God says, “There is no god but I. Mine is dominion and praise is mine.” His servant believes, and from here his name is “the believer” and others like him. If the truth does not say any of that until the servant says it, then the servant is more worthy of being followed. It is not for the person praying behind him to precede his imam with any of the actions of prayer or even its words. In reciting Al-Fatihah, he does not have the right to begin it if he recites it aloud until he finishes it, or he follows the imam’s pauses in it, so he recites what the imam has finished, while the imam is silent, and in the secret prayer, he recites it according to what he most likely thinks, except in the prayer after the middle session, in which case he recites it starting.