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is wajib or, without making an ablution, if he does something breaking the namaz, e.g. makes the
salam, his namaz will be complete.
23 - If a person omits one rukn and does not perform it during the namaz, his namaz becomes
nullified.
24 - If a person begins and finishes a rukn before the imam begins it, his namaz becomes
nullified. But if the imam begins the rukn later and they finish it at the same time, or if he gives
up making that part of the namaz before the imam begins the rukn and then, when the imam
begins the rukn, makes the rukn again together with the imam, the namaz does not become
nullifed, yet it is makruh. If a person begins a rukn after the imam has finished it, his namaz will
be acceptable.
25 - One who misses the first rakat of the jamaat is called a masbuk. If a masbuk, after having set
as long as (to say the prayer called) the tashahhud and before the imam makes the salam, stands
and makes sajda and then sees the imam making sajda-i sahw and if he, too, makes the sajda-i
sahw with the imam, his namaz is nullified. Without following the imam, he makes the sajda-i
sahw after completing his namaz. If he stood but did not make the sajda, it is wajib for him to sit
and make the sajda-i sahw with the imam.
26 - If a person who forgot to make the sajda remembers it during the ruku' or during the sajda,
he prostrates and makes the sajda right after the ruku, or after sitting after the regular sajda, he
makes the ruku' and the sajda again. Then he makes the sajda-i sahw. Or, at the end of or during
the final sitting he makes the sajda which he remembered or which he remembers during the
final sitting, then he sits again and says the Tahiyyat, and then makes the sajda-i sahw. If he does
not sit again, his namaz becomes nullified.
27 - If a person does not perform again the rukn that he performed while sleeping, his namaz
becomes nullified.
28 - If during the takbirs in namaz a person prolongs the first hamza (A) when saying "Allahu,"
his namaz becomes nullified. If he prolongs it when beginning namaz, his beginning the namaz
is not sahih.
29 - If saying the ayats melodiously changes the meaning, it nullifies namaz, too. To recite the
Qur'an melodiously means to prolong its letters in order to tune them to musical notes. For
example, it changes the meaning to prolong the letter (a) as in "Alhamd-u-lillahi rabbil."
Likewise, saying "Rabbanalakalhamd," as some muazzins do, changes the meaning. For rab
means stepfather; so instead of saying, "We thank our Allah," they say, "We thank our
stepfather." If the meaning is not changed, namaz does not become nullified. But if you extend
such vowels as Alif, Waw and Ya too long, namaz becomes nullified, even if the meaning is not
changed. As seen, if saying the words melodiously does not change their meaning, if the letters
are not prolonged as long as two letters, and if it is intended to beautify the voice and to
embellish the recitation, it is permissible. In fact, it is mustahab to do so when performing namaz
as well as when not performing namaz.
It is written in the fatwa of Abussuud Effendi: "If the imam's singing becomes 'amal-i kasir, or if
he prolongs one letter as long as three letters, his namaz becomes nullified. To say something
melodiously means to sing it, to repeat your voice in your larynx so as to produce various
sounds."
30 - An incorrect recitation nullifies namaz. The error may happen in four different ways. The
first error involves i'rab, that is, it takes place in the vocalization or absence of letters. For
instance, when you don't double the letter with the shadda or when you say the prolonged ones
too quickly, and vice versa.
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