Does frequent, rapid, and successive movement aimed at covering one's 'awrah invalidate the prayer, and must it be repeated if it is invalid?
Slight movement for the benefit of the prayer does not invalidate it. Raising the hand from the ground during prostration has a ruling we have explained previously. It appears that the questioner is afflicted with waswasah (obsessive whispering), so he must disregard it.
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