This is an innovation. Intention is done in the heart. When you want to eat an apple in front of you, you simply intend it without saying in your mind, “I want to eat this apple”.

How to make niyyah before every prayer if saying in mind or verbally is an innovation? Just say iqama and pray?

Innovations | September 12, 2016 2:18 pm
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Regarding frames that have the names of Allah on them, u said it’s not permissible to hang them up, so what do we do to dispose them off? And is there any hadith that prohibits us to hang them?
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I see some imaams during the fajr prayer in the second rak’ah after the recitation of al fatihah and the next surah, they keep quite for like a minute, is this sunnah or bid’ah and if it is correct what should one say during that pause?