Matin Research Journal

Matin Research Journal

A Study of the Defect in the Intention of Prayers and Its Relations with the Rule of “No Resumption” Based on Imam Khomeini’s Approach

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Farahnaz Afzali Qadii
Assistant Professor, Department of the Sources of Islamic and Iranian Studies and Manuscripts, Tehran, Iran,
10.22034/matin.2021.285355.1879
Abstract
The daily prayer is a contractual composite with several parts and conditions,
some of which are pillars and some not. Intention is one of the pillars of the daily
prayers. Defect in the intention is sometimes related to the prayer as a whole
and sometimes it is related to its constituting parts only. The main objective of
this article is to study the viewpoints of some jurisprudents and Imam Khomeini
regarding the role of intention in prayers. Analytical-descriptive method has been
used in this research. The main question of this research is as follows: What is
the relationship between any defect in the intention of prayers and its invalidity?
The findings of the research show that intention means “the performance of the
prayers with the purpose of saying it and performing its constituting parts which
follows the will to say the prayers”. Any defect in the intention of the prayer
itself, leads to its invalidity. Regarding the constituting parts of the prayers, if
the worshipper at the time of deciding to say the prayers decides to perform its
constituting parts, the constituting parts will be parts of his mission, otherwise,
they will not be parts of the prayers and the prayers will be invalid. If defect in
the intention is related to the parts that are pillars of the prayers, it will lead to its
invalidity, but defect in the intention related to the parts that are not pillars, on the
basis of the “rule of no resumption”, will not lead to the invalidity of the prayers,
but invalidates that particular part and if possible its resumption is mandatory. But
if the worshipper enters the next pillar of the prayers, on the basis of the said rule,
it is not mandatory to compensate it and the prayers will be valid.
Keywords
defect
pillar
prayers
Rule of No Resumption
purpose
intention

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