Liaison office of Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Al Sistani (L.M.H.L) in London, Europe, North and South America.
1123. A person should maintain continuity during prayers, that is he
should perform various acts of prayers, like, Ruku, two Sajdah and tashahhud, in
continuous succession, and he should recite the Zikr etc. also in usual
succession. If he allows an undue interval between different acts, till it
becomes difficult to visualise that he is praying, his prayers will be void.
1124. If a person in namaz forgetfully allows a gap between letters,
or words, and if the gap is not big enough so that the form of the prayers is
disrupted, he should repeat those letters or words in the usual manner, provided
that he has not proceeded to the ensuing rukn. And he will repeat those lines
which were read in continuation. But if he has already got into the ensuing
rukn, then his prayers are in order.
1125. Prolonging Ruku and Sajdah, or reciting long Surahs, does not
break Muwalat.