What is the ruling on one who doubts the recitation of Al-Fatiha after commencing the Surah, then returns to a verse within it and completes his prayer? Is his prayer valid?
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If you complete reciting Al-Fatihah, believing in its correctness, then doubt an error in one of its verses after starting the next , this doubt has no effect, and you should not return to correct the suspected error. The prayer is not invalidated by returning to Al-Fatihah to correct a suspected verse, and you do not need to repeat it. Repeating Al-Fatihah or a verse from it is permissible if it is due to doubt about the mastery of the recitation. And whoever errs in a word from Al-Fatihah should repeat only that word and what follows it.
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