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Doorbell
rings while I am praying
Question:
If I am praying and somebody rings the doorbell, and nobody
is in the house except me, what shall I do?
Response:
If the prayer is a voluntary prayer, the matter is much easier
as there is nothing from preventing you from stopping your
prayer and seeing who is at the door. However, if it is an
obligatory prayer, then you should not rush your prayer unless
it is something very important that you fear will be missed.
If possible, you may alert the person at the door that you
are busy in prayer, by saying subhanAllaah for men or clapping
for women, that would be sufficient. The Prophet (sal-Allaahu
'alayhe wa sallam) said, "If anything happens to someone during
the prayer, the men should say subhanAllaah and the women
should clap." If you can make it clear to the one at the door
that you are in prayer, by the man saying subhaan-Allaah and
the woman clapping then you should do that. However, if that
will not help because the door is far away and the person
will not hear you, then there is no harm in you breaking off
the prayer, in particular if it is a voluntary prayer. If
it is an obligatory prayer, you should only do that if it
is expected that that is something very important. In that
case, you may break off the prayer and then repeat it from
its beginning afterwards.
And
all praises belong to Allaah.
Shaykh
Ibn Baaz
Fataawa al-Mar.ah
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