Does the prayer of one who does not settle in it become invalid?
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The questioner : The first question: There is a hadith in *Sahih al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib* that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: In these days, many people do not complete the bowing... and they peck at the prayer. So, is the ruling on his prayer... invalid based on this hadith?
The Shaykh : The reality is that this issue is important, so you must describe to us that prayer you are asking about, whether it is invalid or not. What is its description?
The questioner : Its description is that he is in the state of bowing, but his back is in the...
The Shaykh : Ah, I understand now. Yes, this is not a valid prayer.
The questioner : So is his prayer invalid?
The Shaykh : His prayer is invalid, but the responsibility for these people falls on the scholars who remain silent about their errors and do not teach them. They see these common people pecking at the prayer, just as the one who performed his prayer poorly did, where he did not settle in it, so he (peace be upon him) ordered him to repeat the prayer the first, second, and third time until the man realized that he did not know how to pray properly. He then admitted and said: O Messenger of Allah, I do not know how to do anything else, so teach me. He (peace be upon him) then told him the well-known hadith. And the hadiths are explicit in invalidating the prayer of one who does not settle in the bowing and prostration and so on. So we must teach these people before we hold them accountable. Yes, anything else.
A man may pray for sixty years, and Allah does not accept his prayer if he does not complete the bowing and does not complete the prostration.
إنَّ الرجل ليصلي ستين عامًا لا تقبل الله له صلاة يتم الركوع ولا يتم السجودThe Shaykh : The reality is that this issue is important, so you must describe to us that prayer you are asking about, whether it is invalid or not. What is its description?
The questioner : Its description is that he is in the state of bowing, but his back is in the...
The Shaykh : Ah, I understand now. Yes, this is not a valid prayer.
The questioner : So is his prayer invalid?
The Shaykh : His prayer is invalid, but the responsibility for these people falls on the scholars who remain silent about their errors and do not teach them. They see these common people pecking at the prayer, just as the one who performed his prayer poorly did, where he did not settle in it, so he (peace be upon him) ordered him to repeat the prayer the first, second, and third time until the man realized that he did not know how to pray properly. He then admitted and said: O Messenger of Allah, I do not know how to do anything else, so teach me. He (peace be upon him) then told him the well-known hadith. And the hadiths are explicit in invalidating the prayer of one who does not settle in the bowing and prostration and so on. So we must teach these people before we hold them accountable. Yes, anything else.
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