Is the prayer of a congregant valid if he recites Al-Fatiha correctly, while praying behind an Imam who makes egregious grammatical errors (lahn jali) in Al-Fatiha, and advice has been ineffective with him?
The prayer of both the Imam and the congregants becomes invalid if the Imam makes a grammatical error (laḥn) in Al-Fatihah that alters its meaning and he does not correct it, because the prayer of the congregants is linked to the prayer of their Imam.
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