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Does saying: "O Allah, grant me a visit to Mecca" or "O Allah, I find constriction in my chest, so expand my chest for me" during prostration invalidate the prayer?

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The prayer is not invalidated by the aforementioned supplication. Scholars have differed on the permissibility of a worshiper supplicating for worldly pleasures during prayer. Some, like the Hanbalis, believe that such a supplication invalidates the prayer, while others permit supplicating for whatever one wishes of the good of this world and the hereafter, citing the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud: "Then let him choose whatever supplication he likes most." Supplicating for matters related to the hereafter is preferable.

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