{"id":26201,"date":"2022-09-27T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T11:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=26201"},"modified":"2022-09-27T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T11:38:30","slug":"is-salaah-not-valid-if-both-feet-do-not-touch-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/is-salaah-not-valid-if-both-feet-do-not-touch-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Salaah Not Valid if Both Feet Do Not Touch the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 06270<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: Alimah Zakiratul Hoque<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">During salah, when standing my feet may move back after rising from sujood so that a part of them hangs off the back of my prayer mat, and so the feet are not fully touching the ground. Does this invalidate the salah, even if a tiny amount of the feet are not touching the ground?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">During Salah, both feet should be on the ground (Fatwa Tatarkhania, Vol 2, Pg 208). This is like the ruling that the forehead must be on the ground during Sujood (Fatwa Tatarkhania, Vol 2, Pg 125). In the case of Sujood, one can perform it on material as long as it is not thick (Fatwa Tatarkhania, Vol 2, Pg 126). Similarly, as long as you can feel the ground beneath your through the prayer mat (as is the case with most prayer mats), your prayer would remain valid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Therefore, your Salah would not be invalidated if a portion of your feet are not directly touching the ground, as long as the prayer mat is not so thick that you cannot feel the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u0648<\/strong> <strong>\u064a\u0643\u0631\u0647<\/strong> <strong>\u0627\u0644\u0642\u064a\u0627\u0645<\/strong> <strong>\u0628\u0625\u062d\u062f\u064a<\/strong> <strong>\u0627\u0644\u0642\u062f\u0645\u064a\u0646<\/strong> <strong>\u060c<\/strong> <strong>\u0648<\/strong> <strong>\u064a\u0643\u0631\u0647<\/strong> <strong>\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0648\u062d<\/strong> <strong>\u0628\u064a\u0646<\/strong> <strong>\u0627\u0644\u0642\u062f\u0645\u064a\u0646<\/strong> <strong>\u0641\u064a<\/strong> <strong>\u0627\u0644\u0635\u0644\u0627\u0629<\/strong> <strong>\u0625\u0644\u0627<\/strong> <strong>\u0628\u0639\u0630\u0631<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u0648<\/strong> <strong>\u0623\u0645\u0627<\/strong> <strong>\u0641\u0631\u0636<\/strong> <strong>\u0627\u0644\u0633\u062c\u0648\u062f<\/strong> <strong>\u0641\u064a\u062a\u0623\u064a<\/strong> <strong>\u0628\u0648\u0636\u0639<\/strong> <strong>\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0628\u0647\u0629<\/strong> <strong>\u0623\u0648<\/strong> <strong>\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0646\u0641<\/strong> <strong>\u0648<\/strong> <strong>\u0627\u0644\u0642\u062f\u0645\u064a\u0646<\/strong> <strong>\u0641\u064a<\/strong> <strong>\u0642\u0648\u0644<\/strong> <strong>\u0623\u0628\u064a<\/strong> <strong>\u062d\u0646\u064a\u0641\u0629<\/strong> <strong>\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0647<\/strong> <strong>\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u0648<\/strong> <strong>\u0644\u0648<\/strong> <strong>\u0633\u062c\u062f<\/strong> <strong>\u0639\u0644\u064a<\/strong> <strong>\u0643\u0648\u0631<\/strong> <strong>\u0639\u0645\u0627\u0645\u062a\u0647<\/strong> <strong>\u0642\u064a\u0644<\/strong> <strong>: <\/strong><strong>\u0625\u0646\u0645\u0627<\/strong> <strong>\u064a\u062c\u0648\u0632<\/strong> <strong>\u060c<\/strong> <strong>\u0625\u0630\u0627<\/strong> <strong>\u0644\u0645<\/strong> <strong>\u064a\u0643\u0646<\/strong> <strong>\u063a\u0644\u064a\u0638\u0627<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only Allah knows best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Written by Alimah Zakiratul Hoque<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 06270 &nbsp; Answered by: Alimah Zakiratul Hoque &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; During salah, when standing my feet may move back after rising from sujood&#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":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26295,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26201\/revisions\/26295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}