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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islamic Laws of Ayatullah Khui Congregational Prayers 1408. Offering obligatory prayers and especially the Five Daily Prayers in congregation is recommended and offering dawn, dusk and night prayers in congregation has been specially stressed on those persons, who live near a masjid or hear Azan being announced from it. 1409.

It has been stated in authentic narrations that the spiritual reward for congregational prayers is twenty-five times as much as that for prayers offered individually. 1410. It is not permissible to abstain from participation in congregational prayers on account of levity and it is not proper for one to abandon congregational prayers without a just excuse. 1411.

It is recommended that a person should wait in order to participate in congregational prayers, because congregational prayers it better in comparison to the prayers offered individually in the early part of the time prescribed for prayers. However, it is better to offer prayers individually at the recommended time as compared with the congregational prayers which is not offered during such time.

Furthermore, a comparatively brief congregational prayers is better than a long prayers which is offered individually. 1412. When congregational prayers is going to be offered, it is recommended for a person, who has already offered the prayers alone, to reoffer the prayers in congregational. And if it transpires later that his first prayers was void, the second prayers will suffice. 1413.

If the imam (leader) or the Mamum (follower) wishes to offer in congregation once again the prayers already offered in congregation, and even if there no probability of any flaw in that prayers, it is difficult to say that which prayers is in order, except when he offers the prayer again as an Imam; provided that there is a person among the followers who has not offered obligatory prayers. 1414.

If a person is so whimsical during prayers that it becomes the cause of invalidity of his prayer and gets rid of his whim only when he offers prayers in congregation, he should offer prayers in congregation. 1415. If a father or a mother orders his/her child to offer prayers in congregation, and if his failing to do so becomes the cause of their disobedience, congregational prayers becomes obligatory on him, but otherwise it is not obligatory. 1416.