This is the most comprehensive booklet around, at the moment, that offers complete guidance on how to pray correctly and gain the maximum from your prayers – salat.
INTRODUCTION:
Muslims were not the first to bow and prostrate in worship to Allah SWT, the Almighty.
- Copyright and Reproduction
- Opening Prayer
- Contents
- Contents (cont.)
- Contents (cont.)
- Foreword & Abbreviations
- Foreword & Abbreviations
- Introduction to Prayer
- Introduction (Cont)
- Introduction (Cont)
- Introduction (Cont)
- Types of Salat
- Types of Salat
- Conditions for Salat – Cleanliness
- Conditions for Salat – Place
- Conditions for Salat – Time for salat
- Conditions for Salat – Clothing, Qiblah
- Conditions for Salat (Focus, Forbidden times)
- Conditions for Salat (only Naf’l forbidden, Sutra)
- Conditions for congregational prayer (jam’aa)
- Congregational Salat (Positions in relation to Imam)
- Congregational Salat – Not Praying alone, child imam
- Congregational Salat – Imam , Straight rows, feet together
- Ablutions – Wudhu –Obligations, procedure
- Ablutions – Wudhu
- Ablutions – Wudhu -Thoroughness, Additional facility,
- Ablutions – Wudhu and Tayyamum
- Ablutions – Tayyamum
- Ablutions – Tayyamum – Procedure, Ghus’l
- Ablutions – Ghus’l
- Call for Prayer – Azan
- Call for Prayer – Azan – Listening to Azan dua after azzan
- Call for Prayer – Iqamat
- Call for Prayer – Iqamat, Filling the saffs in an orderly way
- Salat – Qiyyam, placement of hands, Opening duas
- Salat – Ta’awuz, Tasmi’ah
- Salat – Qiyyam (Standing position), Niyah
- Salat – Fatiha
- Salat –Amiin
- Salat Ruku (Bowing)
- Salat – Ih`tidal – Straightening up
- Salat – Sujjud – Prostration
- Salat – Sujjud, Jalsah
- Salat – Sujjud, 2nd Rakah
- Salat – Tashahud
- Salat – Tashahud
- Salat – Index raised and not moved for Tashahud, Duas to end salah
- Salat – Ending salah
- Salat – Qiyyam for 3rd Rakah, 3rd Rakah, 4th Rakah
- Du’as after Salat
- Du’as after Salat, Salat al-Witr’
- Dua Qúnút
- Salat – The importance of praying correctly
- Salat – Obligation of saying Bismillah before Fatiha & Fatiha
- Number of Rakat in salat – Five compulsory prayers
- Number of Rakat in salat – Faj’r salah
- Number of Rakat in salat – As’r salah, No Naf’l after As’r
- Number of Rakat in salat – Ma{rib salah, I’sha salah
- Table of rakat in salat
- Suras the Prophet (SAW) used to recite
- Suras the Prophet (SAW) used to recite
- Special Prayers – Jumu’a
- Special prayers – Jumu’a
- Special prayers – Jumu’a
- Special prayers – Jumu’a
- Special prayers – Tahajuud or Tarawih
- Special Prayers – Tarawih
- Special Prayers – Tarawih
- Special Prayers – Tarawih
- Special Prayers – Janazah
- Special Prayers – Janazah
- Special Prayers – Janazah
- Special Prayers – Janazah
- Special Prayers – Eid, When is Eid
- Special Prayers – No fasting on eid
- Special Prayers – Eid, Further proofs
- Special Prayers – Eid – The sighting of the new moon by one muslim is sufficient
- Special Prayers – Eid, Further proofs
- Special Prayers – Eid Preparations
- Special Prayers – Eid, Listening to Khutbah after salat
- Special Prayers – Eid, Additional Takbirs
- Special Prayers – Eid, Salatul Eid
- Special Prayers – Eid, Missing the salah, Khutbah
- Remembering the Spirit of Sacrifice for Eid ul Adha
- Special Prayers – Eid, Eid takbir before salah
- Special Prayers – Ishtikhara
- Special Prayers – Ishtikhara
- Special Prayers – Ishtikhara, Qas’r
- Special Prayers – Qas’r, Number of rakat
- Special Prayers – Qas’r, Rules for praying Qas’r
- Special Prayers – Qas’r, Distance, How long for?
- Special Prayers – Sahu (forgetfulness)
- Special Prayers – Sahu (forgetfulness)
- Arabiya
- Arabiya
- Conclusion
Whilst it is not possible to list all the benefits of salat here as the list would be inexhaustible, it is worthwhile remembering that salah is not an end in itself but a means to an end.
Now that, Insha Allah this little guide may have helped you (or not, for those who were fully-versed in their salat before) it is worth contemplating on the various revelations in the Quran when Allah SWT has purposefully instructed us that salah is not a complete act in itself until accompanied by various supplementary deeds:
Patience and perseverance
(2.153) O ye who believe! seek help with patient perseverance and prayer; for Allah is with those who patiently persevere.
Charity and praying in congregation
(2:43) And be steadfast in prayer; practise regular charity; and bow down your heads with those who bow down (in worship).
Prayer, Charity, Kindness to parents, needy, orphans
(2.83) And remember We took a covenant from the Children of Israel (to this effect): Worship none but Allah. treat with kindness your parents and kindred, and orphans and those in need; speak fair to the people; be steadfast in prayer; and practise regular charity. Then did ye turn back, except a few among you, and ye backslide (even now).
And the deeds get even more comprehensive with (2.177)
It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the Prophets; and giveth his wealth, for love of Him, to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor due. And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and time of stress. Such are they who are sincere. Such are the God fearing.
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Guide to Prayer Salat 