The negating “la” instead of the emphatic “lam” in “وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُمْ”, and “مالُه” read as “مالَه”

Question

Zayd made three mistakes in the night prayer (‘isha’) over three days. (1) In the second part (juz’), in the third ruku‘, in the verse “ولنبلونكم بشيء من الخوف…” he recited the negating “la” (la al-nafy) instead of the emphatic “lam” (lam al-ta’kid), because of which the meaning was completely reversed. In Surah Tabbat Yada, in “ما أغنى عنه ماله”, he read “mal” with a fatha on the lam instead of a damma on the lam. In the 27th part (juz’), in Surah al-Rahman, after “خلق الإنسان من صلصال…

Answer

In some regions people read the fatha by drawing it out somewhat. This mistake happens to them unconsciously, because of which listeners think that the negating “la” has been recited instead of the emphatic “lam”. Because of the prevalence of ignorance, the later scholars (muta’akhkhirun) do not rule that the prayer is invalidated in such a case.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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