Back to search

Is contemplating the supplication one intends to say during prostration in prayer considered permissible contemplation of the afterlife, or is it not permissible?

1 min readAlso available in العربية

Thinking about supplicating for worldly matters during prayer is disliked (makruh), whereas thinking about supplicating for matters of the afterlife is permissible (la haraj) according to some scholars. However, some of them consider anything that affects one's devotion (khushu') to be disliked, even if it pertains to the afterlife.

Summarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 2026

Read the full answer on Ftawy