Reciting al-Fatihah in a language other than Arabic for a woman who has converted to Islam
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Question:
He says: May Allah protect you, a foreign woman has converted to Islam. She is advanced in age and cannot speak the Arabic language. Is it permissible for her to recite al-Fatihah in her own language during her prayer?
Answer:
No, the Qur'an is not recited except in the Arabic language. This is what is possible; it can only be recited in the Arabic language. It is obligatory for her to learn al-Fatihah in the Arabic language. It is not permissible to recite it, or any verse of the Qur'an, in a foreign language. This does not align. Yes.
He says: May Allah protect you, a foreign woman has converted to Islam. She is advanced in age and cannot speak the Arabic language. Is it permissible for her to recite al-Fatihah in her own language during her prayer?
Answer:
No, the Qur'an is not recited except in the Arabic language. This is what is possible; it can only be recited in the Arabic language. It is obligatory for her to learn al-Fatihah in the Arabic language. It is not permissible to recite it, or any verse of the Qur'an, in a foreign language. This does not align. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب المضمضة والاستنشاق — islamhouse.com (56:00)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.