Praying Salat behind non-Sunni

Wa’ laykum-assalam, wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu,

Thank you for your Question.

Indeed the salaah behind a misguided person or a misbeliever carrying misbelieve is invalid. It is waajib-ul-i’aadah, and must be repeated. This includes any salaah. This is the ruling of the major scholars of the Ahl as-Sunnah wa'l Jamaa’ah.

If you know someone to be a ‘ghustakh’ and knowingly read your salaah behind them then you would have to repeat your salaah. However, if you did not know, but later found out that they were ‘ghustakh’, then it is okay as not knowing and forgetting sometimes has the similar weighting.

It is best to continue in not praying salaah behind them. Alternatively you may look for a Sunnï Masjid. You may be aware of some of the Sunni signs, a Sunni Mosque entails.

Facing upto the falsehood with the truth is the jihad. Just as a Mujahid faces his enemy at war. Your duty is to raise the word of Allah, and not any other purpose, to fight for what is right and to forbid what is wrong, by the means of Qur’an, Hadith, and Tafsir.



May Allah keep you firm on this road, and give you reward for both this world, and the hereafter.



Wassalam.

M Waseem Ashrafi