Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ The ruling on the person being led in prayer behind the imam from the Sharia point of view ]
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Our scholars have agreed that the imam should not carry on behalf of the person being led in prayer any of the obligatory prayers except recitation. However, they differed in that matter. Some say that the person being led reads with the imam in what he recites in secret and does not read with him in what he says aloud, and some say that he does not read with him at all, and some say that he reads with him in what he says aloud. He recited the Umm al-Kitab and others, and while he recited the Umm al-Kitab only, I say it, and some of them made a difference in aloud between the one who hears the imam reciting and the one who does not hear, so he made it obligatory for the person being led in prayer to recite if he did not hear, and forbade it if he heard, and what I came to after the obligation of reciting al-Fatihah for every worshiper, whether imam or non-imam, is that If he recites it in himself, it is better, unless it is such that the imam can hear it. Listening and listening t