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When iam praying namaz after suratull al-fatiha and while praying if you do not know the sura can you pray from the book. thank you

 

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Holding quran in prayer

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

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Your Question: when iam praying namaz after suratull al-fatiha and while praying if you do not know the sura can you pray from the book.

Fiqh-us-Sunnah Fiqh 2.88

Dhakwan, the protege of 'Aishah, would lead her in (voluntary) prayer during Ramadan while reciting from a copy of the Qur'an.

Related by Malik.

 

Imam Shafei and Imam Abu Hanifah’s opinion is that reading the Quran from a book when in prayer is allowable. Imam An-Nawawi holds: "If one sometimes turns pages during a Salah, it does not invalidate it. If he looks at something that is written which is not the Qur'an and he reads it to himself, it does not invalidate the Salah, even if it is done for a long period of time, nevertheless, it is a hated act."  Imam Shafei has made a statement about it in Al-Imla'.

 

In light of the above evidence, the majority of the scholars state that there is absolutely no harm if one holds and recites from the Quran, regardless whether one is offering ones prayer alone or while in congregation. 

 

The scholars and jurists in Islam are unanimous in their opinion that one should only recite from the Quran what one has secured in one’s memory in one’s obligatory prayers, thus holding a copy of the Quran and reciting or reading from it during the obligatory prayers would not be permissible.  But there is absolutely no harm if one recites or follows the recitation of the ‘imam’ by holding a copy of the Quran in any voluntary prayer (Sunnah, Nawaafil, Tarawih, etc.). And Allah Alone Knows Best.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone.  Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

Burhan