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**IssuessBratte** · 05-07-2011, 05:43 AM

Salam

regarding praying with a picture in front of you. obviously you try to avoid it. but if you're in desperate circumstances or there is nothing you can do about it your salah is valid.

I asked one of Mufti Ebrahim Desai's students (who was a mufti) regarding this because in my high school i was the only muslim and when i prayed dhuhr i had to go to the office and pray. alhamdullillah the vice-principle, and principle were very accommodating and would let me pray in their offices as there was no where else to pray. unfortunately in one of the offices right in the direction of qiblah there was a picture of a farmer tending his ...get this....PIGS.

now i knew praying with an image in front of you was not the proper way to pray, and the fact that there was a pig's image made it that much worse. the Mufti said that regardless the salah offered even with an image in front of me (and that too of a pig) was valid. and that i could continue praying there as there was basicly now where else i could pray in the school.

05-07-2011, 05:43 AM	#37
IssuessBratte Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 607 Senior Member	Salam regarding praying with a picture in front of you. obviously you try to avoid it. but if you're in desperate circumstances or there is nothing you can do about it your salah is valid. I asked one of Mufti Ebrahim Desai's students (who was a mufti) regarding this because in my high school i was the only muslim and when i prayed dhuhr i had to go to the office and pray. alhamdullillah the vice-principle, and principle were very accommodating and would let me pray in their offices as there was no where else to pray. unfortunately in one of the offices right in the direction of qiblah there was a picture of a farmer tending his ...get this....PIGS. now i knew praying with an image in front of you was not the proper way to pray, and the fact that there was a pig's image made it that much worse. the Mufti said that regardless the salah offered even with an image in front of me (and that too of a pig) was valid. and that i could continue praying there as there was basicly now where else i could pray in the school.
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