[BoBoMasterDesign]

Is crying in salah encouraged and to what extent? If a person cry's too loud or too emotionally, can it invalidate the salah? I understand that some people's hearts are softer than other, but is it still preferred to be moderate in your crying rather than bawl your eyes out?

Also, is it ok to pray behind imam who cries to such an extent that it disrupts there recitation and makes it hard to understand?

[hitaEtela]

In the Hanafi madhhab, calmness in salah is extremely important. Crying excessively can break one's salah - unless it is done without control due to the remembrance of Allah . Forcing cries (i.e. yelling and screaming that people sometimes do during salah) would break salah (e.g. some people like to do this because they hear the imam crying). If cries come involuntarily, that is another thing and is actually a good thing.

I don't think any imam makes a habit out of crying too much...they shouldn't let their crying affect their recitation and if it does, they should repeat the verse properly.

[BoBoMasterDesign]

In the Hanafi madhhab, calmness in salah is extremely important. Crying excessively can break one's salah - unless it is done without control due to the remembrance of Allah . Forcing cries (i.e. yelling and screaming that people sometimes do during salah) would break salah (e.g. some people like to do this because they hear the imam crying). If cries come involuntarily, that is another thing and is actually a good thing.

I don't think any imam makes a habit out of crying too much...they shouldn't let their crying affect their recitation and if it does, they should repeat the verse properly.

Jazakallah abdulwahhab.

[Forexampleee]

Is crying in salah encouraged and to what extent? If a person cry's too loud or too emotionally, can it invalidate the salah? I understand that some people's hearts are softer than other, but is it still preferred to be moderate in your crying rather than bawl your eyes out?

Also, is it ok to pray behind imam who cries to such an extent that it disrupts there recitation and makes it hard to understand?

Crying is ghair ikhtiyari, involuntarily happens (except maybe in the case of women, Hakeem ul Ummat jokingly used to say that he thinks they possibly have total control over it

Crying is nothing to chase after. More importantly you should try to bring khushu and khudhu in the salaah. Dont do any movements of the physical body that are against the sunnah way of making salaah and dont voluntarily bring any other thoughts in your heart other than that you are looking at Allah swt and Allah swt is looking at you.