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Essentials of Islamic Prayer Practices

This document outlines the integrals and necessary actions of prayer in Islam. It discusses five integrals of prayer: 1) Standing, 2) Recitation, 3) Bowing, 4) Prostration, and 5) Final Sitting. It also outlines eleven necessary actions for valid prayer, including reciting certain passages and performing motions like prostrations the proper number of times. The document explains how integrals are required to make a prayer valid, while necessary actions are also required to make it sound without needing to be repeated. It aims to provide a complete description of prayer and its requirements.

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Essentials of Islamic Prayer Practices

This document outlines the integrals and necessary actions of prayer in Islam. It discusses five integrals of prayer: 1) Standing, 2) Recitation, 3) Bowing, 4) Prostration, and 5) Final Sitting. It also outlines eleven necessary actions for valid prayer, including reciting certain passages and performing motions like prostrations the proper number of times. The document explains how integrals are required to make a prayer valid, while necessary actions are also required to make it sound without needing to be repeated. It aims to provide a complete description of prayer and its requirements.

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{The Absolute

Essentials of Islam}
Faith, Worship, and Spirituality

Lesson Nine: Integrals and Necessary Actions


Faraz Rabbani

Facing Qibla
Time
Covering
Nakedness

Intention Conditions

Purity

Opening
Invocation The Obligatory Acts
of Prayer

Final Sitting

Standing
Integrals

Prostration
Recitation
Bowing

The Integrals
Standing

Recitation

The Integrals of
Bowing
Prayer

Prostration

Final Sitting

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The Integrals: 1. Standing

Obligatory for obligatory and


necessary prayers
Sunnas: superior—full reward
When excused?
Two levels of hardship

The Levels of Hardship

Slight hardship Undue hardship

No dispensation Basis for dispensation

Responsibility only to extent of


Entailed by moral responsibility
ability

The Integrals: 2. Recitation

The Obligatory Recitation: One


verse—two rakats
Other: Necessary
Why?
“Recite whatever is easy of the
Qur’an.” [Q. 73.20]

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The Integrals: 3. Bowing

Minimum: hands reach knees


Optimum: description
Why?
“Bow and prostrate” [Q. 22.77]

The Integrals: 4. Prostration

Minimum: place forehead—and what


is needed for it to be called a
‘prostration’
Optimum: description
Why?
“Bow and prostrate” [Q. 22.77]

The Integrals: 5. Final Sitting

Duration of Tashahhud
Tashahhud: necessary

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The Necessary and Sunna Acts

What if ommitted?
(1) Necessary Left: valid, but
unsound—rectify, within time
(2) Sunna Left: valid and sound, but
lost reward—no rectification

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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

Necessary Actions: 1-3


What:
(1) Reciting Fatiha
(2) Reciting Extent of Three
Verses
When:
In obligatory prayers: twice—
specifically, first two
In others: all rakats
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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

Necessary Actions: 4-7


(4) Prostrations
Obligation: twice for each rakat
Necessary: twice in each rakat
(5) Remaining motionless
The soul of prayer
(6) Sitting Extent of
Tashahhud
(7) Reciting Tashahhud
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Necessary Actions: 8-11


(8) Two salams
(9) Eid Takbirs
(10) Pronouncing recitation
Minimum—Followers don’t
(11) Imam recites loud in
loud prayers and quietly in
quiet prayers
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Valid and Sound Prayer
Valid Prayer
Fulfilling Conditions
Performing Integrals
(No Make Up Needed)
Sound Prayer
Performing Necessary Actions
(No Repeating Needed)
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Next: Lesson 10

Complete Description of the Prayer


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

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