What is the ruling on a person leaning while praying, whether standing, between the two prostrations, or during the tashahhud?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, in the mosque during prayer, we find some people leaning on a small wall during the first tashahhud and the last tashahhud. What is the ruling on this?
The Shaykh : If it is.
The questioner : That is, he prays at the time of prayer and leans during the tashahhud and the sitting between the two prostrations, the first tashahhud and the last tashahhud, and when he is standing.
The Shaykh : He leans on the wall, I mean.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : As for leaning while standing in an obligatory prayer, it is disliked. If he would fall if the thing he is leaning on were removed, the prayer is invalid. As for leaning while sitting, it does not harm, because if he leans while sitting, he is not affected even if the thing he is leaning on is removed and he does not fall. However, it is better and more preferable for him to rely on himself. Do you understand now? Leaning while sitting is permissible, meaning a person may rest a little. As for leaning while standing, if it is in an obligatory prayer and it is a complete reliance such that if what he is relying on were removed, he would fall, then the prayer is invalid. From the left.
The Shaykh : If it is.
The questioner : That is, he prays at the time of prayer and leans during the tashahhud and the sitting between the two prostrations, the first tashahhud and the last tashahhud, and when he is standing.
The Shaykh : He leans on the wall, I mean.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : As for leaning while standing in an obligatory prayer, it is disliked. If he would fall if the thing he is leaning on were removed, the prayer is invalid. As for leaning while sitting, it does not harm, because if he leans while sitting, he is not affected even if the thing he is leaning on is removed and he does not fall. However, it is better and more preferable for him to rely on himself. Do you understand now? Leaning while sitting is permissible, meaning a person may rest a little. As for leaning while standing, if it is in an obligatory prayer and it is a complete reliance such that if what he is relying on were removed, he would fall, then the prayer is invalid. From the left.