{"id":2851,"date":"2022-06-10T18:55:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2022-06-10T18:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:55:28","slug":"optional-parts-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/06\/10\/optional-parts-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Optional Parts of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We continue\nwith the series on prayer by focusing this week on optional acts or Sunnah acts\nin prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we\ntalk on this topic, it is worth mentioning that there are many different sunnah\nacts in prayer and that there is difference of opinion on some of the acts\naccording to the four schools of thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reminder\ntoday is to just highlight the ones we should all be aiming to perform as part\nof the acts of Sunnah. It is not designed to provide anyone with an opportunity\nto do less because it falls into sunnah acts because as the Prophet SAWS said\nin a hadith:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pray as you see me pray<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so\ntoday\u2019s reminder is to talk of these acts. First are the wajibat acts and these\nare those which some schools of thought don\u2019t distinguish at all from mandatory\nacts. In other words, these shouldn\u2019t be missed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The imam\nreminded us of them and these are listed now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Takbir aka saying Allahu Akbar, i.e.\nAllah is the Greatest in the correct places during prayer. So we say Allahu\nAkbar at the start of the prayer, but to omit this in the other places is also\na mistake.<\/li><li>Reciting during Ruku, i.e. when hands\nare on knees and what we recite before we go into full prostration or sajda is\nalso something that can\u2019t be missed.<\/li><li>No prayer can be valid without\nTashahud, i.e. the part of the prayer where we sit. Even if we join\ncongregation part way through, we must complete this part of the prayer for it\nto be valid. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of\nus who sometimes mistakenly forget to recite something in prayer and remember\nit before the end of the prayer, it is recommended to perform two prostrations\nat the end of the prayer before you say the Taslim, i,e before you say salaam\nto the right and left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear\nbrothers and sisters, the next list consists of sunnah acts which are considered\nacceptable to omit although we ought to encourage one another to perform these\nas well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The imam\nlisted a few of these and they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To lift the hands when you are going\ninto Ruku or bowing. <\/li><li>To keep the eyes focused when\nstanding on the point of where you head will go when you go into sujood or\nprostration.<\/li><li>To put the right hand over the left\nwhen standing<\/li><li>To have a slight gap between your\nlegs when standing in prayer<\/li><li>To look right and left with salaam at\nthe end of the prayer as opposed to just looking right<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear\nbrothers and sisters, it\u2019s worth emphasisng again that with reminders such as\nthese, shaitaan will use this opportunity to move you away from your faith. By\nknowing the sunnah acts you may come across some in today\u2019s reminder that you\nmay have thought to be mandatory before, remember, it is the trick of shaitaan\nto try and convince you to lessen your prayers as that is the first step to try\nand stop you altogether. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t fall\ninto this trap and so if you are already performing a sunnah act of prayer that\nyou\u2019ve already established a habit of doing, don\u2019t change it now for the sake\nof time or convenience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final\nlist is of those sunnah acts of prayer which are to do with speaking during the\nprayer. The imam spoke of these and they are listed as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Once you first say Allahu Akbar and\nraise hands to begin prayer, the duas you recite and the authu part and the\nbismillah part is part of the Sunnah and is recommended as part of the sunnah.<\/li><li>When Sura Fatiha has finished, it is\nsunnah to say Ameen. Both opinions are valid on whether this is said loudly or\nquietly but it is sunnah to say it.<\/li><li>To recite some part of the Quran\nafter the Sura Fatiha has been read.<\/li><li>To do salawat, i.e. send Salaam upon\nthe Prophet in the final sitting part of the prayer.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside\nthis, there is also a sunnah obligation on the imam himself to recite the parts\nof the prayer he is responsible for in a loud audible manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear\nbrothers and sisters, today\u2019s reminder is designed to provide both a checklist\nof items that can be performed in order to perfect the salat further but\nalongside this it is also a reminder that for many of us, we are also\nperforming our prayers beyond the minimum and so let\u2019s work on this high\nstandard and aim to raise it even higher in our future prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue with the series on prayer by focusing this week on optional acts or Sunnah acts in prayer. Before we talk on this topic, it is worth mentioning that there are many different sunnah acts in prayer and that there is difference of opinion on some of the acts according to the four schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}