vernacular words, does this invalidate the prayer?
Answer:
No, these are the words. It does not lengthen the prayer, nor is it necessary for it to be in Arabic. It may be in Arabic, but I do not understand it. However, the better and more preferable option, if one is proficient in Arabic, is to use the proper linguistic form. As for the common person who is not proficient in Arabic, he conveys his meaning in the language he is proficient in, even if it is the vernacular. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/31 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (50:59)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.