Miftah-ul-Janna (Booklet for way to Paradise)

11– To have a picture –photograph– on your body or clothes.
12– To yawn without any ’udhr to do so.
13– To perform namâz with your hands inside your sleeves.
14– To sit with your shins erect, like dogs.
15– To close your eyes.
16– To turn your hands away from the direction of Qibla.
17– When performing namâz in jamâ’at, to perform it in a rear
line while there is room enough (at least for one person) in a line
before it. Itis tanzîhî (or tenzîhî) kerâhat (makrûh) if there is (at
least) one person with you in that rear line, and tahrîmî kerâhat
when there is no one else doing the same thing. In the latter case,
you will have omitted something which is wâjib; that error can be
repaired only by reperforming the namâz.
18– To perform namâz against a grave without (something like)
a barrier between you and the grave.
19– To perform namâz against najâsat. (Najâsat is explained in
detail in the sixth chapter of the fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss.)
20– For a man and a woman to perform different namâzes side
by side.
21– To perform namâz while you feel an urge for going to the
toilet.
22– After straightening up from the Rukû’, to go down for the
Sajda by putting your hands on the floor before (putting your
knees on the floor), without an ’udhr compelling you to do so.
23– To relieve an itch on any part of your bdy twice within one
rukn, (which begins with the beginning of one standing position
and ends with the beginning of another. Your namâz will be fâsid
if you raise your hand three times and do the scratching three
times, and in that case you will have to reperform the namâz.)
24– To bend down for the Rukû’ before the imâm does so, (if
you are performing namâz in jamâ’at.)
25– To straighten up from the Rukû’ before the imâm does so.
26– To prostrate yourself for the Sajda before the imâm does
so.
27– To rise from the Sajda before the imâm does so.
28– To get up in support of something around you, unless you
have an ’udhr making it inevitable.
29– As you rise from the Sajda, to detach your knees before
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