{"id":28339,"date":"2018-04-04T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/covering-head-during-prayer-a-must\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:20:50","slug":"covering-head-during-prayer-a-must","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/covering-head-during-prayer-a-must\/","title":{"rendered":"Covering Head During Prayer: A Must?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Covering Head During Prayer<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Do I have to wear something on my head (turban or hat) while offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/guide-to-prayer\/\">prayer<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">It is well-known that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/category\/prophet-muhammad\/prophet-legacy\/\">the Prophet<\/a> (peace be upon him) was never seen without a head-covering. However, there is no an authentic hadith in the Sunnah that necessitates covering the head while offering prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The general principle is to wear clothes that are respectful during prayer. If in the culture you are in it is respectful to wear a head-covering (or disrespectful not to!), then do so out of an intention to be respectful to Allah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Regarding the ruling of covering the head while praying:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">1- The majority of scholars are of the view that it is merely permissible to cover your head during prayer. There is nothing wrong with praying without a turban because the head is not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/purification-2\/awrah-of-men-and-women-in-prayer\/\"><em>`awrah<\/em><\/a>, and it is not obligatory to cover it whilst praying, whether one is praying as an imam, praying alone or following an imam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">2- Imam Abu Hanifah had an opinion that it is disliked to offer prayer without covering head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">To get more information about the rulings of covering the head in prayer, you can watch this short video with Dr. Muhammad Salah.<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2GfUCtqtF4w\" width=\"620\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif;\"><em>Source: Huda Youtube Channel.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it permissible for an imam to lead a prayer with covering his head? What are the `awrah of men that should be covered while praying? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[6999,17411,17412,17413,17414,9979,7,1633,1732,687,1005,264,238,1661,14444,17415,17416,17417,17418],"class_list":["post-28339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayer-in-islam-2","tag-ask-about-prayer","tag-awrah-in-salat","tag-covering-head-in-prayer","tag-covering-head-in-salat","tag-delivering-khutbah-without-a-turban","tag-fatwas-of-prayer","tag-featured","tag-how-muslims-pray","tag-how-to-pray","tag-muhammad-salah","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-salat-in-islam","tag-wearing-hat-in-salat","tag-wearing-kufi-in-prayer","tag-wearing-something-on-head-while-praying","tag-wearing-turban-in-salat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Wearing-Something-on-Head-During-Prayer-A-Must-1-1.jpg?fit=5616%2C3744&ssl=1","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Wearing-Something-on-Head-During-Prayer-A-Must-1-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}