What is the stronger position regarding the imam's prescribed pauses: are there two or three?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says, may Allah preserve you: What is the stronger position regarding the imam's prescribed pauses, are there two or three?
Answer:
It is established that there are two pauses: one after the takbir of ihram and before reciting al-Fatihah, and the second when he finishes reciting the surah after al-Fatihah and wants to bow; he pauses before bowing and does not connect the takbir with the recitation. Yes. As for the third, there is disagreement about it, as you have heard. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says, may Allah preserve you: What is the stronger position regarding the imam's prescribed pauses, are there two or three?
Answer:
It is established that there are two pauses: one after the takbir of ihram and before reciting al-Fatihah, and the second when he finishes reciting the surah after al-Fatihah and wants to bow; he pauses before bowing and does not connect the takbir with the recitation. Yes. As for the third, there is disagreement about it, as you have heard. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [467 -582] ما هو القول الراجح في سكتات الإمام المشروعة: هل هي اثنتان أو ثلاث؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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