My son, who is 1 1/2 yrs old demands my attention almost every minute he is awake and does not like to be ignored. He gets quite upset when I perform salah and tries his best to get my attention at that time. He has now started to pull my headscarf off my head while I pray.

Today he managed to pull the whole scarf away. So I just put it back on and continued my prayer. This happened 2 more time during the prayer. I finally finished praying and performed sajda sahw.

Did I do right? was the prayer nullified when the headscraf ws pulled away? (and my hair was exposed). I also had to pick it up and put it back on, but I did not turn my face away from qiblah.

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If it is possible, i think it would be best to speak to a scholar regarding this Insha'Allah. Please remember that this is not a Fiqh Discussion Board, and we have no Scholars here. JazakAllah Khayr.

How does one contact a scholar?

You can either go to a near my masjid or you can post your question on Islam-qa.com.

I think I'll have to go with islam qa then, because we don't know our masjid imaam personally as we are new here.

Since I'm not familiar with islam qa, can anyone do a search for me and see if the naswer is already there in the archives. May Allah Reward you for your help.

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This is all I could find on the issue. Insha Allaah it helps

http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/5485/baby%20disturb

Firstly, I'd give a tiny advice: use Google when searching sites. I never get the results I want to see when I use their search engine, on Islam Q&A.

So, when you google, type the words you want to find, then site:islam-qa.com

Note, no space after :

Here's what I found on Islam Q&A, List of things that invalidate the prayer

May Allah Reward you both for your efforts.

Ameen, my respected sister, wa iyyaki...

Perhaps I shouldn't be posting my views here, but I cannot for the life of me believe that Allah would not accept salah performed by a woman who tries to observe her faith and be a good mother at the same time ...

You are doing your very best - surely Allah knows that and will honour it.

(Mods, please delete this post if I am speaking out of turn or am breaking forum rules ... Thank you.)

She's talking about salah, not du'a, which is more specific then prayer.

I know. (I will change the wording in my post to avoid confusion)
My view still remains the same though ...

Why would Allah look disapprovingly at a mother who is doing her best to care for her baby and perform salah in the appropriate manner - and not quite managing to do so perfectly?

I thought it was the intention which is the important thing?

It doesn't matter, keep praying through it.

Remember how The Prophet (saw) used to stop his salah, whenever a child was crying.

Keep praying through it, the cuteness of the child is a blessing not a burden.

Children are cute and innocent. Its not like he is doing it on purpose. I have a 10 month old son and whenever you walk away he cries and comes after you. So i think its perfectly fine. Our Prophet pbuh used to hold his grandson and pray in Jamaat