Foreign speech in the prayer and its effect on its validity
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The questioner:
And the guidance of the Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Does foreign speech in the body of the prayer, for its sake, invalidate it?
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
Foreign speech? Foreign to
The Shaykh:
Babbling, meaning babbling is this foreign speech. What does he mean by foreign?
The questioner:
Meaning he says to him: prostrate, or bow, or something like that.
The Shaykh:
If he uses a word from the Qur'an, there is nothing wrong with that. If he uses a word from the Qur'an, there is nothing wrong with that in the prayer to achieve the purpose. As is mentioned regarding al-Hajjaj, that he prayed with the people and a verse came to him, so he said: "Return it to me. Why do you not speak?" Yes, he used words from the Qur'an to alert those behind him. There is nothing wrong with that. Yes.
And the guidance of the Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Does foreign speech in the body of the prayer, for its sake, invalidate it?
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
Foreign speech? Foreign to
The Shaykh:
Babbling, meaning babbling is this foreign speech. What does he mean by foreign?
The questioner:
Meaning he says to him: prostrate, or bow, or something like that.
The Shaykh:
If he uses a word from the Qur'an, there is nothing wrong with that. If he uses a word from the Qur'an, there is nothing wrong with that in the prayer to achieve the purpose. As is mentioned regarding al-Hajjaj, that he prayed with the people and a verse came to him, so he said: "Return it to me. Why do you not speak?" Yes, he used words from the Qur'an to alert those behind him. There is nothing wrong with that. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل في بيان كيد الشيطان لنفسه قبل كيده للأبوين — islamhouse.com (53:35)
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