Humble - Honest - Honorable - Hardbitten Harangue
- Wearing pants, or garments that hangs below the ankles.
- Consuming food of bad smell such has garlic or onion, or smoking10 before coming to prayer.
- Proceeding to mosque for prayer with brisk walk, or even running for fear of missing part of the prayer.
- Saying Takbeer al-Ihram while in rukoo’.
- Mumbling the niyyah or intention, and uttering it in a low audible voice.
- Neglecting raising the hands in the opening takbeer of salah and before and after rukoo’, and upon standing up for the third rak’ah.
- Neglecting the opening du’a of prayer, t’awwudth, and basmalah.
- Neglecting praying facing a sutrah.
- Reluctance to stand in the front line in congregational prayer.
- Gazing upward during prayer, or looking at the imam, right or left.
- Leaving gaps in lines of congregational prayer.
- Reciting surat al-Fatiha fast without pausing after each verse.
- Fidgeting during prayer, or looking at a watch or fiddling with one’s fingers, clothes or moving feet or other parts of the body restlessly.
- Holding the Qur’an and reciting from it by the muqtadi in congregational prayer to check the imam’s recitation.
- Racing with the imam, or moving with or before him in congregational prayer.
- Lowering the head excessively, or pushing it up, and arching the back during rukoo’.
- Sticking the arms to the sides of the body, in rukoo’ or sujood, and sticking the belly to the thighs in sujood.
- Praying while part of the back is exposed.
- Neglecting ta’meen (to say ‘Aameen) loudly when the imam recites the concluding verse of surat al-Fatiha, “waladh-dhalleen”.
- Resting only the tip of the head on the floor during sujood.
- Hasty performance of prayer which does not allow repose and calmness in rukoo’ or sujood.
- Sitting in tawarruk position in the last rak’ah of Fajr and Jum’ah prayers.
- Moving the two palms upon saying, ‘assalamu aleikum warahmatul-lah’ to end prayer.
- Counting tasbeeh with the left hand.
- Shaking hands with other praying people right after fardh prayer is over, saying, ‘taqabbala-llah’, or ‘haraman’
- Raising hands for dua’ soon as prayer is over.
- Walking away right after tasleem, at the end of prayer, and neglecting dthikr.
- Crossing in front of a praying person.
- Neglecting prayer when one is sick or ill.
- Praying in a graveyard