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Sha'l'khul-IsUm Ib" Taymi'l'ab ,ays:lk PRAYER"T!.is is Ihe way in which II,e Rightly-Guided Caliphs have performedprayer. 11 could Iwppen Ihal Iller le"d people in prnyer and when Iheyknew Ihat they had bWI jl""'& afrer the prnyer was finished, Iheywo"ld perform II"ir prnyer again mid wo"ld not order tho$e led inprayer to perform pr~rer again. If the imam or tho,e led in prayerknew that he was in a stare of rilual impurity or that there WIll imf-uremmter present during the prayer, their prayer would be invalid."'The imamate of the illiterate person is invalid. Illiterate here mean, tbeone who d"", nOt memoriu the Sura of AI-FJtib.ah (the Opening Chapterof the Quriln) or memoriles it but recites it improperly, such as makinggratnmatkal mistakes in words, which change their meaning. The", mistakesinclude, for exam ple, saying, "... upon whom r h"'·e b