Things Which Invalidate The Prayer

Prayer is performed well with due regard to its conditions pillars, duties and preferred acts truly illuminates the heart and purifies the soul.

It is the means by which man communicates with "Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala" and therefore, one should keep it free from any thing which would render it invalid.

 In Arabic language, acts which invalidate the prayer are know as"Mubdilatu-Salaat"  and we now list them here below:

1. Speaking or talking in the course of the prayer.

2. Laughing in the course of the prayer.

 3. Eating while praying, even though what is eaten maybe small as a piece of dates.

4. Drinking while praying, even though what is drank maybe as small as  taking only a mouthful.

5. If someone in the course of the prayer remembers that he/she did not actually perform the ablution (Wudhu),  then such a person is required to break the  prayer and get out to perform Wudhu.

6. If a person's ablution(Wudhu) gets invalidated in the coast of the prayer, then the prayer becomes invalid.

7. The prayer is also invalidated by carrying out the Rukuu and Sujuud postures with haste and without ease. While in prostration, bobbing ,(jerking) up and down like chicken pecking food from the ground is not allowed.

8. Turning oneself away from the direction of the Qiblah also invalidates the prayer.