Which rakats are compulsory

Umer Moderator November 8, at pm. Please see: Discussion They are muakkadah as per Hanafi fiqh. Sponsor Ask Ghamidi Please sponsor Ask Ghamidi so that we can continue to provide and improve this community platform.

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Also whats this 'sunnah' and 'nafl' The sunnah prayers are voluntary not obligatory so wouldnt they be nafl too? Also, why do you say the 'salafi' and 'hanafi' as if the salafi are a madhab, what if a salafi is a hanafi?

The path is long but I hope we meet, After the grave and the Day, in paradise in bliss upon a reclined seat. A traveler traveling - travelled from shirk to tawheed, If I'm remembered for anything - let it be the Mercy I seek. Your Bro. Abu Hurayra, al-Habeshi.

And there's sunnah ghair mu'akkadah which he would read sometimes and not at others. As far as I know it's a sin to leave sunnah mu'akkadah without a valid reason. As for nafils, there's a lot of reward for reading but no sin for leaving them.

I read somewhere that we should read nafils as much as we can. That's because when we will be brought to account relating to our fardhs, Allah subhana wa ta'ala may not be pleased with how we offered them.

Then He will ask about our nafils, so that He may reward us for those. Allah is so kind and merciful. Last edited by Snowflake; at PM. Reason: i hate typos lol.

Last edited by Umar; at PM. I do the following: Fajr : 2 sunnah ; 2 fard Duhr: 2 sunnah ; 2 sunnah ; 4 fard ; 2 sunnah ; 2 sunnah the fire will not touch a person who prays 4 sunnah before and after duhr Asr : 2 sunnah ; 2 sunnah ; 4 fard Magrib : 3 fard ; 2 sunnah sometimes i add extra 2 sunnah Isha : 2 sunnah ; 4 fard ; 2 sunnah; witr The only obligatory ones as i understand is fard the rest are optional. With regards to nafl the ones you sit down to pray ; i don't offer these anymore.

The reason being i never saw any of the salaf in saudi offering them, only when i came back to england i saw my local muslim's partaking in them.

Last edited by HBot ; at AM. Knowledge seeker. Question: Can I just pray the obligatory prayers only and skip the non-obligatory prayers. Answer: Praise be to Allaah. Observing the naafil supererogatory prayers and offering them regularly is one of the greatest means of earning the love of Allaah and it brings Paradise and divine mercy.

My servant draws not near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have enjoined upon him, and My servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks.

Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him, and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant him it. I do not hesitate about anything as much as I hesitate about [seizing] the soul of My faithful servant: he hates death and I hate hurting him. Such a person will undoubtedly be successful, even though his persisting in not offering Sunnah prayers is something blameworthy for which his testimony is to be rejected.

But he is not sinning thereby, rather he will be successful and will attain salvation. And Allaah knows best. If it is sound then he will have succeeded but if it is not sound then he will be lost and doomed. Then all his deeds will be dealt with in like manner. Last edited by Musalmaan; at AM. Hadith: "The best of my community are my generation, and then those who follow them, and then those who follow them" [related by Imran ibn al-Husayn in Bukhari].

O Allah! Thee alone do we serve and to Thee alone do we pray and make obeisance and to Thee we flee and we are quick and we hope for Thy mercy and we fear Thy chastisement, for surely Thy chastisement overtakes the unbelievers. These Prayers are called Sunnat Prayers. Offering Sunnat Prayers is considered to be necessary by all jurists. The wilful neglect of Sunnat Prayers is censurable in the sight of Allah. Sunnat Prayers are:. These are called Nawafil Prayers or Nafl.

These are optional Prayers. Nawafil Prayers are as follows:. There are some other Nawafil Prayers which are mentioned later in this book. One may offer as many Nawafil Prayers as one wishes. However, Nawafil should not be offered during the forbidden times for Prayers.