Prayer: Using a Spring-Loaded Counting Turbah for Sujūd: Is It Valid?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Prayer: Using a Spring-Loaded Counting Turbah for Sujūd: Is It Valid?
English:
Question #495:
Recently a turbah for prayers has been manufactured that it counts the rak‘ahs and prostrations for the person praying and it removes doubt to some degree. Please clear the matter for us with your opinion, considering that when the forehead is placed on it, it moves down a little due to the presence of a metal spring beneath it. Is it correct to do prostration on it?
Answer #495:
If it is made of a material upon which it is correct to do prostration and after putting the forehead on it and pressing it down, it comes to a stable position, there is no problem in performing prostration on it.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer