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| Question: I
have noticed that it is quite distracting when everyone shouts Amin during
the prayer. Why do we do this? It is not part of Surah Fatihah?
Answer: The word Amin means ‘I second it’. Uttering it after completion of Surah Fatihah seems very apt since the surah is a wonderful prayer. Authorities differ whether this should be said in the heart or loudly. It seems that it has been left to the circumstances in which a prayer is said. In congregational prayers, where most people are used to saying it loudly, one cannot help but bear it. Now, reaching the end of the surah marks a short pause before one goes on to recite some Qur’anic Surah. It is in this pause that Amin is required to be said. In such a case, a person should consider it to be something said in the pause and as such not feel distracted. (Siddiq Bukhary) |