❖ Ruling on Keeping the Gaze at the Place of Prostration During Salah ❖
Written by: Imran Ayyub Lahori
✦ Focus of the Gaze During Prayer
It is recommended and established from the Sunnah that during Salah, a worshipper should keep their gaze fixed at the place of prostration.
✦ Practice of the Prophet ﷺ
✔ When the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ would perform prayer,
“He would lower his head and fix his gaze toward the ground.”
✔ It is also authentically reported that:
“When the Prophet ﷺ entered the Kaʿbah, he did not raise his gaze from the place of prostration until he exited.”
📚 [For further details, refer to: Ṣifat Ṣalāt al-Nabī by Shaykh al-Albānī: p. 151]
✦ Wisdom Behind This Instruction
✔ Maintaining the gaze at the place of sujūd:
- Enhances khushūʿ (humility)
- Prevents distraction
- Aligns with the method of the Prophet ﷺ
✦ Conclusion
✔ It is Sunnah to keep one’s eyes fixed at the place of prostration throughout Salah.
✔ Avoiding distractions of the surroundings ensures greater concentration and spiritual focus.
