Doubts in Salaah

Doubting if one's salaah is valid

Q: While I was reading my asr salaah,my brother and i were reading together and i was imam,i felt a urine drop come out but i carried on and finished the salaah.After the salaah I checked to see if any urine drops came out but i didn't see anything. This incident happened a while ago but now I'm thinking that I need to repeat the salaah because I'm sure that a urine drop came out and after the salaah i didn't check my underpants properly.Do i need to repeat the salaah?

Doubts in salaah

Q:

1. If I make intention of namaaz aloud then I feel that it is not right so I make the intention aloud again. This causes uneasiness. What should I do?

2. In every namaaz I get a doubts of what rakaat it is. I just begin salaah and I start getting doubts. So should I sit for tashahud in all the rakaats and make sajda sahw?

3. Often I get doubts of whether it is 1st sajdah or 2nd sajdah. What must I do?

4. I have doubts whether I said the takbeer tahreema, takbeer, tashahud, durood Ebrahim etc. properly or maybe missed it out.

Doubts in salaah

Q: I lead the jamaat for asr salaah. In the second rakaat after surah fatiha, I'm not sure if I read another surah. I finished the salaah with this doubt in my mind. The maslah says that you must choose what your heart is more inclined to while you in salaah but when I read this salaah, I didn't know about this maslah. Should I make qadha of the salaah?

Forgetting in Salaah

Q: I am having difficulty in praying salah. I have some memory problem, sometimes I don't remember how many sajdah or rakats I do, I don't remember what I recite during salah, it takes me upto 3 times more time to pray a salah than a normal person and I am also very slow the way I do things, I have poor time management skill, each salah I have to do wudu and change my clothes because after urinating I get drop of urine comes out. So you can see I have to make alot effort and do many things to pray salah, would I be punish if I don't pray?

Doubts with regards to the number of rakaats performed

Q: In our local shopping centre there is a small prayer room. Three of us entered to pray zuhr salah and decided to pray in jammat. I was chosen to lead the prayer. We finished salah and went our separate ways. My question is this, after salah and returning home I kept feeling I prayed only 3 rakaats. I just couldn't get this feeling out of my mind. When we finished the other two never mentioned I only completed 3 rakat, so to tell you the truth I do not know whether I completed 3 or 4 rakaats. What must I do or should have done?

Doubts with regards to qiraat

Q: I suffer from OCD and during namaz I forget if I have read somthing, so I will start the namaaz over again or I will repeat what I think I forgot. Also sometimes I think I said somthing wrong and I will repeat that part until I think I said it right. It is so stressful for me to read namaz and doing this takes so much time. A simple asr namaaz that takes anyone else 5 maybe 10 minutes takes me around 20-30 minutes to read. This takes up so much time during the day I can never finish anything else. I need to know if I think I have forgotten somthing or said somthing incorrect what should I do because it is obviously not normal to take so long to pray even the simplest of namaz. I just can never tell what really happend and what is my doubts.

Doubts with regards to mistakes in Salaah

Q: I have constant waswas.

1. When I am reciting suras in salah or reciting tashahud sometimes the letters do not come out loud enough so I can hear. Is my Salaah still valid?

2. If I make a mistake in reciting in Salah how far do I go back to correct myself. Do I restart from one whole verse or just from where I made the mistake.

3. In tashahud I didn't say "warahmatullah hi barakatu" properly, so I went back to that bit and recited it again. Is the salaah valid?