Beginning of the prayer

Prostration Bowing - Ruku

Going down to prostration

Prostration
Correct Manner
Raising both hands
upon entering the
prayer
1- Raise hands to the
shoulders, or parallel
to ears in four places,
as follows: upon
entering the prayer,
upon bowing in Ruku,
upon getting up for
the third Rakah of the
prayer.

Where to place the

hands while in
prayer?
2- Hold the wrist of
the left hand with the
right hand.
3- Place the right
palm on the left
forearm.
4- Place the right
palm over the left Incorrect Manner
palm. 5- Not raising the hands to the shoulders upon
entering into a prayer.
6- raising the hands above the head upon
saying Allahu Akbar.
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Description of bowing
7- The head and back should be leveled, 8
whilst placing both hands on the knee caps 9
and separate between fingers.

Mistakes while performing Ruku, bowing

8- Not pending the back enough. Too little
pending and a person is almost in the
standing up position.
9- Exaggerating the bowing down position
below the required level.
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Falling to prostration
10- Fall down to the floor with both knees
first, before placing the hands unless a
person can not do this to illness, old
disease or old age.
 11- Prostrate on the seven
prescribed parts of the
body; (both feet – both
knees – both hands
stretched facing the
Qiblah direction – both
the forehead and the 11
nose touching the floor.
• Direct the toes in the •
Qiblah direction.
• Make the thighs distant •
from the arms.
• Direct the fingers of both
hands in the Qiblah
•
direction.
• Do not place the forearms
close to the sides of the
body.

Prostration mistakes
12- Direct the toes to
other than the
Qiblah direction.
13- Playing with feet or
raising them of the 13 12
floor.
14- Placing the
forearms, along
with the palms on
the floor. (This is
similar to dog’s 15 14
sitting position).
15- Not placing the
entire palms firmly
on the floor.
Correct Manner
16- Sit between the two prostrations. Both
hands, with fingers close together
pointing towards Qiblah direction, 17
are placed on the thighs. 16
17- Place the left foot beneath you. Keep
the right foot in the upright position
while toes are pointing towards
Qiblah direction. Do the same during
prostration as well as in the first 18
sitting of Tashah-hud.
18- Placing both feet in the upright
position and sitting on them.

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How to sit for the final sitting in prayer
19- Sit on the left foot and let it protrude
beneath the right let, while placing the
right foot in the upright position and
sitting fully on the floor. 21
20- Place both left and right feet pointing
both to the right side of the body.

Mistakes while sitting

21- Placing both feet in the upright
position and sitting between
them.
22- Place the two feet on top of one
another and sit on them. 20

While in the first sitting, the right hand is

placed on the right thigh, while the little,
next and middle fingers of the hand is
closed, the middle finger and the them are
made into a circle and move the index
finger when saying the testimony phrase, 1
while looking at the index finger.
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