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The Rules on Prayer & Fasting

  • Prayer
    • Obligatory Prayers
    • Daily Prayers
    • The time for fajr prayer
    • The time for ẓuhr and ‘aṣr prayer
    • The Time of Maghrib/‘Ishā’ Prayer
    • Rulings regarding the Times of Prayer
    • Order among prayers
    • Mustaḥabb prayers
    • Rulings about the Qiblah
    • The Coverage of Clothes in Prayer
    • Conditions of a Place for Prayer
    • Rulings on masjids
    • Adhān and Iqāmah
    • Obligatory Acts in Prayer
    • Qunūt
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      Qunūt

       

      306. In all obligatory and mustaḥabb prayers, it is mustaḥabb to raise the hands and recite supplication in the second rak‘ah, after recitation of chapter al-Fātiḥah and the second chapter but before rukū‘. This action is called qunūt.
      307. In Friday prayer, qunūt is performed in the first rak‘ah before rukū‘ and in the second rak‘ah after rukū‘.
      308. In the prayers of ‘Īd of Fiṭr and ‘Īd of Aḍḥā, in the first rak‘ah, qunūt is performed five times and in the second rak‘ah, it is performed four times.
      309. In qunūt, any dhikr, supplication or verse of the Qur’an can be recited. One can suffice with reciting one salāwāt, subḥānallāh, bismillāh, or bismillāhir raḥmānir raḥīm; but it is better to recite the supplications which are mentioned in the Holy Qur’an, such as
      رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِی الدُّنْیَا حَسَنَةً وَفِی الآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ
      or dhikr transmitted from Imams (a) such as
      لا اِلَهَ اِلاّ اللهُ الحَلِیمُ الکَرِیمُ، لا اِلهَ اِلاّ اللهُ العَلِیُّ العَظِیمُ، سُبْحَانَ اللهِ رَبِّ السَّمَاوَاتِ السَّبْعِ وَ رَبِّ الْاَرَضِینَ السَّبْعِ وَ مَا فِیهِنَّ وَ مَا بَیْنَهُنَّ وَ رَبِّ الْعَرْشِ العَظِیمِ وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلهِ رَبِّ العَالَمینَ
      310. It is permissible to supplicate, ask Allah for forgiveness, and ask for needs in Farsi or any other language in qunūt.
      311. It is mustaḥabb to recite the qunūt aloud, but in the congregational prayer, if Imam of congregation hears the voice of ma‘mūm, it is not mustaḥabb.
    • Prayer’s Ta‘qīb (Mustaḥabb Supplications/Dhikr Recited after Prayers)
    • Translation of the Prayer
    • What Invalidates the Prayer
    • Doubts in Prayer
    • Sajdah of Inadvertence
    • Qaḍā’ of Forgotten Sajdah and Tashahhud
    • A Traveler's Prayer
    • Qaḍā’ Prayers
    • Hire Prayers
    • Qaḍā’ Prayers for Parents
    • Āyāt Prayer
    • Congregational Prayers
    • The Friday Prayer
  • Fasting
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