Can you give some information about passing in front of someone who is performing salah in the mosque?
Dear Brother / Sister,
It is not wrong to pass in front of the columns. For, they serve as sutrahs.
The salah does not become invalid when someone passes in front of the sajdah place of person who is performing salah; however the person who passes becomes sinful.
The place where it is sinful for someone to pass in front of a person who is performing the salah is the part between the feet of the person performing salah and the point that he/she prostrates in big mosques and in an open area. In small mosques, it is makruh to pass in front of the person performing salah if there are not any obstacles such as a column, a person, etc between him/her and the one performing salah.
Actually, it is sunnah for a person performing salah to put a sutrah in front of him/her if it is possible for someone to pass in front of him/her.
A little child is not held responsible if he passes in front of a praying person nor any other sins if he/she is under the age of responsibility.
Questions on Islam
- Is it forbidden to form a rank (saff) between two columns in a prayer? It is said that there is a hadith about it.
- Is it permissible to stand up and leave if someone is performing a prayer behind you?
- Things that invalidate prayer
- The Sunnahs of Prayer
- If a person is disturbed in prayer, can he say stop with a hand signal?
- In what case does Allah not accept a salah performed by a person?
- Can we perform salah by standing against someone’s face? At work, if there is no other place to perform salah, is it makruh to perform salah by standing against someone’s face? If I put a chair between us, can this eliminate the problem?
- Is it permissible to recite surah al-Ikhlas between sunnah and fard of a salah (prayer) in the mosque?
- How many missed (qada) can be performed the most a day? If a person who did not perform salah for ten years wants to perform them as qada and performs a hundred missed prayers a day, are these salahs accepted?
- Jama’ah Salah (Prayer in Congregation)
