HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU PERFORM SALAT?
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JUST ASKING..
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From the moment I wake up till the moment I fall asleep, which is coincidentally from sunrise to sunset. Sometimes I'm standing, sometimes sitting, and sometimes laying down during this time.
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Dear brother
We need to develop consensus on
1Nature of Salaat
2Times of the Salaat
3How to performRegards
Between 9-11 am I pray. And between 9-11 pm I pray. So thats twice a day. Total time for each is between 10- 15 minutes so total time for both is 20 to 30 minutes. Sometimes If I am tired or in a hurry i shorten it.
I start by standing and doing takbeer, then I recite 3 or 4 or 5 surahs. I might do some praising but usually I bow right after that. I praise and make supplications and then I stand up straight again. I then praise and do supllication again but a little shorter than i do when I bow. Then I bow again for the second time and do the same as the first time I bowed. Then I stand up straight and immediately prostrate to the ground as in Sujood. I praise and supllicate there too and then I lifet my head doing praising and supplicating for a short while(less than 30 seconds) then I prostrate my head as in sujood again as I did in my first sujood. I then lift my head up and do a short praising of God then I make salam and end it. It takes about 10-15 minutes most of it bowing. I face Mecca when I pray. Its what I find sustainable for me and what I find working. Other than this way i am never consistent. Nobody in my house notices this way since it looks similar to how Muslims pray and I pray always alone in my room.
I stick with this routine for the most part. if I am tired or in a hurry, I just do one bow then I do sujood right away. I want to stand more but I get tired and find bowing easier to maintain. I spend about a minute and a half on each sujood and about 2 to 3 minutes on each bow. It takes about 10 to 15 minutes. When i pray 5 times I end up not concentrating and just perform body actions and doing them in a hurry. I want to make it three times but I told myself to concentrate in these two first. I like taking my time and being consistent. I have done this for 3 months now and have only skipped maybe 2 or 3 prayers. If I slept early and woke up early morning then I just pray twice in the morning. I go Juma'a also becaus of family pressures. I hate the Khutba and usually end up not concentrating and when I pray there its so short that I end up saying very little.
I do not do any tashahud and do not read the fatiha except very ocassionally, I treat it like any other Surah.
I suplicate and praise alway on threes, meaning i repeat them three times. Suplicate I mean making dua'. I do them in threes and interchange between suplications and praisings all the time. Even If I am in a hurry or tired I at least stand, bow and make sujood and do salam.
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THE SUNNAH SPECIFY SALAT TO BE FIVE TIMES DAILY(OBLIGATORY)
HOWEVER SALAT CAN BE OBLIGATORY AND SUPERIGATORY
SO WHAT DO YOU REALY MEANIn the end it does not matter since the duration is usually the same regardless. Praying 5 times could be the Sunnah but I can not see how it can be obligatory. There is no proof of that anyways. Neither in the Koran or the Torah or the Gospel. And if praying a certain way is obligatory then explain to me this
2.177. It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness- to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular charity; to fulfil the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the Allah.fearing.
Also explain to me this
Qur?an 3113-115
- Not all them are alike Of the People of the Book
are a portion that stand (for the right) They rehearse
the Signs of Allah all night long, and they prostrate themselves
in adoration.
- They believe in Allah and the Last Day;
They enjoin what is right, and forbid what is wrong;
and they hasten (in emulation) in (all) good works
They are in the ranks of the righteous.
- Of the good that they do, nothing will be rejected of them;
for Allah knoweth well those that do right
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Dear brother
We need to develop consensus on
1Nature of Salaat
2Times of the Salaat
3How to performRegards
This will never ever happen (in the (near) future).
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I have a feeling nobody will answer the question how do you pray. There is a sensitivity about this.
Peace
It depends whether Munzir Ali means how many times do we personally pray or how many times one should pray.
From my understanding, I am currently praying at dawn, sunset and night. All on time. I also pray extra prayers anytime between dawn and sunset.God bless
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Peace
It depends whether Munzir Ali means how many times do we personally pray or how many times one should pray.
From my understanding, I am currently praying at dawn, sunset and night. All on time. I also pray extra prayers anytime between dawn and sunset.God bless
I mean personally!
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I pray five times..but I don't recite attahiyat because it includes the name of the prophet muhammed(PBUH)
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This isn't about sunnah. Even Abraham prayed. Did he follow the 'sunnah' of the prophet Mohammed?
DO YOU PERFORM THE SALAT OF IBRAHIM OR THE ONE THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD WENT TO COLLECT WHEN HE ASCENDING TO THE HEAVENS WHERE THE PROPHET MET OTHER PROPHETS AS HE ASCENDED THROUGH EACH OF THE SEVEN HEAVENS (MI'RAJ JOURNEY) hmm
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DO YOU PERFORM THE SALAT OF IBRAHIM OR THE ONE THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD WENT TO COLLECT WHEN HE ASCENDING TO THE HEAVENS WHERE THE PROPHET MET OTHER PROPHETS AS HE ASCENDED THROUGH EACH OF THE SEVEN HEAVENS (MI'RAJ JOURNEY) hmm
You mean that story with the flying unicorn and the fairies and the leprechaun?
Yeah I read about that in some book. Wasn't the Quran though -
You mean that story with the flying unicorn and the fairies and the leprechaun?
Yeah I read about that in some book. Wasn't the Quran thoughhey!, that story was in my 7th grade islamic studies textbook...I studied about it, though it's in hadhis! angel
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I have been grappling with this issue since I reverted three months ago- Pray three? Pray five? Pray two?
Personally, I think it?s about your intention.
I perform three ritual prayers-before sunrise, mid-afternoon, and at night.
11114 And you shall hold the communion at the two edges of the day, during the near parts of the night. The good deeds take away the bad. This is a reminder to those who remember.
I believe that Contact-Prayer is more than prayers but rather a way of life, and the actual ritual I carry with me throughout the day as a tool to acknowledge that I couldn't be doing/seeing/hearing or anything if it weren't by God's Grace. He should be honoured and remembered constantly for that. It?s impossible to do, but it?s worth a shot.
And this is why I pray three times--I know this verse is referring to three private times but for me living in a town where there is no mosque-prayer is a private because I am alone.
2458 O you who believe, let those who are committed to you by oath, and those who have not yet attained puberty, request your permission regarding three times before the dawn communion, and when you put off your attire from the noon time, and after the evening communion. These are three private times for you. Other than these times, it is not wrong for you or them to intermingle with one another. God thus clarifies the revelations for you. And God is Knowledgeable, Wise.
I've come to accept that submission is to trust and seek guidance from the One who Knows. My opinion is when divisions/modifications pollute a spiritual system, the contact-prayers are lost. Jews and Christians don't really have them-at least in their original form. The development of the hadiths and sects, I think first took its tool on the Salaat and infected other aspects of the system (eg. Hijab, Dogs being Haraam etc). It?s great that we?re all trying to learn.
Jeanne