Doubt in Reciting al-Fatihah in Prayer and the Ruling on Waswasah
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Question:
We return at the beginning of this episode to a message sent to the program from Khamis Mushayt, from the listener Abdullah Abd al-Rahman. We had presented some of his questions in a previous episode, and in this episode he asks and says: Often I doubt whether I recited Surat al-Fatihah in the prayer or not? If that is the case, do I repeat the rak'ah, or what do you advise me to do? Or should I consider that to be waswasah (whispers of Satan)? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
If this is waswasah and it happens to you frequently, do not seek it out. But if this is not waswasah, but rather a doubt that occurred to you, namely
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
We return at the beginning of this episode to a message sent to the program from Khamis Mushayt, from the listener Abdullah Abd al-Rahman. We had presented some of his questions in a previous episode, and in this episode he asks and says: Often I doubt whether I recited Surat al-Fatihah in the prayer or not? If that is the case, do I repeat the rak'ah, or what do you advise me to do? Or should I consider that to be waswasah (whispers of Satan)? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
If this is waswasah and it happens to you frequently, do not seek it out. But if this is not waswasah, but rather a doubt that occurred to you, namely
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 01/131 — archive.org (1:04)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.