Common Beginner Mistakes

أخطاء شائعة للمبتدئين

Akhṭāʾ shāʾiʿah li-l-mubtadiʾīn

Gentle reminders as you build the habit of prayer.

Lesson display

Movement guidance

What to do

Every beginner slips. What matters is returning. A few common ones: rushing through the movements; praying without pause between postures; forgetting which rak‘ah you are on; feeling frustrated if you cannot pronounce Arabic perfectly. None of these break your prayer if made in sincerity.

Be careful of

Common mistakes

Speaking to yourself: ‘I will never get this right.’ — you will.
Skipping a prayer because you fear doing it wrong. Pray it anyway.
Comparing your prayer to others’. The Prophet ﷺ praised those who kept trying.