What Is the Ruling of Remaining Motionless Between the Integrals of the Prayer?

Question:

What is the ruling of remaining motionless between the integrals of the prayer? What is meant by ‘motionless?’

Answer:

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

Remaining still (motionless as you referred to it) in the integrals of the prayer is necessary. Remaining still in the standing position after the bowing and the sitting position between the two prostrations is an emphasized sunna. [Shaykhi Zada, Majma’u al-Anhur]

What is meant by remaining motionless is a pause of stillness for the length of time it takes to say SubhanAllah, once. The purpose of the pause is to ensure the completion of the integrals. [Ibid.]

I hope this helps,
Allah knows best.
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch

Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch is a teacher of Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he then completed four years at the Darul Uloom seminary in New York where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences. He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he stayed for three years studying in Dar Al-Mustafa under some of the greatest scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib. In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Qur’an and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, and a number of texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.