Makroohaat-e-Namaaz

Q. How many things are makrooh (detested) in prayers?

A. Some of the makroohaat in salaah are:

• Sadal, or hanging of cloth improperly
• To sweep with hands to prevent clothes from soiling
• Playing with clothes or body parts
• Saying prayers in disliked clothes
• Prayers with a coin or object in the mouth
• Praying bare-headed (men)
• Praying when needing the bathroom
• Gathering hair into a pig-tail
• Removing pebbles in sajdah (allowed once)
• Cracking fingers or putting fingers inside fingers
• Hands over waist or back hips
• Turning face away from Qiblah
• Sitting like a dog (hands on ground)
• Arms/wrists on ground in sajdah (men)
• Praying while another person sits in front
• Replying to greetings with head/hand motion
• Sitting cross-legged without excuse
• Yawning knowingly without restraint
• Closing eyes unnecessarily (allowed if focusing heart)
• Imaam standing under mihraab (arch)
• Imaam standing alone one handspan high
• Standing alone behind a row with vacant front space
• Praying in clothes with living pictures
• Praying under/near pictures on wall or sajdah place
• Counting aayaat, surahs, or tasbeehs on fingers
• Praying with sheet/clothes wrapped tightly
• Yawning and stretching arms to remove laziness
• Sajdah on turban rolls
• Doing something against Sunnah in prayer