{"id":6895,"date":"2024-07-10T07:44:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/praying-in-a-room-with-pictures-on-walls\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:48:57","slug":"praying-in-a-room-with-pictures-on-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/praying-in-a-room-with-pictures-on-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying In A Room With Pictures On Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Can I offer salah in a room with pictures or photographs in the room?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>We  believe that presence of pictures in the room where we pray does not  harm the prayer. However, we should try not to keep something  distracting in front of us while praying. Anas (rta) narrates that  \u2018A\u2019ishah (rta) had hung a curtain in the house. When the Prophet saw it,  he asked her to remove it because the pictures [imprinted on it] kept  coming before him during the prayer.[<em>Bukh\u0101r\u012b<\/em>, No: 367]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-05<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6895\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I offer salah in a room with pictures or photographs in the room?<\/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":[2643,1620,1159,1402],"class_list":["post-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-rituals","tag-art","tag-picture","tag-prayer","tag-salah"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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