What are the mistakes made in qira’ah in prayer? What kind of qira’ah mistakes invalidate prayer?
- Is the prayer of a person accepted if he makes pronunciation mistakes in qira’ah?
- I do not know Arabic and I do not know the Quran. I wonder if my previous prayers were accepted.
Dear Brother / Sister,
If a person makes a mistake of i’rab while reading the Quran, his prayer is not invalidated even if the meaning changes. For, the majority of the people cannot discriminate among the forms of i’rab like reading the word "Ibrahima" as "Ibrahimu" or the word "Rabbuhu" as "Rabbahu" or the word "Na'budu" as "Na'badu".
The prayer of a person is not invalidated if he pronounces a letter of a word that does not have shadda with shadda (that is, by doubling the consonant) or a letter that has shadda without shadda (that is, by pronouncing a double consonant only once), not to lengthen a vowel that needs to be lengthened, or to lengthen a short vowel, to read to letters that need to be united separately or to unite the letters that need to be pronounced separately like pronouncing the word "Iyyaka" without shadda as “Iyaka”. Making imala (lengthening) unnecessarily does not invalidate prayer, like reading "Bismillahi" or "Maliki yawmid-din" with imala.
The same thing is valid related to pronouncing a back consonant as a front consonant or vice versa because the majority of the people have difficulty in pronouncing them.
Questions on Islam
- Will you give information about the mistakes made in qira’ah in prayer (dhallatul-qari)?
- Do mistakes that are made while reading a chapter invalidate prayer? Does sajdah as-sahw become necessary if a person makes a mistake and starts to read the chapter again?
- Is prayer invalidated if a chapter or supplication is read wrongly; is it permissible to start reading again from the beginning?
- Why are there differences in the copies of the Quran? Allah said something; then, He said something else.
- Should qira’ah be aloud when an evening prayer that has been missed is performed as qada during the day?
- Could it be possible that the versions of the seven letters in the Quraysh dialect have not survived to the present day?
- Is prayer invalidated if somebody skips a verse in qira’ah or if he pronounces a different letter instead of a letter ("sin" instead of "tha")?
- Is prayer invalidated if a person repeats the verses in a prayer? Is prayer invalidated if a person who is performing a prayer individually returns three or four times and repeats the same word so as to pronounce a word in a verse correctly?
- How long should the chapters to be read in congregational prayers be? Is it permissible to read long chapters?
- Do the sounds like "Ah, oh, uh" that are produced involuntarily while breathing due to tiredness in prayer invalidate wudu?
