{"id":6760,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/chanting-allahs-name\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:23","slug":"chanting-allahs-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/chanting-allahs-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Allah&#8217;s Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Through  the recent Book Fair being held in Expo Centre, Karachi, I came to know  about you and the books you wrote on Islam. I read two books of yours  and found very much correct. I not only appreciate but also admire your  works. I have a question which I want to ask from you and I know you  will answer it in the light of Quran and the sunnah.<\/p>\n<div>First  of all, I want to tell you something which is related to my question.  The Imam of the Masjid where I go for salah does &#8220;the vird (chanting) of  <em>ALLAHU<\/em>&#8221; all the time. He does this while shaking his head from  the neck and also asks his followers to do the same. According to my  knowledge about my religion, this is not proved through the whole life  of our beloved Holy Prophet (sws), the four Caliphs and then the  companions. Further, our Holy Prophet (sws) said: He who innovates  something in this matter of ours that is not of it, will have it  rejected.&#8221; (Transmitted by Al Bukhari &#038; Muslim).<\/div>\n<p>Now, my question is: Can I perform <em>salah<\/em> behind this Imam? Is it allowed to follow the Imam? What shall I do?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>As  long as a person is considered to be a Muslim and he prays the way  Muslims pray and is not famous for leading a life of sins, one can  follow him in the prayers. Wrong beliefs and wrong practices do not  disqualify a person from being Imam in prayers unless the wrong belief  is so extreme that takes the person out of the fold of Islam or the  practice is so wrong that totally changes the way the person prays.<\/p>\n<div>The practice you mentioned, as you said, has no basis in Islam and should not be followed as a religious practice.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Farhad Shafti<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-03<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6760\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through  the recent Book Fair being held in Expo Centre, Karachi, I came to know  about you and the books you wrote on Islam. I read two books of yours  and found very much correct. I not only appreciate but also admire your  works. I have a question which I want to ask from you and I know you  will answer it in the light of Quran and the sunnah.<\/p>\n<div>First  of all, I want to tell you something which is related to my question.  The Imam of the Masjid where I go for salah does &#8220;the vird (chanting) of  <em>ALLAHU<\/em>&#8221; all the time. He does this while shaking his head from  the neck and also asks his followers to do the same. According to my  knowledge about my religion, this is not proved through the whole life  of our beloved Holy Prophet (sws), the four Caliphs and then the  companions. Further, our Holy Prophet (sws) said: He who innovates  something in this matter of ours that is not of it, will have it  rejected.&#8221; (Transmitted by Al Bukhari &#038; Muslim).<\/div>\n<p>Now, my question is: Can I perform <em>salah<\/em> behind this Imam? Is it allowed to follow the Imam? 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