ANSWER:

Iftirash is a way of sitting down according to the sunnah. If you sit in any other way, the prayer is valid. 

If you don’t sit between the two prostrations, the prayer is invalid as you had missed a pillar. 

QUESTION: How to compensate the Salah if In hurry I didn’t sit properly in Iftirash ? & realise it later .How to rectify my mistake? Should I break my Salah & start it from the beginning?

Prayer | September 16, 2025 3:07 am
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QUESTION: If im praying and i yawn, do i pause whatever im doing and say audthu bilahi min aldhaytam alrajeem, and re-say the word i was saying when i yawned? Or ignore it?