Looking at written words and understanding them silently does not by itself invalidate prayer in the rule taught here.
This must be kept separate from the earlier technical invalidator concerning reciting from a Mushaf what one has not memorized under Abu Hanifah's position.
So the questions are different:
1. Did the person merely look and understand silently?
2. Or did the person actually use the written text as a source of recitation?
The course now keeps these two issues separate.
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Permissible Acts in Prayer and When Prayer May or Must Be Stopped
Looking at written words and understanding them silently does not by itself invalidate prayer in the rule taught here.
This must be kept separate from the earlier technical invalidator concerning reciting from a Mushaf what one has not memorized under Abu Hanifah's position.
So the questions are different:
1. Did the person merely look and understand silently?
2. Or did the person actually use the written text as a source of recitation?
The course now keeps these two issues separate.