{"id":6706,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/reciting-surah-al-fateha-in-the-congregational-salah\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:31","slug":"reciting-surah-al-fateha-in-the-congregational-salah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/reciting-surah-al-fateha-in-the-congregational-salah\/","title":{"rendered":"Reciting Surah Al-Fateha In The Congregational Salah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Do we have to recite <em>surah fatiha<\/em> in the silent (<em>sirri)<\/em> and in the loud (<em>jahri<\/em> <em>salah)<\/em> behind the imam? If yes, then how in the loud (<em>jahri<\/em> <em>salah)<\/em> when the imam is concluding the prayer? <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Thank you for writing to us. When we are offering the Prayer behind an Imam we follow him. We do not actually need to recite <em>surah fatihah<\/em> for the Imam does that on our behalf. While in the <em>sirri<\/em> (which is whispered) prayer we can recite <em>surah<\/em> <em>Fatihah<\/em>. However, in <em>jahri<\/em> (recited aloud) prayer it is better we just listen to the Imam\u2019s recitation. Since it is not basically obligatory to recite <em>Surah<\/em> <em>Fatihah<\/em> in the <em>sirri<\/em> as well as <em>jahri<\/em> prayer before the <em>imam<\/em>, we are not required to recite it when we join the prayer late.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-27<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6706\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we have to recite <em>surah fatiha<\/em> in the silent (<em>sirri)<\/em> and in the loud (<em>jahri<\/em> <em>salah)<\/em> behind the imam? If yes, then how in the loud (<em>jahri<\/em> <em>salah)<\/em> when the imam is concluding the prayer? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158],"tags":[1448,1159],"class_list":["post-6706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-rituals","tag-fatiha","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reciting Surah Al-Fateha In The Congregational Salah - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/reciting-surah-al-fateha-in-the-congregational-salah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reciting Surah Al-Fateha In The Congregational Salah - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Do we have to recite surah fatiha in the silent (sirri) and in the loud (jahri salah) behind the imam? 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