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Question: prayer mats with hidden images
thare is a topic in online ' prayer mats with hidden images ' it shows images of living things like human,dog etc in prayer mats and thay say in prayer mats thay found hide in images on living things in prayer mats. so is it permissible to make pray or not in that prayer mats. or that is fake ! ?
 
 
Answered by: Ulamaa ID 04 (London)
Date: 08/08/2021 19:48pm

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الجواب حامداومصليا

To pray on a prayer mat that has images of living things like animals etc, it will be Makruh (disliked). It is severely disliked when it’s directly prayed on it.

كره عكسه عند عدم العذر ولبس ثوب فيه تماثيل ذي روح وأن يكون فوق رأسه أو بين يديه أو بحذائه يمنة أو يسرة أو محل سجوده تمثال ولو في وسادة منصوبة ولا مفروشة
(رد المحتار ،١/٦٤٨،سعيد)

(فتاوي محمودين ٦/٦٦٩)

And Allah knows best

23 Dhul Hijja 1442/ 02 August 2021
Mufti Qamruzzaman

London, UK
 
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