Personal Prayer ( Du'a ) After Salah

PERSONAL PRAYER (DU`A) AFTER SALAH:When you have completed your Fard or Sunnah prayers, you may pray to Allah in your own words offering him praise, thanksgiving or asking him for forgiveness for yourself or other Muslims or your own dear and near ones. For this Du`a keep sitting after the obligatory prayers, hold up your hands near each other with...

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Salah on Specific Occasions

SALAH ON SPECIFIC OCCASIONS JUMU'AH (or Friday) Prayer Beside the daily Salah, the Friday prayer is also obligatory upon Muslim men. For Muslim women it is not obligatory, but is desirable if they are able to do so without upsetting their household work. The Friday Salah is offered in congregation on Friday at Zuhr time. First the Imam delivers a...

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Sunnah and Nafilah or Additional Prayer

SUNNAH AND NAFILAH OR ADDITIONAL PRAYER As you can see in the chart below, each Salah is composed of (a) Fard, the prescribed prayers, (b) Sunnah and (c) Nafilah or additional prayers. The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said these additional prayers before or after the prescribed (Fard) prayers. These are therefore recommended. The sequence of...

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Reading of Salah - 4

ASH-HADU AL-LA ILAHA IL-LAL-LAHUI bear witness to the fact that there is no deity but Allah. WA-ASH-HADU AN-NA MUHAMMADAN `ABDUHU WARASULUHI bear witness taht Muhammad is His slave and messenger. In a three raka`at (i.e. Maghrib) or four raka`at (like Zuhr, `Asr and `Isha) Salah you stand up for the remaining raka`at after Tashahhud. On the other...

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