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Question about praying at the mosque?

What to do when someone behind you starts praying after the fard prayer? Can you cross?

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Assalamualaikum, you either walk around them or wait until they finish. You cannot walk in front of them, there should be a sutra (mandatory for prayer) which is something like a stick in the ground, a wall, a line on the rug that indicates a barrier between the one praying and the range of his prayer, and the space between the one praying and the sutra should be large enough for a sheep to pass between (or some animal like that mentioned in the ahadith). If you try to pass by force, the prayer has a right to push you away, if you try to cross again then the one praying has to fight you because then you would be a devil. That is what the Prophet (sallahallahu alaihi wasalam) said regarding people who get in front of others who are praying.

    So walk around or be patient and wait, this doesn't mean praying in the front row or one of the rows closer to the Imam is bad, the closer you are to the front row the more your reward will be for the prayer, the front row is the most rewarding, the next row is less rewarding, then the next row is less rewarding than that, etc. For women it is the opposite, the furthest row is most rewarding for them.

    wa salam.

  • 4 years ago

    Does God really put more values on somebody's prayers, if that person stands behind you or in front of you? Really, does He?

    I think God gives EQUAL, FAIR attention to everybody's prayers, regardless of what rows they pray in.

    Don't listen to Accepting Reality aka Danny. He will only confuse you. He is all about rewards only. Everything he does is for rewards only. He expects rewards as PAYMENTS for everything he does in life. He is spiritally materialistic, as he is that so obsessed with rewards. He is so much so that he does not know what life is all about. All his answers lack his heart. Have you noticed that?

  • 4 years ago

    Assalamu alaikum.Based on hadith if we finish fard prayer we are recommended to perform sunnah prayer two raka'ats except after Fajr fard prayer and after Ashr fard prayer.If someone behind us is still praying,you must wait until he has finished it or you must seek for another way to cross

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    You cannot cross on any salat

    You either wait or go round the side of them.

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    No.

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