Prayer: Is prayer valid if one cannot pronounce the words correctly due to illiteracy or speech difficulty?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Prayer: Is prayer valid if one cannot pronounce the words correctly due to illiteracy or speech difficulty?
English:
Question #475:
Someone is thirty-five or forty years old. His parents did not teach him how to perform prayers. Although he is illiterate, he tried to learn how to say prayers in a correct way. The problem is that he cannot express the prayer’s words and dhikrs in a correct manner. Moreover, he is not able to pronounce some of its words at all. Are his prayers correct?
Answer #475:
His prayers are correct if he recites what he is able to.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer