The Ruling on Praying with a Wandering Mind
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh! Wandering of the mind and excessive thinking during prayer: does a person have to repeat it if that happens to him, or is the prayer valid?
Answer:
The prayer is valid, but he is not credited with any reward except for the portion of the prayer in which his heart was present, whether that is half of it, a third of it, a tenth of it, or he is not credited with anything at all. However, the prayer is valid because he performed its pillars, its obligatory acts, and its conditions, so it is valid. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh! Wandering of the mind and excessive thinking during prayer: does a person have to repeat it if that happens to him, or is the prayer valid?
Answer:
The prayer is valid, but he is not credited with any reward except for the portion of the prayer in which his heart was present, whether that is half of it, a third of it, a tenth of it, or he is not credited with anything at all. However, the prayer is valid because he performed its pillars, its obligatory acts, and its conditions, so it is valid. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/057 — archive.org (11:27)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.