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Essentials of Islamic Prayer Explained

This document provides a complete description of the prayer in Islam with details on the obligatory, necessary, and recommended acts from beginning to end. It explains the postures and recitations required in each part of the prayer including standing, bowing, prostrating, and sitting. The document also outlines rules around valid and invalid acts in prayer, necessary and recommended recitations, and concludes with descriptions of the final salutations and supplemental prayers.

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Essentials of Islamic Prayer Explained

This document provides a complete description of the prayer in Islam with details on the obligatory, necessary, and recommended acts from beginning to end. It explains the postures and recitations required in each part of the prayer including standing, bowing, prostrating, and sitting. The document also outlines rules around valid and invalid acts in prayer, necessary and recommended recitations, and concludes with descriptions of the final salutations and supplemental prayers.

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{The Absolute

Essentials of Islam}
Faith, Worship, and Spirituality

Lesson Ten: Complete Description of the Prayer


Faraz Rabbani

Facing Qibla
Time
Covering
Nakedness

Intention Conditions

Purity

Opening
Invocation The Obligatory Acts
of Prayer

Final Sitting

Standing
Integrals

Prostration
Recitation
Bowing

Errors in Worship & their Consequence

Invalidating Not Invalidating

Leaving the obligatory (fard) Leaving the necessary (wajib) Leaving sunna and adab acts

Invalid: Obligatory to make up— Valid but Necessary to Repeat to


Valid, Not Repeated
as if unperformed Rectify

Unless: Forgetfulness prostrations—if


necessary action left forgetfully
Fatiha, in any two rakats

Extent of three verses—any two rakats

Obligatory Prayer
Making necessary recitation in first two
Necessary rakats
Recitation in
Prayer
Other Prayers Fatiha, in all rakats

Extent of three verses, in all rakats

Complete Description of the Prayer

Complete Description of the Prayer


with obligatory, necessary, and sunna
actions
from beginning to end

Before Beginning: Outward & Inward

Outwardly
Six Conditions: fulfill
Inwardly
Six Inward Equivalents

6
1-3: Standing, Raising, and Placing
Hands
One: Stand
Ruling—Specifying ‘Allahu Akbar’
Description of Standing
Two/Three: Raising Hands & Placing
Ruling
Description: men & women
Why different?
7

4-5: Opening Supplication & Seeking


Refuge
Four: Opening Supplication
Ruling—Time
Joining Late
Meanings
Five: Seeking Refuge
Ruling—for whom?
Meaning
8

6-8: Reciting One verse, in two


rakats
Obligatory
Recitation

Fatiha, in any two


Six-Eight: Reciting Qur’an rakats

Obligatory Recitation Obligatory


Prayer
Necessary
Recitation
Extent of three
verses, in any two
rakats

Necessary: Fatiha & Some Verses Recitation in


Prayer Making necessary
recitation in first two
rakats
Third Rakat Obligatory
Other
Recitation
Basmala Prayers One verse, in all
rakats

Necessary
The follower Recitation
Fatiha, in all rakats

When leading
Extent of three
verses, in all rakats
9
One verse, in two
rakats
Obligatory
Recitation

Fatiha, in any two


rakats

Necessary Extent of three


Obligatory verses, in any two
Recitation
Prayer rakats

Recitation in
Prayer Making necessary
recitation in first two
rakats

Obligatory
Other
Recitation
Prayers One verse, in all
rakats

Necessary
Recitation
Fatiha, in all rakats

Extent of three
verses, in all rakats

9-11: Bowing and Rising


Nine & Ten: Bowing
Ruling
Description: men—women
The Tasbih of Bowing
11: Rising from Bowing
Ruling
Context
11

12-15: Prostration & Sitting Between


Them
12-13: Prostration
Ruling
Description: men—women
The Tasbih of Prostration
14: Sitting Between Prostration
Ruling
Dhikr
15: Second Prostration
12
16-18: Second Rakat
16: Rising from Prostration
Ruling
17: Second Rakat
Differences with first
18: First Sitting
Ruling of first sitting
Reciting Tashahhud
13

19-20: Third and Fourth Rakats

19: Third & Fourth Rakats


Standing without delay
20: Recitation in Third &
Fourth Rakats
Obligatory Prayers
Other Prayers

14

21-24: Final Sitting and Salams


21: Final Sitting
Ruling—Reciting Tashahhud
22: Sending Blessings
Ruling—How?
23: Supplications
Ruling—Importance
24: Closing Salams
Ruling—Repeating—How?
15
Next Class
The Disliked and Invalidating Actions
Supplement: The Sunna Prayers

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