مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ٣١٢ - Congregational Prayers
and he should act according to the obligation of a person offering prayers individually.
١٤٥٣. If a person is satisfied that if he
commences a surah or completes it, he will join the Imam in his bowing
provided that the surah is not very long, it is better for him to
commence the surah or to complete it, if he has already commenced it,
and if the surah is too long the obligatory precaution is that he should
not commence it, and if he has commenced it he should not complete it.
١٤٥٤. If a person is sure that if he recites the
surah he will join the Imam in bowing and if he recites the surah and
cannot join the Imam in bowing his congregational prayers is in order.
١٤٥٥. If the Imam is standing and the follower
does not know in which unit he is, he can follow him, but he should
recite Surah al-Hamd and surah with the intentionof complying with the
orders of the Almighty Allah, though he may come to know after that the
Imam was in the first or second unit.
١٤٥٦. If a person does not recite Surah al-Hamd
and surah under the impression that the Imam is in the first or second
unit and realizes after bowing that he was in the third or fourth unit
his prayers is in order. However, if he realizes this before bowing he
should recite Surah al-Hamd and surah and if he does not have sufficient
time for this he should recite only Surah al-Hamd and should join the
Imam in bowing and if.he cannot do so he should, on the basis of
obligatory precaution, make an intention of individual prayers.
١٤٥٧. If a person recites Surah al-Hamd and
surah under the impression that the Imam is in the third or fourth unit
and realizes before bowing or thereafter that hewas in the first or
second unit his (i.e. the followers) prayers is in order. and if he
realizes this while reciting Surah al-Hamd and surah it is not necessary
for him tocomplete them,
١٤٥٨. If a congregational prayers is established while a person