The pillars and conditions of prayer

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Who must pray, 'awra, qibla, intention, then every pillar from the opening takbir to the final salam, and everything that invalidates prayer: the complete guide of the 4 schools.

Sources and references

• Coran 4:103
• Muslim 394
• Mawsu'at al-fiqh

Other pages of this pillar

• Prayer: status, times and making up
• How to perform wudu (ablution) step by step
• The times of the 5 daily prayers
• How to pray: step by step
• What invalidates the prayer and the prostration of forgetfulness
• The traveller's prayer: shortening and combining
• The Friday prayer
• Supererogatory prayers: rawatib, witr and duha
• The night prayer (tahajjud): time and method
• Group prayer and the rules of the imam
• Adhan and iqama: the call to prayer
• Tashahhud
• Prayer upon the Prophet within the prayer
• The sick person's prayer: concessions by capacity
• The prostration of recitation (sujud at-tilawa)
• The prostration of forgetfulness
• The eclipse prayer (salat al-kusuf)
• The drought prayer and rain seeking (istisqa)
• The mustahada: the woman with continuous bleeding
• Mosquee etiquette: rights and manners
• Qunut: in witr and in calamity
• Supererogatory prayers: rawatib, tarawih, witr and duha
• Invocations and dhikr after prayer
• Making up missed prayers (qada)
• The woman's prayer: specifics and concessions
• The 2 Eids' prayer (Eid al-fitr and al-adha)
• Prayer in planes, ships and transports
• Qibla: the prayer direction and finding it
• The Fatiha and recitation in prayer
• Prayer clothing: the intimate zone (awra)
• The prostration of gratitude (sujud ash-shukr)
• Waswasa and obsessive doubt in prayer and ablution
• Friday sunnas: ghusl, perfume and the answered hour
• The prayer of fear (during battle)
• The tasbih prayer
• Istikhara: the prayer of consultation
• Combining 2 prayers

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