Can a mobile used for haram render salaah invalid?
Question
Hazrat, I wanted to ask if someone uses their cell phone for haram – for example to watch pornography, or speaks to non-mahram women, and has the phone in his pocket whilst performing salah.
Is the salah valid?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
Yes, his Salaah will be valid. However if the phone in his pocket will distract his focus and attention in salaah, then he should keep his cellphone elsewhere.[i]
And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best
Aboobakr Siddeeq bin Mufti Amjad Mohammad
Student Darul Iftaa
Azaadville, JHB, South Africa
Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.
References (Arabic / Urdu sources)
[i]
(كعبثه بثوبه وبدنه) لانه ينافي الخشوع الذي هو روح الصلاة فكان مكروها [حاشية الطحطاوي ١\٤٦٦] دار قباء
وإن كان المراد قراءة القرآن، فإنما كره رفع الصوت بها؛ لأنه ينافي الخشوع
المحيط البرهاني للإمام برهان الدين ابن مازة – ٥\١٤٤]]
( يكره للمصلي أن يعبث بثوبه ) لقوله ( صلى الله عليه وسلم ) : ' إن الله كره لكم العبث في الصلاة ' ، ولأنه
يخل بالخشوع [الإختيار لتعليل المختار – ١\٦٧]
قَالَ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ ( وَتَغْمِيضُ عَيْنَيْهِ ) لِقَوْلِهِ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ { إذَا قَامَ أَحَدُكُمْ إلَى الصَّلَاةِ فَلَا يُغْمِضْ عَيْنَيْهِ } ؛ وَلِأَنَّهُ يُنَافِي الْخُشُوعَ
[تبيين الحقائق شرح كنز الدقائق – ٢\٢٧٩]
- Answered by
- Aboobakr Siddeeq bin Mufti Amjad Mohammad
- Checked & approved by
- Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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