Serious Situations Which May Need Attention during the Prayer

24-6-2002 | IslamWeb

Question:

Is there any situation which permits someone to interrupt the Prayer to attend to it?

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

The prayer is one of the most important obligations of Islam; it is the second pillar of Islam.

Thus, a Muslim has to perform his prayer with submission and attentiveness. It is prohibited to interrupt it unless there is some genuine cause.

The jurists state that one has to interrupt the prayer if he can save the life of someone who is facing confirmed death such as (1) one who seeks help to be saved from drowning; (2) to help someone against an unbeatable enemy; (3) or save him from a beast of prey, and (4) help someone who fell into a well, or a blind person in a fire.

If one interrupts his the prayer for one of the above-stated reasons and the like, he has to perform the whole prayer again without taking the previous prayer [or Rak’ah] into consideration, since such causes of interruption are not related to the prayer.

Allah knows best.