{"id":1079,"date":"2011-08-21T23:40:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T23:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2011-08-21T23:40:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T23:40:57","slug":"praying-salah-without-knowing-the-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/praying-salah-without-knowing-the-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying salah without knowing the translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a non-Arab does pray his salaat but don&#8217;t know the meanings of anything what he says in each part of\u00a0the salaat\u00a0(thus he merely recites what he has memorized without knowing the meanings), is his salaat valid ?<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A person\u2019s salah will be valid even though he may not know the meaning. As knowing the meaning of what you recite is not a condition of Salah being valid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only Allah Knows Best<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a non-Arab does pray his salaat but don&#8217;t know the meanings of anything what he says in each part of\u00a0the salaat\u00a0(thus he merely recites&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}