Stammer

Stuttering, also known as stammering, is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words, or phrases as well as involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the person who stutters is unable to produce sounds. The term stuttering is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encompasses the abnormal hesitation or pausing before speech, referred to by people who stutter as blocks, and the prolongation of certain sounds, usually vowels or semivowels. According to Watkins et al., stuttering is a disorder of "selection, initiation, and execution of motor sequences necessary for fluent speech production".

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Speech . Qur'an . Salah (Prayers) . Stammer

I have a neurological stammer, a speech disorder, as a result of which reciting the Quran in Salah is really difficult and stressful. It takes me a minute to say one word. Is it permissible to recite the Quran in my mind rather than aloud during prayers?

Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 4 years ago

It is obligatory to recite in the first and second Rak'at of every Prayer, Sura Al-Hamd and another Sura. Reciting must be by your tongue and not in your mind only. If you have difficulty in reciting, you should recite in the way which you can, even if it is not perfectly correct, as far as it is the best that you can. Remembering the Sura in your mind is not reciting. Those who totally paralysed should remember the Sura in their mind because that are totally unable to move their tongue nor their lips, but as you are able to move your tongue and lips, you must recite the Sura in the way which you can.

Wassalam.